A/HRC/29/53 1. In its resolution 9/8, the Human Rights Council requested the Secretary-General to report annually to the Council on measures taken to implement resolution 9/8 and on obstacles to its implementation, including recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of, harmonizing and reforming the treaty body system. The present report is submitted pursuant to that request. 2. In its resolution 68/268, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to present to the Assembly, on a biennial basis, a comprehensive report on the status of the treaty body system and the progress achieved by the treaty bodies in achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness in their work, including the number of reports submitted and reviewed by the committees, the visits undertaken and the individual communications received and reviewed, where applicable, the state of the backlog, capacity-building efforts and results achieved, as well as the situation in terms of ratifications, increased reporting and the allocation of meeting time and proposals on measures, including on the basis of information and observations from Member States, to enhance the engagement of all State parties in the dialogue with the treaty bodies. The first report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant to resolution 68/268 will be submitted to the Assembly in 2016. 3. In the light of the overlapping reporting obligations, the report of the SecretaryGeneral prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 9/8 was postponed from the twenty-eighth session of the Council to the twenty-ninth (see A/HRC/28/21). 4. Comprehensive information on the topics raised in Human Rights Council resolution 9/8 is available at the following websites: • Ratification status by country or by treaty: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx • Status of ratification maps: http://indicators.ohchr.org/ • Reporting status to human rights treaty body: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Countries.aspx • Timely, late and non-reporting to human rights treaty bodies: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/LateReporting.aspx • Calendar of country reviews by treaty bodies: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/MasterCalendar.aspx • Common core documents: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/CoreDocuments.aspx • Treaty body database (search engine for treaty body documentation): http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/TBSearch.aspx • Universal Human Rights Index (search engine for recommendations made by human rights mechanisms): http://uhri.ohchr.org • Jurisprudence database: http://juris.ohchr.org 5. The following documents also contain information on the issues raised in Human Rights Council resolution 9/8: 2