Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations

Recommendations on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics issues have grown steadily across United Nations mechanisms over the past decade. However, obtaining a recommendation from the United Nations does not automatically translate into the change we want to see. Our new Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations takes on that gap directly.

It is ILGA World’s first publication to bring together follow-up practices across treaty bodies, the Universal Periodic Review, Special Procedures and the Sustainable Development Goals framework in a single resource, paired with real examples of what has worked (and what hasn’t) for LGBTI civil society across the world — from Mongolia to Ecuador, Kenya to South Korea.

The guide sets out how to engage strategically with governments, build coalitions and cross-sector alliances, use national human rights institutions as bridges in hostile political environments, connect litigation to international recommendations, push for permanent national follow-up mechanisms, and use or build recommendation-tracking databases to hold States accountable long after the international spotlight has turned off.