A/HRC/19/31 E/CN.6/2012/12 B. Human rights treaty bodies 7. In its capacity as supporter of the work of human rights treaty bodies, the Office of the High Commissioner facilitates inputs from UN-Women, including through exchange and dissemination of information on the human rights treaty system. The Chair and members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women met with the Executive Director of UN-Women in February 2011 to discuss issues of common concern and ways to establish an effective framework for future collaboration and coordination, with a view to increasing awareness of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1 and furthering progress in achieving gender equality and ensuring women’s rights. In this regard, both the Committee and UN-Women have appointed focal points to consider practical ways to further their cooperation. 8. UN-Women has provided technical and other support to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in its work on elaborating a general recommendation on the protection of women in conflict and post-conflict situations and worked in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner on organizing the general discussion of the Committee on the topic during the Committee’s forty-ninth session in July 2011. The Deputy Executive Director, Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships Bureau, of UN-Women, delivered an opening address at the general discussion. 9. The Deputy Executive Director also addressed the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women during its forty-ninth session. At the same session, UN-Women, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), conducted a lunchtime briefing on the gender-equality dimensions of HIV/AIDS, in furtherance of the joint mandate of UN-Women and UNDP, under the UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, to provide support to countries in reporting on how the HIV epidemic is affecting women and girls, and in implementing the Committee’s concluding observations. Further, UN-Women briefed the Committee on its 2011 publication entitled “Progress of the world’s women 2011-2012: in pursuit of justice”. UN-Women regularly invites experts from the Committee to participate in expert group meetings and side events convened in conjunction with intergovernmental processes. C. Human rights special procedures 10. UN-Women continued its interaction with special procedures mandate holders, which are supported by the Office of the High Commissioner. Moreover, UN-Women is collaborating closely with the newly established Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice. The Executive Director of UN-Women held a meeting with some members of the Working Group in June 2011 and two representatives of UN-Women participated in the second session of the Working Group, held in October 2011. UN-Women maintained contact and interaction with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and __________________ 1 11-63199 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. 5