REPORTING TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES TRAINING GUIDE: Part I — Manual Structure of the Common Core Document I. General information on the reporting State 1. Demographic, economic, social and cultural characteristics of the State 2. Constitutional, political and legal structure of the State II. General framework for the protection and promotion of human rights 3. Acceptance of international human rights norms 4. Legal framework for the protection of human rights at national level 5. Framework within which human rights are promoted at national level - National and regional parliaments and assemblies - National human rights institutions - Dissemination of human rights instruments - Raising human rights awareness among public officials and other professionals - Promotion of human rights awareness through educational programmes and Government-sponsored public information - Role of civil society, including non-governmental organizations - Budget allocations and trends - Development cooperation and assistance 6. Reporting process at national level - Follow-up to concluding observations of human rights treaties 7. Other related human rights information - Follow-up to international conferences III. Information on non-discrimination and equality and effective remedies State parties should submit the CCD only once, and they should update it regularly, usually every five years, or whenever major changes in the country take place. A Treaty Body may also request that the CCD be updated if it considers that the information it contains is out of date. Updates may be submitted in the form of an addendum to the existing CCD if only a few changes need to be incorporated, or a newly revised version if many changes have been made.31 State parties can submit the CCD at the same time as or independently of a treaty-specific report. It always remains a separate document but is transmitted to all relevant Treaty Bodies for upcoming reviews. Practical details as to how reports should be submitted can be found in Section 4.2.1 (vii). ÎÎFor examples of Common Core Documents, click here or consult OHCHR website at http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/CoreDocuments.aspx Treaty-specific reports, submitted under the Standard Reporting Procedure, should include the information requested by the relevant Treaty Body in its most current reporting guidelines for State parties (see below the excerpt from the reporting guidelines of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights). The reporting guidelines are available on the website of each committee at the following: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx. 36 31 HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, para. 27.