are meeting with made at previous UPRs on similar issues. If this is not possible due to financial or other constraints, this can also be done remotely through email and phone and through the local embassy in your country. After the review of Eritrea, the NGO coalition wrote to the government to say which recommendations it should accept. It copied in all delegations, which made the accepted recommendations. This was a way of keeping delegations informed and following-up with them. During the review NGOs can also host parallel events about the situation in their country during the session of the UPR Working Group. This is a good opportunity to reach a broad audience and possibly also some media outlets. The UPR Working Group session is also an important tool to promote human rights nationally, and gather attention to issues you raised in your own country. You can organise a webcasting session, live, of the whole UPR in your country. It can even be a broad public event, to which you invite the diplomatic community and other NGOs, students and youth activists, etc. Between the review session and the adoption of the outcome at the Human Rights Council, NGOs have the opportunity to advocate authorities of the state under review to accept certain recommendations because most of the states under review only respond to the recommendations at the Human Rights Council session and not at the review itself. 14 A Practical Guide to the UPR: How NGOs can influence the UPR process NGOs are only allowed to give direct input into the UPR at the very end of the process. Therefore, the intervention should focus on follow-up and implementation of recommendations. At the Human Rights Council session The outcome of the UPR is to be adopted at the Human Rights Council session - normally the Council session that follows the UPR Working Group session. At the Council session in Geneva, a sideevent can have more visibility than at the UPR session. It is also at the Council session that an NGO can take the floor. You should look into the possibility of holding an event at the Council session, and, depending on the national situation, with the participation of the Ambassador to the United Nations at Geneva or other representatives of the state under review. This side-event could typically focus on the “national UPR implementation plan.” In addition, preparing a short statement to be made at the Council (two minutes) can be efficient and you can thereby bring your points to the table of the Council. Implementation and followup to UPR recommendations In the follow-up phase where the state is practically obliged to implement the recommendations in the UPR Outcome Document, there are several venues for NGOs to get engaged. First step of the