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most recent of which is resolution 62/236 of 22 December 2007, in which the Assembly
reaffirmed that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the Assembly
entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters and reaffirmed the role
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
11/2. Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
10.
In subparagraph 12 (d) of draft resolution A/HRC/11/L.5 (orally revised and adopted as
resolution 11/2), the Council requested OHCHR to convene, in 2010, in cooperation with other
relevant entities of the United Nations system, an expert workshop to discuss specific measures
for overcoming obstacles and challenges that States may face in preventing, investigating,
prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, as well as
measures for providing protection, support, assistance and redress for victims, and requested it to
prepare, within existing resources, a summary report thereon to be submitted to the Council.
11.
To implement the activities called for by the Council in subparagraph 12 (d), an estimated
$172,800 would be required for the biennium 2010-2011, as follows: (a) under section 2
(General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Affairs and Conference Management), to
provide conference servicing ($110,800); (b) under section 23 (Human Rights), to provide for
the travel of 10 experts to attend the workshop ($60,400); and (c) under section 28 E
(Administration, Geneva), for conference servicing ($1,600). The requirements in support of the
activities have not been included in the proposed programme budget for the biennium
2010-2011. During the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, a determination will be
made in the revised estimates report on decisions taken by the Council on whether they can be
met from within the provisions proposed under the proposed programme budget for the
biennium 2010-2011.
11/3. Trafficking in persons, especially women and children
12.
In paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of draft resolution A/HRC/11/L.6 (adopted as resolution 11/3),
the Council:
(a)
Requested OHCHR to organize, within existing resources, and in close coordination
with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, a two-day
seminar aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges in the development of rights-based
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