A/HRC/28/31 75. Information sharing between the United Nations human rights system and regional human rights mechanisms should be continuous, consistent and systematically channelled through the OHCHR focal point coordinator, in order to share, inter alia, decisions, recommendations, best practices, reports, calendars of activities and programmes of visits. Alignment of processes and cross-referencing would result in more coherent and targeted decisions and recommendations being addressed to States. 76. There is a need to enhance cooperation between the special procedures of the United Nations and of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights for optimum exploitation of the opportunities provided by the Addis Ababa road map. There should be annual consultations between the two bodies to assess the implementation of the road map. 77. Good practices, such as desk-to-desk cooperation and the Addis Ababa roadmap on cooperation, should be used as examples for other regions. 78. Annual meetings and monthly teleconferences between focal points would enable exchange of information and facilitate the planning of common activities. Focal points should be provided with adequate resources to effectively carry out their tasks. 79. The United Nations human rights system and regional human rights mechanisms should encourage the gathering of statistics for monitoring human rights at the national level. Such statistics, particularly human rights indicators, would help the human rights mechanisms to formulate concrete and measurable recommendations, particularly with regard to the economic, social and cultural rights of women and persons with disabilities. 80. Implementation of decisions and recommendations emanating from the United Nations human rights system and regional human rights mechanisms, including regional judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, should be followed up and shared through the focal points on cooperation. To that end, meetings of regional and subregional human rights courts should be held periodically. The first such meeting should be convened by OHCHR in 2015, with the participation of regional courts and the United Nations treaty bodies, on the enforcement of judgements, access to courts, human rights defenders, deprivation of liberty and freedom of expression. 81. Regional human rights mechanisms should advocate increased mainstreaming of the economic, social and cultural rights of women, and insist on the obligation of States to respect, protect and fulfil women’s right to equality in the Sustainable Development Goals. 82. Regional human rights mechanisms should advocate the elimination of legislation that is discriminatory to women, in order to secure the opportunity of women to fully and meaningfully participate in all aspects of economic and social life, and tackle structural barriers which restrict women’s lives and choices. 83. The United Nations human rights system and regional human rights mechanisms should engage in joint activities to sensitize States about ratifying international and regional human rights instruments and to promote access to judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. National human rights institutions and civil society should be considered as reliable partners in assessing and reporting on the human rights situation in their respective countries. 84. There should be more cooperation and interaction between United Nations treaty bodies and regional bodies including judicial mechanisms. Some sessions of the treaty bodies, particularly the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, should be held in different regions in order to facilitate interaction and give visibility. 15