So my name is Charles Rackliffe and I'm working with the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations Human Rights Office, where I'm responsible for global human rights issues but with a special focus on the human rights of lesbian's gays, bisexuals and transgender people. So the resolution that was adopted at the Human Rights Council in June 2011 was the first ever UN resolution adopted that explicitly recognised that people who are gay or lesbian by sexual or transgender are susceptible to human rights violations, whether it's violence or discrimination because of their sexual orientation or the gender identity. It expressed grave concern about that but it also asked the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report which will be out in a few weeks and it will be the first ever official mandated UN report on this issue. Collecting evidence of violence, discriminatory laws and discriminatory practices that affect people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. But what I think we'll be able to do with this report is to set out in a comprehensive way the ways in which people are vulnerable to human rights violations because of their sexuality or their gender identity but also the responsibilities that states have in terms of protecting people from those violations. Responsibilities that exist in international human rights law. So the report will set out the legal framework, it will gather together a lot of evidence about the ways in which people's rights are being violated and it will set out clear recommendations to member states of the UN to say here are the things that you need to do as states in order to meet your obligations under international law and set those tasks out and put it to the Human Rights Council as the UN's peak body on human rights to take up the issue and to ensure that in future people's rights are better protected. I think it is crucial to make sure that this isn't a one-off discussion. The report that we'll be producing shortly does demonstrate I think that there is a systematic pattern of violations directed at people because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity. It requires a response at multiple levels certainly from states they have a clear legal responsibility but also from the intergovernmental bodies, from the United Nations Human Rights System and from the Human Rights Council. One of the things we found is that the information on these violations has not been systematically regularly collected and brought to the attention of the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council. It would be I think logical as a follow-up to this to discuss how in future that information gap can be closed and how the Human Rights Council and other intergovernmental bodies who have a responsibility in this respect can keep themselves better informed and more regularly informed.