Annexure 5A: Useful links on Special Procedures 1. A Handbook for NGOs with details on Special Procedures http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/NgoHandbook/ngohandbook6.pdf The handbook states that any Special Procedure mandate holder who has the receipt of information about human rights violations within their mandate can accept such complaints/communications. 2. 3. Mandate holders particularly relevant to sexual violence that accept individual complaints include:  Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/Complaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Appe als.aspx and http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Allegation.aspx Others which may be relevant depending on the facts include:  Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Trafficking/Pages/complaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context (her work include the link between domestic violence and the right to housing): http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/IndividualComplaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Slavery/SRSlavery/Pages/SubmittingInformat ion.aspx  Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/Complaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Health/Pages/IndividualComplaints.a spx  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/SRHRDefenders/Pages/Complaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Judiciary/Pages/Complaints.aspx  Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/SRIndigenousPeoples/Pages/SubmitI nformation.aspx  Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Migration/SRMigrants/Pages/Communications REDRESS | INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES 55