The second part of the human rights documentation process is to analyze the information gained through research and present these findings in a clear manner. Generally, documentation leads to the creation of a human rights report, but advocates can use the information to create other materials, such as briefing papers or urgent action appeal notices.

As discussed above, the purpose of human rights documentation is to demonstrate a violation of women's human rights, through government failure to comply with international treaty obligations, as well as any relevant national human rights laws. In the case of documenting violence against women, the perpetrator of the violence will generally be a private actor, not a person acting on behalf of the State. Therefore, the human rights report should clearly demonstrate and analyze State responsibility for protecting women from violence and punishing perpetrators. In order to make this argument, the report should focus on failures of government structures to prevent, punish and remedy acts of private actors who perpetrate violence against women.

In analyzing evidence of State noncompliance with human rights obligations, advocates should examine not only the existence of laws that protect women but also failures in implementation of the law, including analyzing cultural factors, such as the view that domestic violence is a private and family matter, that affect how State actors carry out the law.

In undertaking the actual writing of the report, advocates should follow the same types of guidelines for creating materials that will be distributed to a wide audience. The writing should not be overly technical, terms and acronyms should be defined and context should be given wherever possible.

In addition, the handbook Women's Human Rights Step by Step provides some key criteria which are useful for advocates to keep in mind throughout the research process, but are especially important at the stage of writing a human rights report: