A/HRC/19/53 law-makers; lawyers, legal advocates, and members of the judiciary; law enforcement authorities; housing authorities and administrative personnel; gender ministries; and those engaged in the development and/or implementation of land policy and/or land reform. 74. States should actively promote women’s right to adequate housing so as to ensure that women know what this right entails, as well as what services are available locally to assist them in claiming this right. States should also ensure that women have access to affordable or no-cost legal aid, which can assist them to seek justice when their right to adequate housing is violated. 75. The Special Rapporteur encourages the Committees on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to provide continued normative advice on women’s right to adequate housing, including on issues related to inheritance, land and property, and to pay special attention to conceptual tensions between the immediate obligations of States to ensure women’s right to equality and the “progressive realization” obligation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Special Rapporteur also encourages the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to adopt a general recommendation on women’s right to adequate housing, including issues related to inheritance, land and property. 76. The Special Rapporteur encourages the recently established UN-Women to incorporate, in all its areas of work, support for initiatives aimed at protecting women’s rights to adequate housing. In particular, the Special Rapporteur encourages UN-Women: (a) To provide technical cooperation and support to Member States in order to ensure that women are able to exercise and enjoy their right to adequate housing; and (b) To strengthen its partnership with civil society so as to contribute to the effective implementation and monitoring of human rights norms on women and adequate housing. 77. The Special Rapporteur encourages the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice to document best practices with respect to women and the right to adequate housing, within the scope of its mandate to promote and exchange views on best practices related to the elimination of laws that discriminate against women or are discriminatory to women in terms of implementation or impact. The Special Rapporteur also encourages the Working Group to make recommendations for the improvement of housing legislation and its implementation, within the scope of its mandate to contribute to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Goal 3 on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. 20