A/RES/51/87 Page 3 (c) Requests that the Secretary-General report on this question to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-third session and to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session; 4. Welcomes the continuing efforts by the treaty bodies and the Secretary-General aimed at streamlining, rationalizing, rendering more transparent and otherwise improving reporting procedures, and urges the treaty bodies and the meetings of persons chairing the treaty bodies to continue to examine ways of reducing the duplication of reporting required under the different instruments, without impairing the quality of reporting, and of generally reducing the reporting burden on Member States; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a detailed analytical study comparing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,5 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,5 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,6 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,7 the Convention on the Rights of the Child8 and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,9 with a view to identifying duplication of reporting required under these instruments; 6. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in accordance with his mandate, to encourage the independent expert to finalize his interim report on possible long-term approaches to enhancing the effective operation of the human rights treaty system10 in time for the final report to be considered by the Commission on Human Rights, as requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 48/120 of 20 December 1993, at its fifty-third session; 7. Urges States parties to contribute, individually and through meetings of States parties, to identifying and implementing ways of further streamlining, rationalizing, avoiding duplication in and otherwise improving reporting procedures; 8. Expresses concern about the increasing backlog of reports on the implementation by States parties of United Nations instruments on human rights and about delays in consideration of reports by the treaty bodies; 9. Also expresses concern about the large number of overdue reports under the United Nations instruments on human rights, and again urges States parties to make every effort to meet their reporting obligations; 5 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 6 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 7 Resolution 34/180, annex. 8 Resolution 44/25, annex. 9 Resolution 39/46, annex. 10 A/CONF.157/PC/62/Add.11/Rev.1. /...