Guide

Under the section ‘Communications search’, results can be obtained by any search word, or by entering the case number, or country, or mandate name and period including by session for the cases already reported.

Search in the box ‘search term’ is not case-insensitive and can be performed in one of two ways by selecting the desired search type; either ‘all of these words’ in which case only communications in which all of the supplied search words can be found are returned or ‘any of these words’ in which case all communications where at least one of the supplied search words are found. In addition a specific phrase can be searched for either alone in combination by enclosing the desired phrase within quotation marks e.g. “migrants” as a search word. Certain noise words are omitted from searches depending on the likely volume of not representative results occurring and the following reserved words are always omitted except when they exist as part of a quoted phrase: ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’ and the symbol ‘&’.

In addition to the above, criteria searches can be refined further by optionally selecting one or more options for each of the following filters: geographic region or state/entity, issues, communication numbers, sessions of the Human Rights Council.

Please be aware that for those communications where government replies are received subsequent to the reporting period, these replies will be reported at the link under ‘replies received’ on the section ‘Latest Report’.

The latest communications sent and replies received can be accessed by filtering to the latest session number or can also be tracked under the section ‘Latest Report’ under the link ‘communications sent’.

Links to communication letters and government replies relating to HRC 18 and before are currently unavailable and will be released in a staggered manner.