Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Tready Bodies political and legal structure, and other general information.362 The same core document can suffice for reports to all UN human rights treaty bodies. The core document should be updated when necessary. A State report is a public document, and is available via the treaty bodies’ website at http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx. This website also details the dates at which future reports are due. For further details on the reporting process, it is recommended to visit the websites of the HRC363 and the CAT Committee.364 In its initial report, a State party should outline how it implements the rights in the respective treaty. It should give details of relevant legislation, policies, and practices. It is not sufficient to simply outline legislation without commenting on how, or if, that legislation is enforced. It should also highlight areas where implementation is deficient or problematic.365 Once a report is submitted, a dialogue between the State’s representatives and the relevant Committee regarding the contents of a report and other matters relating to its record on compliance with the relevant treaty will be scheduled. In terms of process, the Committee will analyse the report, upon which a list of issues (LoI) will be drafted, generally by the member(s) of the Committee appointed as country rapporteurs or a country report task force, which will then be adopted in plenary in the session ahead of the State party’s report.366 Subsequently, the State party will reply to the LoI in writing and, in addition, it will send a delegation to Geneva to engage in an interactive constructive dialogue with the Committee at the session within which the examination of the report will be conducted. The adoption of the LoI, in the session prior to the examination of the State party report, allows, on one hand, the Committee to ask for the clarification and update of certain issues and, on the other, provides time and guidance to the State party for the preparation of the discussion with the Committee, taking into account 362 UN Fact Sheet No. 15, Rev. 1, “Civil and Political Rights: The Human Rights Committee”, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/sheets.htm, p. 11. See also Guidelines for the treaty-specific document to be submitted by States parties under article 40 of the ICCPR, (2010) UN Doc. CCPR/C/2009/1. 363 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CCPR/Pages/CCPRIndex.aspx. 364 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/CATIndex.aspx. 365 See UN Fact Sheet No. 15, Rev. 1, “Civil and Political Rights: The Human Rights Committee”, pp. 10–12 for instructions on how a State should prepare a report, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/ english/about/publications/sheets.htm. See also Guidelines for the treaty-specific document to be submitted by States parties under Article 40 of the ICCPR, (2010) UN Doc. CCPR/C/2009/1. 366 See CAT Committee, Information for Civil Society Organisations and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/NGOsNHRIs. aspx; regarding the HRC, see CCPR Centre, “NGO Guidelines on the Reporting Process of the UN Human Rights Committee” (available in English, French and Spanish, thereafter “NGO Guidelines on the Reporting Process”) (2010), available at: http://www.ccprcentre.org/publication/ ngo-guidelines-on-the-reporting-process-of-the-un-human-rights-committee/. 122