Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society

Reference links from Chapter 8: Submitting a complaint on an alleged human rights violation

• Complaints under the human rights treaties:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/petitions/individual.htm
  
  
• Communications under the special procedures:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/communications.htm
  
  
• The Human Rights Council’s complaint procedure:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/complaints.htm
  
  
• Information on human rights treaty bodies
  http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx
  
  
• Information on special procedures
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/index.htm
  
  
• Information on complaint procedure under Human Rights Council
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/complaints.htm
  
  
• Standard questionnaires for reporting alleged violations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/detention/docs/WGADQuestionnaire_en.doc
  
  
  - Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/WGEID%20submission%20formAp06.doc
  
  
  - Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/mercenaries/docs/formwg.doc
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/executions/complaints.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/opinion/complaints.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/docs/mmig-quest.doc
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
  http://www.unhchr.ch/children/contact.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/torture/rapporteur/model.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/trafficking/questionnaire.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapporteur/complaints.htm
  
  
  - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/defenders/complaints.htm
  
  
• The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/advisorycommittee.htm