A/RES/55/90 adequate administrative support and better access to technical expertise and relevant information; (b) Calls upon the Secretary-General to seek, in the next biennium, the resources within the regular budget of the United Nations necessary to give the human rights treaty bodies adequate administrative support and better access to technical expertise and relevant information without diverting resources from the development programmes and activities of the United Nations; (c) Welcomes the plans of action prepared by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enhance the resources available to all the human rights treaty bodies and thereby strengthen the implementation of the human rights treaties, and encourages all Governments, United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, non-governmental organizations and interested persons to consider contributing to the appeal for extrabudgetary resources for the treaty bodies made by the High Commissioner until the regular budget funding meets their needs; 6. Encourages ongoing efforts to identify measures for more effective implementation of the United Nations human rights instruments; 7. Takes note of the measures taken by each of the human rights treaty bodies to improve their functioning, as reflected in their respective annual reports, and encourages continuing efforts by the treaty bodies and the Secretary-General to assist States parties in meeting their reporting obligations and to reduce the backlog in the consideration of reports by the treaty bodies; 8. Welcomes the continuing efforts by the human rights treaty bodies and the Secretary-General aimed at streamlining, rationalizing, rendering more transparent and otherwise improving reporting procedures, and encourages the Secretary-General, the treaty bodies and the persons chairing the treaty bodies at their next meeting 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 States parties, including through an ongoing examination of proposals for reports focused on a limited range of issues, the harmonization of the general guidelines regarding the form and content of reports, the possibility of consolidating overdue reports, the timing of consideration of reports and the methods of work of the treaty bodies; 9. Calls upon the Secretary-General to complete as soon as possible the detailed analytical study comparing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 9 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 9 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 10 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 11 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 12 and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 13 which is being prepared with a view to identifying duplication of reporting required under those instruments; 10. Urges States parties to contribute, individually and through meetings of States parties, to identifying practical proposals and ideas for improving the functioning of the human rights treaty bodies; 9 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 11 Resolution 34/180, annex. 12 Resolution 44/25, annex. 13 Resolution 39/46, annex. 10 3