Recalling that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 8/ is a key international human rights instrument for the promotion and protection of women’s human rights, and acknowledging both its codifying and innovating functions, Noting the important roles that the Commission on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women have to play in making the general human rights work of the United Nations more gender conscious and in promoting the universal and indivisible human rights of women, Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 13/ as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/45 of 6 March 1994 on integrating the rights of women into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, 14/ in which the Commission decided to appoint, for a three-year period, a Special Rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and its consequences; 1. Stresses the importance of cooperation and coordination between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on Human Rights to ensure that the United Nations human rights mechanisms address on a regular basis violations of women’s human rights and that the Commission on the Status of Women regularly takes stock of that integration process while carrying out its central role of monitoring activities relating to the status of women; 2. Emphasizes the need to develop and enhance the role of focal points on women’s human rights, both in the Centre for Human Rights and in the Division for the Advancement of Women, and to ensure cooperation and coordination between the two bodies on an ongoing basis; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to see to the preparation of a joint workplan on women’s human rights for the Centre for Human Rights and the Division for the Advancement of Women on an annual basis and to inform both the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on the Status of Women at their annual sessions, beginning in 1995, of these plans; and to promote the mutual availability of documentation, as well as the development of a public information strategy; 4. Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Human Rights to explore the possibilities of organizing training in women’s human rights, inter alia, by exchange of personnel, so that human rights officers can be trained in women’s rights issues and the personnel in the Division for the Advancement of Women can be trained in general human rights matters; 5. Recommends that the regular meetings of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies consider on a regular basis the issue of mainstreaming women’s human rights, with a view to promoting coordination and cooperation between the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the other treaty bodies, especially in the field of information exchange and coordination of their reporting guidelines; 13/ General Assembly resolution 48/104. 14/ Official Record of the Economic and Social Council, 1994, Supplement No. 4 (E/1994/24), chap. II, sect. A. -12-