A/HRC/23/25 45. The Secretary-General submits an annual report on women, peace and security and an annual report on conflict-related sexual violence70 to the Security Council. These reports and ensuing recommendations and Presidential Statements have increasingly included calls on States and parties to conflict as well as the international community to take measures to prevent and stop gender-based violence and hold perpetrators accountable. Country reports submitted by peace missions and country recommendations have also increasingly referred to the situation of women and to gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence. 46. The set of indicators proposed by the Secretary-General to monitor the implementation of resolution 1325,71 include an indicator on the “extent to which violations of women’s and girls’ human rights are reported, referred and investigated by human rights bodies” in countries on the agenda of the Security Council. Data for this indicator is drawn, inter alia, from the work of the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council. 47. Resolution 1888, inter alia, established the mandate of the Special Representative on conflict-related sexual violence to lead and coordinate efforts to end sexual violence in armed conflict. The resolution encourages cooperation between the Special Representative on conflict-related sexual violence, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Representative on conflict-related sexual violence among others, to provide additional briefings and documentation on sexual violence in armed conflict to the Council.72 Informal consultations have taken place regularly between the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and the Special Representative on conflict-related sexual violence. Also, through the secretariats of the two offices, regular exchanges of information are taking place on country situations, including in connection with visits, as well as the preparation of inputs into the Secretary-General’s reports.73 The Special Representative participated as a panellist at the 2011 annual full day discussion on women’s rights at the Human Rights Council. 48. Paragraph 8 of resolution 1888 calls upon the Secretary-General to take measures to identify and deploy a Team of Experts “to situations of particular concern with respect to sexual violence in armed conflict” in order “to assist national authorities . . . to strengthen the rule of law.” The Team was established in early 201174 with the appointment of a Team 70 71 72 73 74 August 2011 to July 2012. The report finds that general trends in the Council show significant development, including in the language and expertise on women, peace and security in resolutions, more expertise available to deploy in terms of gender advisors and a more sophisticated understanding of the key issues at the root of this agenda. However, the report finds that there is still a significant disconnect between the content of reports received by the Council, meetings the Council holds, and resolutions it adopts: of 82 country situation reports analysed, 52, or 63%, address women, peace and security; concerning Security Council’s meetings, of the 97 relevant debates or briefings, 52 meetings, or 54%, contained reference to women, peace and security issues; of the 15 presidential statements on country situations, only 3, or 20%, addressed women, peace and security issues; and 30 out of 48, or 63%, of the relevant resolutions adopted by the Security Council referenced the women, peace and security agenda. A complete list of the annual reports submitted by the Secretary-General to the Security Council on women, peace and security and on sexual violence in conflict can be accessed at http://www.un.org/sg/#. S/2010/498. Security Council Resolution 1888 (2009), 30 September 2009, para. 24. The Special Representative has identified the following priority countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, South Sudan and Sudan (Darfur). Within the broader objective of strengthening the rule of law, the Team of Experts: (a) works closely with national legal and judicial officials and other justice system personnel to address impunity; (b) 15