62 PROMOTING AND PROTECTING MINORITY RIGHTS Contacts and further information All the treaty bodies discussed in this chapter may be contacted via: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations 8-14 Avenue de la Paix CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Fax: 41 22 917 90 22 The specific committee being addressed should be specified in both the address and correspondence. Information on the treaty system may be found in The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System (OHCHR Fact Sheet No. 30/Rev.1).69 Detailed guidance on working with the treaty bodies is given in: Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society. A number of works describe the practical aspects of using the treaty-based procedures described above. These include: G. Alfredsson and E. Ferrer, Minority Rights: A Guide to United Nations Procedures and Institutions (Minority Rights Group and Raoul Wallenberg Institute, 1998); S. Lewis-Anthony and M. Scheinin, “Treaty-based Procedures for Making Human Rights Complaints Within the UN System”, in H. Hannum, Guide to International Human Rights Practice, 4th ed., (Transnational/Nijhoff, 2004); S. Farrior, “International Reporting Procedures”, in H. Hannum, Guide to International Human Rights Practice, 4th ed. (Transnational/Nijhoff, 2004). Other useful guides to the work of particular treaty bodies include: A. Tanaka and Y. Nagamine, The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: A Guide for NGOs (International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism and Minority Rights Group International, 2001); M. Banton, Combating Racial Discrimination: The UN and its Member States (Minority Rights Group International, 2000); Division for the Advancement of Women, Assessing the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations and International Women’s Rights Action Watch, 2000); P. R. Ghandhi, The Human Rights Committee and the Right of Individual Communication: Law and Practice (Ashgate, 1999); and K. A. Young, The Law and Process of the U.N. Human Rights Committee (Transnational, 2002). Available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet30en.pdf (accessed 2 December 2012). 69