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Follow-up activities aim at ensuring that
recommendations and decisions by human rights mechanisms and bodies are implemented so as to improve
respect, protection and fulfilment of all human rights for all. UN human rights
mechanisms and bodies seek to improve the realization of human rights in all
countries of the world. Resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council, the
findings of Commissions of Inquiry, recommendations of treaty bodies, special
procedures and the universal periodic review, and decisions of treaty bodies on
individual cases all aim at closing protection gaps and indicate ways for
States and other stakeholders to advance towards the full realization of human
rights. All these findings, recommendations and decisions aim at producing a
change for the better in the lives of rights-holders. The primary obligation to
realize such change lies with States, which bear the duty to respect, protect
and fulfil human rights. However, all parts of society, from individuals to the
private sector, the international community and CSAs have a role to play in the
realization of human rights. Civil society, in particular, can play a crucial
role in following up on human rights recommendations.