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women, its causes and consequences in the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on
the Status of Women.
14. The Division for the Advancement of Women and OHCHR will continue to
seek input and provide comments for reports to be submitted to intergovernmental
bodies and special procedures, as relevant, including the Special Rapporteur on
violence against women and other special procedures mandates. In responding to the
request of the Human Rights Council in its resolution 12/17, OHCHR will prepare a
thematic study on women’s equality before the law in close cooperation with the
Division, for submission to the Council at its fifteenth session. The Division will
continue to monitor progress with respect to integrating gender perspectives into the
work of intergovernmental and expert bodies and exchange information with the
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences and
other mandate holders, as relevant.
15. The Division for the Advancement of Women and OHCHR will exchange
information and cooperate on follow-up to any actions the Commission on the
Status of Women may take at its fifty-fourth session and any actions the Human
Rights Council may take in 2009, as relevant. The Division and OHCHR will
continue to exchange information and seek to collaborate in assisting the Human
Rights Council to integrate gender perspectives into its work, including during panel
discussions and side events, and OHCHR will regularly provide information about
the Council’s work programme and related documentation.
B.
Technical cooperation, advisory services and meetings
16. The Division for the Advancement of Women and OHCHR will continue to
improve timely information exchange and coordination on technical cooperation
activities, in particular by sharing plans for such activities, and will cooperate
whenever possible in such activities. Staff from each entity will be invited to
contribute to and participate in relevant workshops, as appropriate. In particular, the
Division and OHCHR will endeavour to strengthen cooperation in respect to support
to reporting by States parties under article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and follow-up to the concluding
observations of the Committee, in accordance with relevant recommendations by the
Committee. The Division will keep OHCHR informed of any relevant planned
activities with a view to involving OHCHR.
C.
Awareness-raising and outreach
17. The Division for the Advancement of Women will continue to provide
information on its website about all developments in the area of women’s human
rights, including a link to the WomenWatch portal. OHCHR will moderate a monthlong online discussion on “Women and human rights” starting in mid-January 2010
to contribute to the series of WomenWatch online discussions on specific critical
areas of concern, organized by the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender
Equality and coordinated by the Division. The outcomes of the online discussions
will provide inputs to the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of
Women and the 15-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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