Consultation: Linkages and synergies on the issue of violence against women and girls: Inter-governmental processes

Civil Society Section Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Consultation Linkages and synergies on the issue of violence against women and girls: Inter-governmental processes Deadline - 15 November 2012 Dear All, In preparation for a forthcoming report to the Human Rights Council (June 2013), OHCHR invites your contributions on the above topic, specifically in relation to the following three areas: (i) Empirical examples of effective synergies and linkages that currently exist on violence against women within the Human Rights Council (HRC), between HRC and other intergovernmental processes, and results from these synergies and linkages; (ii) Perspectives on possible opportunities for increased synergies/linkages between mechanisms. Examples should identify the particular areas (e.g. networking, info/knowledge sharing, reporting, communications, resource sharing, joint planning, etc.); and (iii) Challenges to achieving greater synergies/linkages, and suggestions of effective approaches for tackling these challenges. Please email submissions by 15 November 2012 to : registry@ohchr.org Unless otherwise requested, submissions will be made available on the OHCHR web-site.  On behalf of OHCHR's Women's Rights and Gender Section, you are invited to an informal consultation on the above-mentioned topic: 19 September 11:30-13:00 Room E-3025 Palais des Nations, Geneva Background Human Rights Council resolution 20/12 requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to "prepare, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, and present to the Human Rights Council, at its twenty-third session, recommendations on how to create and/or strengthen linkages and synergies between the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, and also with other relevant intergovernmental processes on the issue of violence against women and girls".

Best regards, Civil Society Section Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights  Tel. +41 (0) 22 - 917 - 9656 Visit our website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/CivilSociety.aspx