Refugees, while promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness through better
coordination of the various bodies, mechanisms and procedures, taking into
account the need to avoid unnecessary duplication and overlapping of their
mandates and tasks:
(a)
Give full, equal and sustained attention to the human rights of women
in the exercise of their respective mandates to promote universal
respect for and protection of all human rights - civil, cultural,
economic, political and social rights, including the right to
development;
(b)
Ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the World
Conference on Human Rights for the full integration and mainstreaming
of the human rights of women;
(c)
Develop a comprehensive policy programme for mainstreaming the human
rights of women throughout the United Nations system, including
activities with regard to advisory services, technical assistance,
reporting methodology, gender-impact assessments, coordination, public
information and human rights education, and play an active role in the
implementation of the programme;
(d)
Ensure the integration and full participation of women as both agents
and beneficiaries in the development process and reiterate the
objectives established for global action for women towards sustainable
and equitable development set forth in the Rio Declaration on
Environment and Development; 18/
(e)
Include information on gender-based human rights violations in their
activities and integrate the findings into all of their programmes and
activities;
(f)
Ensure that there is collaboration and coordination of the work of all
human rights bodies and mechanisms to ensure that the human rights of
women are respected;
(g)
Strengthen cooperation and coordination between the Commission on the
Status of Women, the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission for
Social Development, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the United
Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies, including the Committee
on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the United
Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations
Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other
organizations of the United Nations system, acting within their
mandates, in the promotion of the human rights of women, and improve
cooperation between the Division for the Advancement of Women and the
Centre for Human Rights;
(h)
Establish effective cooperation between the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees and other relevant bodies, within their respective
mandates, taking into account the close link between massive
violations of human rights, especially in the form of genocide, ethnic
cleansing, systematic rape of women in war situations and refugee
flows and other displacements, and the fact that refugee, displaced
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