A/HRC/9/28
page 27
(g) Enhancing efforts to provide concrete and practical concluding observations
addressed to States parties, taking into consideration views expressed during the constructive
dialogues with them;
(h) Harmonizing practices relating to the publication and reporting of responses by
States parties to concluding observations and comments made during the constructive dialogues
with a view to enhancing transparency;
(i) Considering harmonizing practices for inviting comments from States and other
stakeholders in the elaboration of general comments, including by publishing a single list of
general comments under consideration;
(j) For treaty bodies dealing with individual complaints, considering further ways of
improving their working methods in this regard;
(k)
Further enhancing emphasis on implementation and follow-up;
(l) Taking further measures to assist States parties upon their request with their
reporting obligations, and the preparation of common-core documents;
(m) Harmonizing efforts to consider the situations of some States parties whose reports
are overdue;
(n) Considering the development of harmonized working methods for the exchange of
credible and reliable information between the human rights treaty bodies and non-governmental
organizations and national human rights institutions in all parts of the world;
(o) Monitoring more effectively the human rights of women in their activities,
integrating a gender perspective throughout their work and assessing the effectiveness of those
efforts;
4.
Welcomes the holding of inter-committee meetings of human rights treaty bodies
twice annually to discuss issues of common concern, including improving and further
harmonizing the methods of work of the treaty bodies, and encourages those bodies to continue
this practice;
5.
Also welcomes the holding of regular meetings of treaty bodies with States parties,
and encourages the treaty bodies to continue this practice;
6.
Further welcomes the contribution to the work of the human rights treaty
bodies made by other United Nations bodies, and encourages the specialized agencies,
funds and programmes, other United Nations bodies, the various organs of the Council,
including its special procedures, the Advisory Committee, the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and the chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies to
continue to intensify this cooperation and improve communication and information flow to
improve further the quality of their work, including by avoiding unnecessary duplication;
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents