A/HRC/19/2 (c) To make recommendations, consistent with her or his mandate, that could help the realization of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Goal 7; (d) To take into account the results of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in June 2012, and to contribute a human rights perspective to follow-up processes; (e) To apply a gender perspective by, inter alia, considering the particular situation of women and girls and identifying gender-specific discrimination and vulnerabilities; (f) To work in close coordination, while avoiding unnecessary duplication, with other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Human Rights Council, relevant United Nations bodies and the treaty bodies, taking into account the views of other stakeholders, including relevant regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and academic institutions; (g) To submit a first report, including conclusions and recommendations, to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session and annually thereafter; 3. Requests the High Commissioner to ensure that the Independent Expert receives the resources necessary to enable him or her to discharge the mandate fully; 4. Calls upon all States, United Nations agencies, other relevant international organizations and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and national human rights institutions to cooperate fully with the Independent Expert, and invites them to share best practices with the Independent Expert and to provide him or her with all the necessary information relating to the mandate to enable him or her to fulfil the mandate; 5. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to participate in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in order to promote a human rights perspective; 6. Decides to continue its consideration of the matter under the same agenda item at its twenty-second session. 53rd meeting 22 March 2012 [Adopted without a vote.] 19/11 Rights of persons with disabilities: participation in political and public life The Human Rights Council, Recalling the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their rights and freedoms without discrimination, Reaffirming also all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons with disabilities, the most recent of which was resolution 16/15 of 24 March 2011, and welcoming the efforts of all stakeholders to implement those resolutions, Reaffirming further the right to participate in political and public life, as set out in article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that everyone has the 36 GE.13-14768

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