(f) Managing the information services of the human rights programme, including the documentation centre and library, enquiry services and the human rights databases;
(g) Preparing studies on relevant articles of the Charter of the United Nations for the Repertory of  Practice of United Nations Organs.

Support Services Branch
The core functions of  the Support Services Branch are as follows:
(a) Planning, preparing and servicing sessions/meetings of the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protec- tion of Human Rights (formerly Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) and related working groups, human rights treaty monitoring bodies and their working groups;
(b) Ensuring that substantive support is provided in a timely manner to the human rights treaty body concerned, drawing on the appropriate resources of  the human rights programme;
(c) Preparing lists of issues based on State party reports for review by the treaty body concerned and following up on decisions and recommenda- tions;
(d) Preparing and co-ordinating the submission of all documents including inputs from other Branches to the activities of treaty bodies and follow- ing up on decisions taken at meetings of  those bodies;
(e) Planning, preparing and servicing sessions of boards of trustees of the following voluntary funds: United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, United Nations Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations and United Nations Voluntary Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, and implementing relevant decisions;
(f) Processing communications submitted to treaty bodies under optional procedures and communications under the procedures established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1503 (XLVIII) of 27 May 1970 and ensuring follow-up.