A/HRC/23/25 to the mandate of the Council.21 The draft declaration on the right to peace22 calls on States to revise national laws and policies that are discriminatory against women, and to adopt legislation that addresses domestic violence, the trafficking of women and girls and genderbased violence. The draft declaration on human rights education and training 23 notes that education contributes to preventing violations, including violence against women. 24 The final study on traditional values dedicates a chapter to the impact of traditional values on vulnerable groups with a particular focus on women and minorities. 25 Similarly, the study on the promotion of human rights of the urban poor specifically analyses the situation of women and girls.26 In its study on rural women and the right to food, the Committee analysed patterns of discrimination harming rural women, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. 27 D. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Forum on Minority Issues 13. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its studies and reports to the Council has highlighted multiple discrimination faced by indigenous women and girls in several areas of life including the right to culture, education and the right to participate in decision-making.28 For the first four sessions of the Forum on Minority Issues (2008-2011) the sole recommendation which made an explicit mention of the issue of violence against women emanated from the fourth session, on guaranteeing the rights of minority women, although each session included women’s human rights language.29. E. Universal Periodic Review 14. One of the 13 basic principles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as set up in paragraph 3(k) of Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 is the full integration of a gender perspective in the process. This would entail a gender-sensitive consultation process when preparing the national report, as well as the consideration of all gender-related issues, including gender-based violence. 15. UPR has made a considerable number of recommendations to States on women’s human rights and specifically on the issue of violence against women and girls. During the 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 6 The eight thematic issues are: human rights education and training; right to food; missing persons; leprosy-related discrimination; right to peace; human rights and issues related to terrorist hostagetaking; traditional values; and enhancement of international cooperation. See Article 4 (5)(c) “Report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the right of peoples to peace, 2012 (A/HRC/20/31). A/HRC/WG.9/1/2. Report of the Advisory Committee on its fourth session, Geneva, 25-29 January 2010 (A/HRC/AC/4/4), para. 15. Study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind (A/HRC/22/71). Study of the Advisory Committee on the promotion of human rights of the urban poor: strategies and best practices (A/HRC/22/61). Final Study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on rural women and the right to food (A/HRC/22/72). Expert Mechanism advice No. 1 (2009) on the rights of indigenous peoples to education is annexed to A/HRC/12/33. United Nations Forum on Minority Issues Compilation of Recommendations of the First Four Sessions 2008 to 2011, paras. 24 and 25, p. 50.