Based on our findings, we make the following general recommendations:

1. Parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should examine the good practices and countryspecific recommendations contained in this report, and seek to improve their practices where necessary.
2. Parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should seek to work with national and international partners in order to maximise human rights protection within their countries.
   1.  At the international level, parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should seek to contribute to the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council, and the other UN treaty bodies and special procedures. They should also seek appropriate technical capacity building and training from the relevant international organisations.
   2. At the regional level, parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should work together with the relevant regional bodies to monitor the enforcement of judgements of the regional human rights court.
   3. At the national level, parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should build effective working relationships with all the key stakeholders, and work together with other parts of the national human rights machinery to ensure the coherence and co-ordination of that machinery, and its optimal use of resources for the protection and realisation of human rights.
3. Parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should ensure that adequate resources are allocated to the protection of human rights within parliament, including through the provision of an adequate number of staff with expertise in human rights law and policy, to the committee, the parliamentary legal service, and the parliamentary research service.
4. Parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should ensure the independence and plurality of the parliamentary human rights committee, and the parliamentary human rights committee should ensure that its reports are principled and adopted by consensus to the greatest extent possible, so that the work of the parliamentary human rights committee is respected.
5. Parliaments and parliamentary human rights committees should also continually review and improve their working practices, and assess and improve their effectiveness in protecting human rights.