A/71/398 Istanbul Convention and that, therefore, the signing and ratification of other regional conventions on violence against women are another mechanism to strengthen State obligations and raise them to the international level. The adoption, in the inter-American region, of the Inter-American Convention and the subsequent establishment of the committee of experts brought the problem of violence against women to the forefront of international debates on human rights for the first time. To achieve the same impact at the global level, the committee of experts proposes to support the creation of a protocol as a supplementary instrument to reinforce and promote what was already established under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. By incorporating the principle of supplementarity into the text itself, protocols establish the obligation of States parties to enact legislation to control violence against women on the basis of the important international conventions already approved, as has occurred with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Approval of the protocol would strengthen the work done by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, especially its general recommendation No. 12 (1989) on violence against women and No. 19; the provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; and the work of the Special Rapporteur on vi olence against women, its causes and consequences, who has the mandate to investigate and report on all aspects of violence against women. It will also promote the Inter -American Convention and the Istanbul Convention, without weakening the implementation of those treaties and without contravening the provisions of other regional conventions on the subject. The committee of experts notes that it is working on a draft model comprehensive law for the prevention, punishment and eradication of violence against women for 2017. 18. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights stresses the importance of dialogue with special procedures mechanisms in order to strengthen the development and effective implementation of human rights standards around the world. It recalls the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women and indicates that, in several judgments, it has reiterated its compulsory jurisdiction to address violations of article 7 of the Inter-American Convention regarding the protection of women from violence. The Court notes that it has developed a significant body of case law of all forms of violence against women and relevant international standards on sexual violence, as well as on violence against women as a form of torture. It also provides, as an addendum, a list of its relevant judgments on gender issues. C. Group of experts of the Council of Europe on action against violence against women and domestic violence 19. The group of experts of the Council of Europe on action against violence against women and domestic violence, which has recently been set up and is yet to begin evaluating the level of implementation of the Istanbul Convention, recalls the three regional instruments on violence against wo men and women’s rights, namely, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of 16-16456 7/24