A/HRC/14/37 8. Welcomes the fact that 83 States have signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and eighteen States have ratified or acceded to it, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying the Convention as a matter of priority, as well as to consider the option provided for in articles 31 and 32 of the Convention regarding the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, with a view to its entry into force by September 2010; 9. Invites States to consider joining all efforts to share information on best practices and to work towards the early entry into force of the Convention with the aim of its universality; 10. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize, within existing resources, a one-day event to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Working Group; 11. Encourages the General Assembly to proclaim 30 August the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances; 12. Requests the Working Group to prepare a report for submission to the Human Rights Council at its sixteenth session on best practices on enforced disappearances in domestic criminal legislation based on inputs solicited from member States; 13. Also requests the Working Group to pay particular attention to the situation of women victims of enforced or involuntary disappearances through its activities; 14. Decides to continue consideration of the matter in conformity with its programme of work. 35th meeting 18 June 2010 [Adopted without a vote.] 14/11 Freedom of religion or belief: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief The Human Rights Council, Recalling General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981, in which the Assembly proclaimed the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, Recalling also article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 2, paragraph 2, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other relevant human rights provisions, Recalling further its resolution 6/37 of 14 December 2007 and other resolutions on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its resolutions 5/1 on the institution-building of the Council and 5/2 on the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, 1. Condemns all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, as well as violations of the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief; 28 GE.12-17781