The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has issued a call for inputs to inform its upcoming biennial report to the UN General Assembly “on the status of the human rights treaty body system and the progress achieved by the human rights treaty bodies in realizing greater efficiency and effectiveness in their work, including the number of reports submitted and reviewed by the committees, the visits undertaken and the individual communications received and reviewed, where applicable, the state of the backlog, capacity-building efforts and the results achieved, as well as the situation in terms of ratifications, increased reporting and the allocation of meeting time and proposals on measures, including on the basis of information and observations from Member States, to enhance the engagement of all States parties in the dialogue with the treaty bodies.”

Please submit inputs to ohchr-tbs@un.org in digital or electronic formats accessible to persons with disabilities, for example, Word or text formats. The responses will be posted as received on the following OHCHR webpage http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRTD/Pages/TBStrengthening.aspx.