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18. Encourages the human rights treaty bodies to continue to identify specific possibilities for
technical assistance, to be provided at the request of the State concerned, in the regular course of their
work of reviewing the periodic reports of States parties;
19. Recalls the recommendation by the meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies
that treaty bodies urge each State party to translate, publish and make widely available in its territory the
full text of the concluding observations on its reports to the treaty bodies;
20. Welcomes the contribution to the work of the human rights treaty bodies made by the specialized
agencies and other United Nations bodies, and invites the specialized agencies, other United Nations
bodies and the treaty bodies to continue to pursue further cooperation between them;
21. Notes that efforts continue to be made at coordination and cooperation between the human rights
treaty bodies and the special procedures, rapporteurs, representatives, experts and working groups of the
Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities, all acting within their respective mandates;
22. Recognizes the important role played by non-governmental organizations in all parts of the world
in the effective implementation of all human rights instruments, and encourages the exchange of
information between the human rights treaty bodies and such organizations;
23. Recalls, with regard to the election of the members of the human rights treaty bodies, the
importance of giving consideration to equitable geographical distribution of membership and to the
representation of the principal legal systems and of bearing in mind that the members shall be elected and
serve in their personal capacity and shall be of high moral character and recognized competence in the
field of human rights;
24. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report prepared pursuant to the present
resolution a detailed explanation of the basis for the payment of honoraria to the members of the human
rights treaty bodies and suggestions to improve coherence in this regard;
25. Encourages the Economic and Social Council, as well as its functional commissions and their
subsidiary bodies, and other United Nations bodies and the specialized agencies to consider the feasibility
of participation by representatives of the human rights treaty bodies in their meetings;
26. Welcomes the continuing emphasis by the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies that
the enjoyment of the human rights of women should be monitored closely by each treaty body within the
purview of its mandate, and, in this regard, endorses the request of the persons chairing the human rights
treaty bodies that the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat prepare a study, for use
by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the treaty bodies, analysing what each
treaty body has done to incorporate gender perspectives into its work and making practical suggestions
about what each could do to further incorporate gender perspectives;12
27. Also welcomes all appropriate measures the human rights treaty bodies may take, within their
mandates, in response to situations of massive human rights violations, including bringing those violations
12
A/52/507, annex, para. 62.
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