A/52/477 English Page 21 88. The Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 1997/43 of 11 April 1997 entitled "Integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations" also encouraged the strengthening of cooperation and coordination among all human rights treaty bodies, special rapporteurs, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the Commission and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and requested that they regularly and systematically take a gender perspective into account in the implementation of their mandates, including information and qualitative analysis in their reports on violations of the human rights of women. 89. This year, the communications concerning women related to Afghanistan, Indonesia and Iraq. In order to obtain more information, and in particular sources of information on the question "women and religion", especially women victims of intolerance and discrimination based on religion and belief, and to contribute to the promotion of the rights of women, the Special Rapporteur intends to pay particular attention in future to the status of women from the perspective of religion and hopes to receive cooperation from States and non-governmental organizations in this respect. C. Strengthening of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur 90. As indicated in previous reports, an increase in the human, financial and technological resources assigned to the mandate is essential both to ensure the credibility of the activities of the Special Rapporteur and the United Nations and for the sake of human rights. 91. The initiatives taken by States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in the sphere of freedom of religion and belief make a useful contribution to the implementation of the mandate on religious freedom. 92. The Special Rapporteur emphasizes the development of initiatives and activities that help, directly or indirectly, to protect and/or promote religious freedom and to combat all forms of discrimination and intolerance based on religion and belief. In that connection, he wishes to single out not only the activities relating to research and publications, but also the contribution made by computerized scientific networks to the protection and promotion of religious freedoms. 93. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur wishes to thank the States, non-governmental organizations and individuals acting in a personal capacity that have participated in various ways in the activities relating to the mandate. /...