REPORTING TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES TRAINING GUIDE: Part I — Manual Sources to identify relevant issues to be included in the report International sources: Relevant UN human rights treaty and its reporting guidelines General comments of the relevant Treaty Body Decisions on individual communications, where relevant The last concluding observations (for periodic reports) List of issues prior to reporting, where applicable Reports submitted to other Treaty Bodies and to the UPR Concluding observations from other Treaty Bodies and recommendations from the UPR and Special Procedures National sources (non-exhaustive): Reports from government institutions and agencies Reports from monitoring mechanisms Statistics and data Official statements Reports from NHRI, CSOs, media, academia, etc. If you want to find: ÎÎReporting Guidelines, click here/visit the OHCHR website at the link: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/Overview.aspx ÎÎRecommendations from Treaty Bodies, UPR and Special Procedures, click here/visit OHCHR Universal Human Rights Index at http://uhri.ohchr.org/ ÎÎViews/decisions of the Treaty Bodies, click here/visit OHCHR’s jurisprudence database at http://juris.ohchr.org/ iii. Gathering information and collection of data It is suggested that before starting collection of information and data, the drafting group elaborates the afore-mentioned list of relevant issues on which the report is going to focus. Based on this list, the drafting group can conduct a mapping of the information needed to draft the report, that is, which legislation, policies and programmes already in place contribute to implementation of the specific treaty in the territory of the State party, particularly those issues on which the report will further elaborate. The drafting group must know who has such information and in which form. It may therefore also wish to list all important sources of information, including relevant governmental and administrative agencies and any organization and individual resource person outside the government who might have the information needed to prepare a specific report. Then a matching between the mapping of the information needed and the sources of information should be undertaken. Identification of the issues, along with the result of this matching exercise, will serve as 44