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.
The Guide also refers to tools to facilitate civil society follow-up activities. It is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The new the Practical Guide for civil society on how to follow up on United Nations human rights recommendations describes methods and activities that civil society actors can use to promote the implementation of human rights recommendations as well as existing follow-up procedures and practices of UN human rights mechanisms and how civil society can participate.
Complemented by real experiences contributed by civil society actors and OHCHR field presences, the Guide offers a menu of options from which civil society actors can select on the basis of their own priorities and capacity.
The Guide is being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. The High Commissioner for Human Rights will launch the Guide in an event in Geneva to which you are invited. The launch will take place on Friday 29 November from 16.00 to 17.30 in Palais des Nations, room XXIII, Geneva.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The office was established by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 1993 in the wake of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights.
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