Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Tready Bodies In submitting information pursuant to the reporting process, it is recommended that organisations do the following:391 – Keep track of when reports are due. – Submit information in a timely fashion to ensure that Committee members have time to digest it. – Submit information with factual, reliable, precise and clear information. – Give necessary contextual background information to supplement the State’s core document if necessary. – Structure information around the provisions of the treaty, and/or the LoIPR (see Section just above) and/or thematic issues. – It is highly advisable to submit an executive summary (1 to 3 pages), including a list of the main recommendations, in English, at the beginning of the report, if the report is written in French or in Spanish, since this is the prevailing working language among the members of the Committees. – Refer to the previous Concluding Observations of the Committee and, if relevant, to Concluding Observations, reports, statements issued by other UN treaty bodies and special procedures, as well as by regional human rights mechanisms. – Refer to any previous individual complaints against the State party submitted to the Committee, or to other international human rights mechanisms, if relevant. – However, information should not contain names of victims except if related to cases already in the public domain or if the consent of the victims or their families is obtained. – Comment on the State report itself, and present additional important information including relevant concerns and recommendations. Do not respond to every point made by the State; focus only on important points. – Use concrete examples and statistics. – Suggest questions that the Committee might ask of the State party representatives. – Make constructive suggestions and/or recommendations for improvement within a State party. 391 Giffard (2000), pp. 72–75. For further guidance for the HRC, see CCPR Centre, NGO Guidelines on the Reporting Process, available at: http://ccprcentre.org/doc/CCPR/Handbook/CCPR_Guidelines%20 for% 20NGOs_en.pdf. For NGO engagement with CAT, go to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/ CAT/Pages/NGOsNHRIs.aspx. 130