A/HRC/23/25 (f) Encourage relevant special procedures to engage with the Team and to take into account its role and engagements in formulating recommendations. IV. Recommendations 51. The Human Rights Council has increasingly devoted attention to the issue of violence against women and girls. Because of the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, as well as other thematic special procedures, the annual full day discussions on women’s rights and ensuing resolutions, the work of the Advisory Committee and some of the thematic reports submitted by OHCHR, the Council has analysed in depth dimensions of violence against women and has elaborated on States obligations resulting from the due diligence standard, successful strategies as well as existing obstacles inhibiting progress towards the elimination of violence against women and girls. 52. It is important that the analysis and recommendations produced by the Human Rights Council’s thematic work on violence against women and girls are fully embedded in the Council’s efforts to promote States’ accountability and full implementation of human rights obligations. To this end, the Council may wish to consider the following recommendations: (a) Ensure that violence against women is adequately addressed in countryspecific special sessions and ensuing resolutions, as well as other country-specific resolutions, including those renewing or establishing special procedures mandates. (b) Explicitly address violence against women in resolutions establishing commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions and encourage these bodies to devote specific attention to violence against women and gender-based violence in their reports and recommendations. (c) Encourage consultations and collaboration between geographic special procedures and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women. (d) Encourage all special procedure mandate holders, both thematic and geographic, to devote specific attention to women’s rights and violence against women during their country-missions, including by ensuring regular meetings with women groups and women’s rights defenders. (e) Encourage greater focus on violence against women in inter-active dialogues with geographic mandate holders. (f) If and when country-specific mandates are given to thematic procedures, give adequate consideration to the inclusion of the Special Rapporteur and other relevant mandates, as appropriate. (g) Promote consistent and comprehensive attention to violence against women in the context of the universal periodic review, in line with the Human Rights Council’s thematic work on the issue. In particular, beyond the manifestations of violence, it is recommended that its root causes and the responses provided by the State, be brought to the fore of the dialogue. 53. It is also crucial to continue to advance the analytical and thematic work of the Human Rights Council on violence against women. In this respect, the Council may consider the following recommendations: 17