6. Notes General Assembly resolution 50/170 of 22 December 1995, in which the Assembly welcomed the emphasis by the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies that the enjoyment of the human rights of women should be closely monitored by each treaty body within the competence of its mandate; 7. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to provide any relevant material it receives or prepares, through the Centre for Human Rights, for the information of the treaty bodies in their work; 8. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to continue to develop methodologies to analyse gender perspectives in the reports of the States parties that are being considered by the treaty bodies; 9. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences through the automatic and regular exchange of information and by forwarding expeditiously any relevant material it receives or prepares on violence against women; 10. Emphasizes the need to develop and enhance the role of focal points on the human rights of women, in both the Centre for Human Rights and the Division for the Advancement of Women, and to ensure cooperation and coordination between the two bodies on an ongoing basis; 11. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Human Rights to explore the possibility of providing training in the human rights of women and of training personnel in the Division for the Advancement of Women in general human rights matters; 12. Encourages the efforts made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within the mandate established by General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, to promote and protect the human rights of women, including his efforts to coordinate the activities of relevant United Nations organs, bodies and mechanisms dealing with human rights in considering violations of the human rights of women; 13. Emphasizes the need for all relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations system to include information on gender-based human rights violations in their activities and integrate the findings into all of their programmes and activities; 14. Urges States to consider the gender composition of the treaty bodies when nominating and electing candidates to such bodies; 15. Emphasizes the need for the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education to incorporate a gender perspective into all its activities and the importance of drafting the mid-Decade report and the final report on the Decade so as to include mainstreaming of the human rights of women, ensuring that the evaluation criteria of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for those reports include whether the human rights of women are a mainstream concern; 16. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-first session, in 1997, on the implementation of the present resolution; -22-