A/HRC/23/25 educational fields.58 It plays a central role in monitoring the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women. 33. As part of its mandate and methods of work, the Commission has considered the issue of violence against women and related issues several times as a priority theme (1998, 2003, 2007 and 2013). The Commission has also considered particular aspects of violence against women, for example in the context of discrimination and violence against the girl child, as the priority theme in 2007 and as the review theme in 2011. Generally, the Commission considers violence against women in relation to its recent priority themes59 and reflects the issue in its agreed conclusions on those priority themes. 34. Since 2009, the Commission has also covered questions of violence against women in resolutions, including those on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), ending FGM (2010), maternal mortality and morbidity (2010, 2012), women in natural disasters (2012), release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts (2010, 2012), and indigenous women (2012). 35. The priority theme of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission is “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls”. The Secretary-General’s reports prepared for the session focuses on prevention, and on multisectoral services and responses.60 Among other sources, they reference the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and other relevant special procedures. 36. As mandated by the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur presents an oral report to the Commission and will serve as a panellist on one of the two panels of the Commission on the priority theme at its fifty-seventh session. 37. The Commission has a confidential complaint procedure which is designed to identify emerging trends and patterns of injustice and discriminatory practices against women, and which the Commission considers as part of its annual programme of work. 61 Following consideration by the Commission, the report of the Working Group on communications on the status of women is included in its annual report to the Economic and Social Council. Violence against women, its causes, consequences and manifestations are regularly identified as a pattern by the Working Group. C. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 38. The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is mandated by the Economic and Social Council and tasked with setting out global strategy to prevent crime and promote fair and effective criminal justice systems. 62 It formulates international policies and recommends activities in the field of crime control. The Commission offers 58 59 60 61 62 12 The Commission also prepares resolutions for consideration by the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly on issues such as, inter alia, ending female genital mutilation. Also, during its fifty-sixth session, the Commission adopted resolutions on “release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts,” ECOSOC E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 and Corr.1. The priority themes were “Equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS” (2009); and “Access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work” (2011). See E/CN.6/2013/3 and E/CN.6/2013/4. For additional information on this procedure: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/communications_procedure.html. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CCPCJ/index.html?ref=menuside.