Human Rights Council: Submitting an NGO written statement
NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC (General, Special or Roster status) may submit written statements to the Human Rights Council (HRC).
The written statement is formatted and issued, unedited, in the language(s) received from the submitting NGO. English, Spanish and French versions can be published at this time.
In order for your statement to be published before the session, the deadline for submission is exactly two weeks prior to the start of a session. See the
deadline on the web site. All submissions are final.
Please fill out this FORM and CHECKLIST to submit your statement and send it to the address indicated below. Your information goes after each arrow.
1. Please indicate the contact information for the representative submitting this statement (i.e. name, mobile, email) here:
2.Indicate the Agenda item number (1-10) of statement, including the segment *: (Interactive Dialogue, ID; General Debate, GD; or Panel):
Item #______ Segment: _______
3.a) If this is an individual statement, indicate your organization's name as in the ECOSOC NGO database and indicate its consultative status in brackets (i.e. General, Special, or Roster).
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3.b) If this is a joint statement, list the main sponsor first, and then the co-sponsoring ECOSOC NGOs as they appear in the ECOSOC database and status (in brackets): Group all General NGOs first, group the Special second and group the Roster third.
4.Indicate here any non-ECOSOC NGO(s) supporting this statement (they will appear as a footnote to the statement title):
5.Indicate the exact TITLE for this statement here:
Please make sure that:
□ This statement is in MS WORD document format (Font Times New Roman 10; no bold; no underline; no italics).
□ Check word count: (Go to Tools, Word count, # of words) Indicate the length of text (excluding footnotes/endnotes) here:
-NGOs in general consultative status are allowed 2,000 words
-NGOs in special consultative status and on the roster are allowed 1,500 words
□ Please use the Spell/grammar check on your text. (Go to Tools, Spelling &
Grammar)
□ If in doubt about Member States’ names and correct UN terminology when referring to certain territories, use UNTERM database:
http://unterm.un.org/
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□ Different language versions of one statement should be sent in the same email, but using a separate form for each.
□ Email this document to: hrcngo@ohchr.org
* See the HRC Practical Guide for participants, page 9, which refers to segments in the session
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