For civil society organisations, the treaty bodies are an increasingly rare space in which they can articulate and find support for the struggles they face in their home countries. The committees can shine an international spotlight on overlooked aspects of equality and provide recommendations to address grave and systemic abuses of human rights. The work of civil society has long been included and valued in these fora, presenting a clear picture of the realities on the ground, enabling the Committees to hold states parties accountable and creating positive ripple effects throughout the globe. At a time when civil society spaces are shrinking in many national contexts, it is all the more crucial that impunity for human rights violations can be challenged at the UN level.