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26. Collaboration in support of intergovernmental bodies will continue.
UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will seek input and provide
comments for reports to be submitted to intergovernmental bodies, and exchange
information and cooperate on follow-up to any actions taken by the Commission on
the Status of Women or the Human Rights Council. UN-Women and the Office of
the High Commissioner will exchange information and seek to collaborate in
assisting the Human Rights Council in integrating gender perspectives in its work,
including with respect to the universal periodic review process and the work of the
special procedures; and, more generally, UN-Women and the Office of the High
Commissioner will continue to support the Chair of the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Special Rapporteur on
violence against women, its causes and consequences, in respect of participation in
the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women. UN-Women, in
coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner, will also aim to facilitate
the participation of the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and
in practice in the sessions of the Commission. UN-Women will continue its
interaction and collaboration with the special procedures mandate-holders, including
the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice, the
Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. UN-Women
will continue its support in connection with the preparation of the 2013 thematic
report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women on States’ responsibility
regarding due diligence in relation to violence against women. UN-Women looks
forward to working with the new mandate-holder, the Special Rapporteur on Truth,
Justice and Reparation, to ensure women’s access to comprehensive justice for
conflict-related crimes. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will
update and develop their databases, websites and knowledge tools in relation to
women’s human rights. At the regional level, UN-Women and the Office of the High
Commissioner will continue to cooperate closely, together with UNICEF and UNDP,
on providing support to the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection
of the Rights of Women and Children and the ASEAN Intergovernmental
Commission on Human Rights and their secretariats.
IV. Recommendations for new and strengthened modalities for
cooperation between UN-Women and the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
27. A joint workplan has been prepared annually on the basis of resolutions on
mainstreaming women’s human rights (Commission on the Status of Women
resolutions 38/2 (1994) and 39/5 (1995)) and on integrating the human rights of
women throughout the United Nations system (Commission on Human Rights
resolution 1997/43 (1997) and Human Rights Council resolution 6/30 (2007)).
These resolutions emphasize the importance of coordination and cooperation in
respect of women’s human rights, and the integration of women’s rights and a
gender perspective throughout the work of the United Nations system.
28. The decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 64/289, to establish
UN-Women brought into being a new entity with unique mandates which span
intergovernmental and normative support and inter-agency, policy and operational
work and include country, regional and global programming, strategic partnership
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