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enable stakeholders to address violence against women, including the Handbook for
Legislation on Violence against Women 4 and the Supplement to the Handbook for
Legislation on Violence against Women: “Harmful Practices against Women”. 5
III. Joint workplan for 2012
21. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to
cooperate in the promotion of gender equality and the realization of women’s human
rights. They will continue to cooperate within the framework of inter-agency
mechanisms, including the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality
and the Global Migration Group, among others. UN-Women and the Office of the
High Commissioner will continue their work on creating gender-sensitive guidance
on reparations for conflict-related sexual violence. The Office of the High
Commissioner and UN-Women will also continue working together to follow up on
the recommendations of treaty bodies, mandates of special procedures and the
universal periodic review as these relate to women’s human rights.
22. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner are also planning to
collaborate in the creation of guidance on gender-responsive transitional justice
mechanisms, as mandated by the Policy Committee in the context of the seven-point
action plan to promote gender-responsive peacebuilding. Both entities will continue
to cooperate, with a view to ensuring that United Nations system guidance on
country programming advances women’s human rights, for example, through
participation in the United Nations Development Group’s Human Rights
Mechanism. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will cooperate
and exchange information in support of the work of human rights treaty bodies and
enhanced mainstreaming of gender perspectives into their work. UN-Women will, in
particular, continue to support the work of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, including in relation to the elaboration of its general
recommendation on the protection of women’s human rights in conflict and postconflict situations, among others. UN-Women and its partners will present a briefing
to the Committee on the gender-equality dimensions of HIV and AIDS during its
fifty-first session. In addition, UN-Women, together with UNDP and UNAIDS, have
established a Task Force which will work closely with the Committee in identifying
practical measures to be taken to strengthen their relationship, including in terms of
follow-up and implementation of the Committee’s concluding observations related
to the gender dimensions of HIV and AIDS.
23. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will participate in the
United Nations country teams, joint programmes, theme groups and other forums at
the country and regional levels, with a view to promoting equality between women
and men and the realization of women’s human rights, and supporting
implementation of the major international human rights instruments. UN-Women
and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to engage in a wide range of
activities aimed at supporting countries in implementing their obligations under the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
including support for reporting provided, for example, to several countries in the
South-East Asia region, whose reports are soon to be considered by the Committee.
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