A/HRC/14/39 62. This operationalization is inherently a large process requiring systematization and is currently without a clear lead within the United Nations system. Without doubt, there is much good practice that States and other actors can helpfully share, ensuring that such good practice relates specifically to the implementation of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality and morbidity. While the universal periodic review is one forum for such sharing, there is much scope at this time for good practice to be collected in a systematic and thorough fashion. Implementation and monitoring of such an operational framework are also necessary; however, they have not been a priority at the international level. The Council could spearhead efforts to move forward on such implementation and monitoring activities. 63. As discussed earlier, of all the Millennium Development Goals, Goal 5 is the furthest from being realized. Despite efforts to reduce maternal mortality globally, very little progress has actually been made in the last 20 years. Given this, there is clearly much scope for the Council to make constructive and effective contributions to the global effort to eliminate maternal mortality and morbidity through its mandate to promote and protect human rights. There are a number of recommended options for the Council’s consideration relating to promoting a human rights-based approach to addressing preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. The options presented below are not mutually exclusive, but rather reinforce one another. In the short term, such steps could include making a contribution in relation to the human rights dimensions of maternal mortality and morbidity to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in September 2010 reviewing the progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and forwarding the present study for the attention of the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly. Such steps would be consistent with the Council’s mandate of mainstreaming human rights within the United Nations system. 64. Additional steps the Council could take would be to further the operationalization of a human rights-based approach to maternal mortality and morbidity. This could involve, as an initial step, the collection of good practices from States and other actors as to addressing maternal mortality and morbidity from a human rights perspective. Such a compilation of good or effective practice would be an important and necessary contribution or foundation for an expert consultation cohosted by relevant United Nations agencies that would look at the operational aspects of a rights-based approach to maternal mortality and morbidity in greater detail. The outputs of such a large-scale consultation could be presented to the Council for its consideration. 65. As a final step, while there is already much ongoing inter-agency dialogue and collaboration within the United Nations (and Bretton Woods) systems on the issue of maternal mortality and morbidity, there is further scope for work on the human rights dimensions of this topic to be strengthened through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) participation in this dialogue and collaboration, particularly with UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank. Such participation would allow OHCHR to assist this collaboration by offering human rights expertise and at the same time would also allow for the building of OHCHR capacity in this area through the interaction with agencies having a range of specialized technical expertise in maternal mortality and morbidity. 22 GE.10-12949