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Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:25 PM

Dear Bobbi,

FYI. This may interest some of our members.

Best wishes, Eva

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Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society
“We must persevere in our efforts to make the Universal Declaration’s principles come to fruition for the different communities that we serve. It is my hope that this Handbook will20be used to facilitate civil society actors’ understanding of and access to the United Nations human rights system. It is a modest but significant resource in our joint endeavour to make human rights, dignity and equality a universal reality.”
Navi Pillay United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
About the Handbook
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society is a new, user-friendly and authoritative publication on United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms – explaining how they work and exploring the many important ways that civil society actors including NGOs can contribute to their work.
This publication is addressed to the civil society actors who, every day in every part of the world, contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights, and it ultimately aims at enabling more people to access and make claim to their human rights through effective use of United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms.
The Handbook’s contents
The Handbook includes information on:
OHCHR’s mandate, role and activities
OHCHR’s fellowship and training programmes
OHCHR’s publications and resource materials
The Human Rights Treaty Bodies
The Human Rights Council
The Special Procedures
The Universal Periodic Review
How to submit compl aints on alleged human rights violations; and
Funds and grants available to civil society.
The Handbook also includes best practice examples of civil society collaboration with OHCHR in the field and civil society contributions to the work of United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms. Further, it lists key contacts at OHCHR.
The Handbook’s design
To make it easier for readers to access information, each Handbook chapter has been written in a way that allows it to stand independently from the rest of the Handbook. Chapters are generally divided into three sections, addressing:
What the body/mechanism is;
How it works; and
How civil society actors can access and work with it.
It is important to note that the Handbook is not a stand-alone or static guide. Where possible, references to the OHCHR website and other resources are provided to ensure that readers have access to current information. Readers are encouraged to use these supplementary resources.
The entire Handbook (PDF) may be downloaded in English or individual chapters can be accessed by clicking on the links below. The Handbook will also be available in Arabic, Russian, Spanish and French in 2009.

CHAPTERS PDFs
Introduction E
Chapter I – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Reference links from chapter I E
Chapter II – OHCHR fellowship and training programmes
Reference links from chapter II E
Chapter III – OHCHR publications and resource materials
Reference links from chapter III E
Chapter IV – Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Reference links from ch apter IV E
Chapter V – Human Rights Council
Reference links from chapter V E
Chapter VI – Special Procedures
Reference links from chapter VI E
Chapter VII – Universal Periodic Review
Reference links from chapter VII E
Chapter VIII – Submitting a complaint on an alleged human rights violation
Reference links from chapter VIII E
Chapter IX – Funds and grants
Reference links from chapter IX E