A/RES/58/148 6. Strongly encourages Governments to continue to support the role and contribution of civil society, in particular non-governmental organizations and women’s organizations, in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session; Calls upon Governments and all other relevant actors to continue to 7. integrate a gender perspective into the implementation of and follow-up to recent United Nations conferences, summits and special sessions and in future reports on this subject; Invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms 8. of Discrimination against Women 7 to include information on measures taken to implement the outcome of the twenty-third special session, as well as the Beijing Platform for Action, in their reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under article 18 of the Convention; Urges Member States to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the 9. United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, 8 in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and welcomes the imminent entry into force of that Protocol on 25 December 2003; 10. Invites Member States to submit, before 30 April 2004, responses to questionnaire of the Secretariat on the implementation of the Beijing Platform Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, in preparation for review and appraisal mandated in the multi-year programme of work of Commission on the Status of Women; 9 the for the the 11. Invites the Economic and Social Council to continue its efforts to ensure that gender mainstreaming is an integral part of all activities in its work and that of its subsidiary bodies, building upon agreed conclusions 1997/2 adopted by the Council on 18 July 1997,3 and in this regard welcomes the inclusion of the question of gender mainstreaming in its agenda, the consideration of annual progress made in gender mainstreaming and the attention given to the gender perspective in the outcomes of the substantive session of 2003 of the Council; 12. Encourages the Economic and Social Council to request the regional commissions, within their respective mandates and resources, to intensify efforts to build up a database, to be updated regularly, in which all programmes and projects carried out in their respective regions by organizations or bodies of the United Nations system are listed, and to facilitate the dissemination of information on such programmes and projects, as well as the evaluation of their impact on the empowerment of women through the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action; 13. Welcomes the contribution of the Commission on the Status of Women to the follow-up and review of the future implementation of the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, reaffirms that the Commission will continue to play a central role in this regard, and encourages Governments, the relevant specialized agencies, funds _______________ 7 Resolution 34/180, annex. Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III, and resolution 55/255, annex. 9 See Economic and Social Council resolution 2001/4. 8 3