62 HANDBOOK FOR NHRIs ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY and Beijing Platform for Action. It also provides opportunities to promote and facilitate implementation of regional human rights commitments, including those made by the OSCE participating States. Questions to consider ? Does the NHRI make use of the increasing recognition and new opportunities in the Human Rights Council to engage on women’s rights and gender equality? ? How does the NHRI promote the adequate inclusion of women’s rights and gender equality in state reports to treaty bodies, in stakeholders reports to treaty bodies and in its own submissions? ? Does the NHRI attend pre-sessions or sessions of the CEDAW Committee, the Committee on the Status of Women or other forums? ? Does the NHRI include training on women’s rights and gender equality when building the capacity of civil society actors to prepare shadow reports? ? In what ways does the NHRI engage with special procedures? Which special procedures are most relevant to the human rights situation? To what extent are women’s rights and gender equality reflected in the engagement? 6.2 THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL NHRIs have increasing opportunities to play an active role in the Human Rights Council. Since 2007, NHRIs with A-status accreditation from the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), as well as regional and international coordinating bodies of NHRIs, have been able to make oral statements under all agenda items of the Human Rights Council, submit documents and take separate seating in all sessions.38 In 2011 and 2012, the Human Rights Council adopted resolutions on NHRIs which further increased opportunities for participation by NHRIs, including by providing A-status NHRIs the opportunity to: 38 Institution-Building of the United Nations Human Rights Council, A/HRC/RES/5/1, adopted by the HRC on 18 June 2007.