Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
Appendix 4:
List of documents to review
Legislation
• Constitutional provisions on NHRI
• Constitutional human rights provisions
• NHRI’s Act
• internal rules and regulations
NHRI reports
• examples of NHRI reports and submissions, for example to Treaty Monitoring Bodies, to the
Universal Periodic Review, to the Parliament
• examples of NHRI reports on human rights situations and investigations
Operational and evaluation reports
• last three annual reports
• external evaluation reports
• organisational and staffing documents
• Strategic Plan
• annual work or activity plans for last two years
• budget for current year
• organisational charts
• staff list
• staff turnover figures
• tables of gender disaggregated staffing allocations across offices and teams
• NHRI internal operating procedures and guidelines documents
• packages/brochures on the NHRI published by NHRI
• materials used for staff development
–– induction Information materials
–– training materials
ICC accreditation
• NHRI’s most recent statement of compliance
• last ICC report and recommendations on NHRI
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