Solidarity makes us stronger

The treaty bodies encourage submissions prepared by coalitions of civil society organisations, which cover a broad range of issues that impact on the enjoyment of human rights. If your country has an upcoming review by a treaty body, it would be useful to connect with other local and national NGOs, advocates, social movements and grassroots groups to encourage participation and to identify, prioritize and include relevant information and recommendations on key issues.

The Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) and the Monitoring Working Group (MWG) are also able to support parallel reporting from a substantive equality perspective. Members of the two Working Groups may be able to support you in some of the following ways:

• Connect you with other human rights advocates in your country and provide advice about how to work in a coalition on a parallel report;
• Provide support for human-rights data collection and assessing human rights obligations;
• Provide guidance and support throughout the drafting process to strengthen your parallel report (e.g. reviewing a draft), particularly the integration of an intersectional approach;
• Offer advice on interacting with the treaty bodies during the review itself. If you are unable to participate in the sessions, members could link you with other organizations that will participate and would be willing to collaborate with you;  
• Support a strong follow-up process to implement the concluding recommendations of the treaty bodies; and
• Work with others to analyze the impacts of parallel reporting on concluding observations.