• The treaty bodies should continue to develop
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, as well as the United Nations
Development Fund for Women, the International
Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, the United Nations
Development Programme, the United Nations
Children's Fund and other United Nations funds
and programmes;
working methods that facilitate communications
between non-governmental organizations, treaty
bodies and the States parties;
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights is commended for establishing a
gender team for studying, within the mandate of
the Office, the human rights of women; the team
should be given the necessary support by the most
senior levels of management and decision-making to
carry out its work effectively;
• Cooperation, communication and exchange
of expertise should be enhanced between the
Commission on the Status of Women and other
functional commissions of the Economic and Social
Council, including the Commission on Human
Rights, in order to more effectively promote
women's human rights;
• Specialized agencies and other bodies of the United
Nations system, as well as other international
financial and national trade organizations, should
develop innovative ways of integrating the promotion of women's enjoyment of their human rights
in all their policies and programmes. ■
• The treaty bodies within their mandates should con-
tinue to promote a better understanding of the rights
contained in international human rights instruments
and their particular significance to women;
• Given the importance of general comments in
clarifying the provisions of human rights treaties,
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women is invited to draw up joint general
comments with other treaty bodies, within their
respective mandates, on the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human
rights and should discuss these and other collaborative activities at the annual chairpersons meeting;
Source: United Nations document E/1998/27
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