A Practical Guide for Civil Society: How to follow up on United Nations human rights recommendations
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This Guide, issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), focuses on how civil society can follow up on recommendations of United Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms and mandates or bodies. Readers who are not already familiar with the main features of these mechanisms are invited to refer to OHCHR’s Handbook for civil society – Working with the United Nations human rights programme and its Practical Guides for civil society.
Sections 1 – 3 of this Guide explain ‘follow-up’ and ‘implementation’, while section 4 describes methods and activities that civil society actors (CSAs) can use. Section 5 reviews existing follow-up procedures and practices of UN human rights mechanisms and how CSAs can participate.
The Guide also refers to tools to facilitate civil society follow-up activities.
These are listed in section 6.
By reviewing a variety of follow-up methods and activities complemented by real experiences, kindly contributed by CSAs and OHCHR field presences, the Guide offers a menu of options from which CSAs can select on the basis of their own priorities and capacity.
This Guide is primarily intended for CSAs working at the national level.
It is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.