Further recognizes the significant contribution of the Council of Europe to the development of international standards for the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality and for combating sexual and gender-based violence, including domestic violence, in all its forms, online and offline, and takes note of recommendation CM/Rec(2024)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on equality of Roma and Traveller women and girls, the 2023 guidelines for member States on the place of men and boys in gender equality policies and in policies to combat violence against women, its regular and active participation in the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women and the agreed and targeted cooperation between the Council of Europe and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the United Nations Population Fund, which includes support to member States, upon their request, in implementing commitments on gender equality and women’s rights and the promotion of the Gender Equality Strategy of the Council of Europe, notes in this context the adoption by the Committee of Ministers of the Gender Equality Strategy for 2024–2029, takes note of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention) and invites States that have not yet done so to consider signing or ratifying it, in this context encourages the above-mentioned bodies to continue to develop a specific and fruitful collaboration in eliminating sexual and gender-based violence, including with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and to achieve gender equality, recognizes the contribution of the Convention and of the monitoring activities carried out by the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and by the Committee of the Parties to the Convention, as well as the role of the Council of Europe technical cooperation programmes in eradicating this scourge, and also recognizes the important role of parliamentarians in ensuring the efficient implementation of existing standards;