A/HRC/12/46 page 8 19. In light of the OHCHR commitment to the integration of gender and women’s rights, a Women’s Rights and Gender Unit was established at the end of 2006. The work of the unit includes elements related to the Office’s capacity to ensure adequate support on gender and women’s rights to the Human Rights Council, and particularly to its special procedures. 20. At the first gender integration panel discussion of the Human Rights Council, held on 20 and 21 September 2007, OHCHR expressed the view11 that stakeholders need to pursue a dual approach for the United Nations system: redoubling the mainstreaming effort throughout the system on the one hand, and providing support to the entities in the system in charge of gender issues, on the other. Integration requires both a process for the whole system as well as a dedicated United Nations entity with the mandate and resources to promote the rights of women. In this regard, there is great expectation around the enhanced, consolidated gender architecture that is being discussed with Member States at United Nations Headquarters. 21. In resolution 6/30 the Council welcomed cooperation between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Council, and the cooperation and coordination between the Division for the Advancement of Women, OHCHR and the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues. 2. Prevention and resolution of conflicts and peacebuilding 22. More specifically, resolution 6/30 also urges the United Nations system and Governments to make efforts to ensure and support the full participation of women at all levels of decision-making and implementation in development activities and peace processes, including conflict prevention and resolution, post-conflict reconstruction, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Security Council resolutions 1820 (2008) and 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security provide guidance for needed action at the United Nations and governmental level in this regard. 23. Challenges to the practical implementation of resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008)12 remain, both at the level of the United Nations and in national contexts. While discrimination against women remains entrenched, and often legally permissible, women will continue to be 11 The presentation of the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights may be found at www.ohchr.org. 12 Such challenges are outlined in the recent study by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) on women’s participation in peacebuilding, at www.unifem.org/ news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=753.