A/RES/56/144 Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with a view to withdrawing them; 9. Takes note with appreciation of the annual reports of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth 7 and fifty-sixth 8 sessions, and takes note of General Comments Nos. 27, 9 28 10 and 29 6 adopted by the Committee; 10. Welcomes the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its twentieth and twenty-first sessions 11 and on its twenty-second, twentythird and twenty-fourth sessions, 12 and takes note of General Comments Nos. 11, 13 12, 14 13 15 and 14 16 adopted by the Committee; 11. Urges States parties to fulfil in good time such reporting obligations under the International Covenants on Human Rights as may be requested and to make use in their reports of gender-disaggregated data, and stresses the importance of taking fully into account a gender perspective in the implementation of the Covenants at the national level, including in the national reports of States parties and in the work of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 12. Calls upon States parties that have not yet submitted core documents 17 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to do so, and invites all States parties regularly to review and update their core documents; 13. Urges States parties to take duly into account, in implementing the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights, the recommendations and observations made during the consideration of their reports by the Human Rights Committee and by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the views adopted by the Human Rights Committee under the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 14. Invites States parties to give particular attention to the dissemination at the national level of their reports submitted to the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the summary records relating to the examination of those reports by the Committees and the recommendations and observations made by the Committees after the examination of those reports; 15. Urges all States to publish the texts of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil _______________ 7 Ibid., Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/55/40). Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/56/40). 9 Ibid., Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/55/40), vol. I, annex VI A. 10 Ibid., annex VI B. 11 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum (E/2000/22 and Corr.1). 12 Ibid., 2001, Supplement No. 2 (E/2001/22). 13 Ibid., 2000, Supplement No. 2 and corrigendum (E/2000/22 and Corr.1), annex IV. 14 Ibid., annex V. 15 Ibid., annex VI. 16 Ibid., 2001, Supplement No. 2 (E/2001/22), annex IV. 17 See HRI/CORE/1 and addenda. 8 3