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Harrington, Joanna. "Canada, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Universal Periodic Review." Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel 18, no. 1, 2 & 3 (2011): 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21991/c9737t.

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Emelonye, Uchenna. "Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in Nigeria: Civil Society Perspective." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 6 (2021): 330–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.86.10383.

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Civil society organizations are key actors in the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria and have participated in all the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) circles of the Government of Nigeria. The UPR is a first of its kind innovation adopted in 2006 by the Human Rights Council to complement the works of treaty bodies and involves the review on a periodic basis, the human rights records of all Member States of the United Nations. As a peer review process comprising three distinct stages and involving three major sources of information, this article exclusively ex-rays the UPR civil society report on the implementation of Nigeria’s international human rights obligations. As one of the three sources of information relied upon by the Human Rights Council in the Universal Periodic Review of the human rights record of the Government of Nigeria, this article, while focusing on the civil society information submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/251 concludes that despite advances in the promotion and protection of human rights claimed in its national report to be made in the implementation of international human rights obligations, there are still, from civil society lens, plethora of issues and gaps in the implementation of Nigeria’s international human rights obligations.

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Patel, Gayatri. "Smoke and mirrors at the United Nations’ universal periodic review process." International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare 10, no. 5 (2017): 310–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-06-2017-0027.

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Purpose In 2006, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council was tasked to establish a new human rights monitoring mechanism: the universal periodic review process. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of discussions held in the process, over the two cycles of review in relation to women’s rights to access health care services. Design/methodology/approach This investigation is a documentary analysis of the reports of 193 United Nations’ state reports, over two cycles of review. Findings The primary findings of this investigation reveal that despite an apparent consensus on the issue, a deeper analysis of the discussions suggests that the dialogue between states is superficial in nature, with limited commitments made by states under review in furthering the protection of women’s right to access health care services in the domestic context. Practical implications Considering the optimism surrounding the UPR process, the findings reveal that the nature of discussions held on women’s rights to health care services is at best a missed opportunity to make a significant impact to initiate, and inform, changes to practices on the issue in the domestic context; and at worst, raises doubts as to whether the core aim of the process, to improve the protection and promotion of all human rights on the ground, is being fulfilled. Originality/value Deviating from the solely technocratic analysis of the review process in the existing literature, this investigation has considered the UPR process as a phenomenon of exploration in itself, and will provide a unique insight as to how this innovative monitoring mechanism operates in practice, with a particular focus on women’s right to access health care services.

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AL-RAGGAD, Abdallah Kalaf, and Rima Fadlallah CHEHAYEB. "THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN ‎RIGHTS COUNCIL IN THE PROTECTION OF ‎HUMAN RIGHTS." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 04, no. 02 (2022): 200–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.16.15.

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It goes without saying the extent of international interest in the issue ‎of human rights, especially after the establishment of the United ‎Nations Organization. This interest was translated in the Charter of ‎the United Nations of 1945, which established major organs of duties ‎to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and ‎to emphasize equality without discrimination, as the Charter ‎authorized To establish sub-committees with a view to translating ‎the goals and purposes of the United Nations‏.‏ Where the International Council for Human Rights was established in ‎‎2006 to succeed the Commission on Human Rights, which is ‎affiliated with the General Assembly of the United Nations, where this ‎Council has undertaken multiple mechanisms for the promotion and ‎protection of human rights, and made achievements and ‎contributions with the aim of advancing them‏.‏This study came according to three sections. The first section dealt ‎with the development of the establishment of the Council through ‎exposure to the stage prior to its establishment, which is the era of ‎the Human Rights Committee, and then the era of its establishment ‎in which we dealt with introducing the Council in terms of ‎composition, membership and duties, and then assessing this ‎formation, and the second topic was allocated To clarify the ‎Council's mechanisms represented by special procedures and ‎complaints procedure, the universal periodic review, and the ‎advisory committee, and the evaluation of these mechanisms. As for ‎the third topic, it dealt with the most important contributions of the ‎Council‏.‏ The study concluded with a number of findings of the study, which ‎focused on the advantages and disadvantages of the Council, and ‎some recommendations, the most important of which is the emphasis ‎on the need for democratic representation in the Council and its ‎independence, and the implementation of its decisions and ‎recommendations through the Security Council, with its authority to ‎take measures in suppressing gross and systematic violations of ‎human rights

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Nguyen, Thi Kim Ngan. "The Process of Viet Nam’s Preparation of the National Report under the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review." Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 17, no. 1 (2016): 102–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718158-01701008.

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Viet Nam has finished two national reports under the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review. The Vietnamese national reports were prepared in accordance with the general guidelines of the Human Rights Council and experience learnt from other countries. However, the process of Viet Nam’s preparation of its national reports reveals some shortcomings that should be considered. In order to fulfill the obligations of international human rights treaties of which Viet Nam is a party, the process of Viet Nam’s preparation of national reports should be continuously improved to further ensure and promote fundamental human rights in Viet Nam.

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Cofelice, Andrea. "Italy and the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Playing the two-level game." Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 47, no. 2 (2017): 227–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2017.6.

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The aim of this article is to assess Italy’s behaviour in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council, both as a recommending state and as a state under review. The UPR is a peer review mechanism launched in 2008, through which all UN member states can make recommendations to each other regarding human rights practices. Drawing on role theory, liberal and constructivist institutionalism, and the two-level game approach, the analysis reveals that Italian decision-makers played parallel games at the domestic and international tables of the UPR, and managed to adapt country’s human rights foreign policy goals according to the different social contexts where they operated. Indeed, while in the review phase in Geneva, Italy sought legitimacy for both its policies and its status as an international ‘human rights friendly’ actor, at domestic level a policy of inactivity was chosen, in order to minimize the impact of the most costly UPR recommendations, and protect the dynamics of domestic politics. The time-span of the analysis covers the first 19 UPR sessions (2008–14), broadly coinciding with Italy’s first two membership terms at the Human Rights Council.

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Komath, Ashwath. "State Behaviour at the Universal Periodic Review: An Examination of India’s Third Review at the United Nations Human Rights Council." India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 76, no. 2 (2020): 185–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974928420917786.

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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has been a promising instrument in the hands of the United Nations Human Rights Council. With more emphasis on constructive criticism than an adversarial approach, it was thought that this method would help states to improve their human rights records. This article takes the case of India’s last review through this process and derives various trends and patterns of interaction with other states. It starts by outlining the process of the UPR itself and how it works procedurally, after which it highlights India’s presentation of its human rights record, and subsequently how the international community reacted to it. One of the core arguments of this article is that when it comes to human rights, it is important to analyse its politics through a regional lens since geographical continuities determine an overall outlook towards human rights and priorities that states highlight when they consider human rights records on the whole. This is further substantiated by looking at instances when bilateralism has not succeeded in its goals. It also makes certain statistical inferences after close examination of the recommendations posed by states, as well as India’s response (or lack thereof) to those recommendations. The article also highlights certain cases from India’s domestic developments to see how it plays out in the international community and their perception of India’s human rights record.

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Cochrane, Leanne, and Kathryn McNeilly. "The United Kingdom, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the first cycle of the Universal Periodic Review." International Journal of Human Rights 17, no. 1 (2013): 152–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.720571.

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Weingand, Yanik. "Scholars, States, and Human Rights." Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, no. 122 (June 16, 2022): 47–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.24437/globaleurope.i122.1109.

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This article investigates the similarities between different critiques towards the international human rights system from academia and state-actors. On the one hand, there are the critiques from scholars of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement. On the other hand, there are critical points raised towards the international human rights system by China, Cuba, and Egypt in the reports from the first three cycles of their respective Universal Periodic Review (UPR) within the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Through a literature review, the TWAIL critiques were first categorized and then worked into a framework of three basic pillars: the culture critique, the rhetoric critique, and the model critique. This framework was subsequently applied to the reports by way of a simplified Qualitative Content Analysis in order to extrapolate the similarities of the critiques from these two unlikely groups of actors.

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Khoo, Ying Hooi. "Malaysia's Human Rights Performance: Assessment of its First Session of Universal Periodic Review in the United Nations Human Rights Council." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1 (2014): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v6i1.3755.

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Since its inception, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has been subjected to a substantial amount of criticism. The mechanism began functioning in 2008, however there have been little made known about the roles and functions of the UPR. This article explicitly examines the first UPR process of Malaysia in 2009, in order to illustrate how the mechanism operates in practice by highlighting the engagement of Malaysia government with the stakeholders, the follow-up process and the main issues concerned. This article argues that in spite of the excellent diplomacy skills that portrayed by the Malaysian government in the UPR session, the human rights situation in the country has not been improved much. This paper seeks to determine how effective the UPR has been at encouraging human rights reforms nationally by analyzing and assessing the implementation actions of Malaysian government in response to their accepted UPR recommendations.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Universal Periodic Review, United Nations Human Rights Council"

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Lihuvud, Svensson Nathalie. "The universal periodic review : a study on the effectiveness of the United Nations Human Rights Council´s monitoring mechanism." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115624.

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Books on the topic "Universal Periodic Review, United Nations Human Rights Council"

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Sen, Purna. Universal periodic review: Lessons, hopes and expectations. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.

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Purna, Sen, and Vincent Monica, eds. Universal periodic review of human rights: Towards best practice. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2009.

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Purna, Sen, and Vincent Monica, eds. Universal periodic review of human rights: Towards best practice. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2009.

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Zambia. Zambia's 1st national report on the universal periodic review under the United Nations Human Rights Council. Republic of Zambia, 2008.

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Mid-term progress report on the implementation of the United Nations Human Rights Council's universal periodic review recommendations to Malawi. Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), 2013.

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The human rights to adequate housing and land in India: Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council for India's third universal periodic review. Housing and Land Rights Network, 2016.

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Kumāra, Cākamā Maṅgala, Chakma Bablu, Chowdhury Mong Shanoo editor, Kapaeeng Foundation (Dhaka Bangladesh), and ACTIONAID Bangladesh (Organization), eds. State of UPR progression, 2014: Bangladesh's indigenous people's perspective : an annual observation on the progression status of United Nations Rights Council's second cycle universal periodic review (UPR) recommendations on the human rights situation in Bangladesh. Kapaeeng Foundation, 2015.

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Nations, United. The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1996. Dept. of Public Information, United Nations, 1996.

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Etone, Damian. Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Etone, Damian. Human Rights Council: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review in Africa. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Book chapters on the topic "Universal Periodic Review, United Nations Human Rights Council"

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Liljeblad, Jonathan. "Myanmar indigenous engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review." In Indigenous Identity, Human Rights, and the Environment in Myanmar. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003133728-3.

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Miloon, Kothari. "Part V Institutions and Actors, Ch.25 From Commission to the Council: Evolution of UN Charter Bodies." In The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199640133.003.0026.

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This article examines the evolution of the United Nations� (UN) human rights agency from the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) into the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). It explains that UNHRC was created in March 2006 to replace the UNCHR and become the world�s premier human rights body. It evaluates the effectiveness of the UNHRC�s peer-review human rights mechanism called the Universal Periodic Review. This article also offers some suggestions on how to improve the performance of the UNHRC including changes in size and distribution of membership, membership criteria, voting patterns and participation of non-state actors.

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Helene, Combrinck. "Art.36 Consideration of Reports." In The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810667.003.0037.

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This chapter examines Article 36 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which sets out one of the CRPD’s international monitoring mechanisms, viz the consideration of state reports by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Every human rights treaty contains certain ‘directives’ for the treaty monitoring body on how to respond to reports from member states. The notion of monitoring human rights implementation through the review of periodic reports had its origins in a 1956 resolution of the United Nations Economic and Social Council which requested states to submit, every three years, reports on progress achieved in advancing the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By 1977, a reporting requirement had been included into each of the ‘core’ international human rights treaties. This has become a standard feature of all subsequent human rights treaties, including the CRPD.

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Introvigne, Massimo. "The Suicide of Ms. Liu and Other Chinese Persecution Stories." In Inside The Church of Almighty God. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089092.003.0001.

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The chapter tells the stories of persecution, arrest, detention, torture, and in some cases extrajudicial killing of nine members of The Church of Almighty God in China. All the stories reveal the real names of the victims and are supported by documents filed with the Human Rights Council of the United Nations during the 2018 Universal Periodic Review of China and published on the website of the United Nations. They evidence a consistent pattern of repression and abuse. The victims were arrested for no other crime than being active in a banned religious group. Members of their families were also threatened and persecuted. Extra-judicial killings were covered up, and families were told that natural causes were responsible for the victims’ deaths.

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Wheatley, Steven. "The Idea of International Human Rights Law." In The Idea of International Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749844.003.0008.

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Chapter 7 summarizes and clarifies the argument in the book, explaining the distinctive nature of International Human Rights Law. It reminds us that states invented human rights in 1945 with the inauguration of the United Nations Charter. They explained the meaning of the term ‘human rights’ three years later with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, although the concept evolved in a radically different direction than originally expected as states responded to events in apartheid southern Africa. The central insight of this final chapter is that the moral concept of human rights, which emerges from the legal practice, then influences the legal practice. We see this with the introduction, without debate, of the system of Universal Periodic Review, in the pro homine approach to the interpretation of human rights treaties, and in the modern methodology for customary international law formation, which looks first to the communication acts of the United Nations General Assembly. The book concludes by showing how the influence of the idea of human rights on the legal practices can explain the fragmentation of international law and, relatedly, the special nature of International Human Rights Law.

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Reports on the topic "Universal Periodic Review, United Nations Human Rights Council"

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Gorman, Clare, Lucy Halton, and Kushum Sharma. Advocating for Change in Nepal’s Adult Entertainment Sector. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/clarissa.2021.010.

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The United Nations Human Rights Council has a powerful role to play in addressing the worst forms of child labour. Accountability mechanisms such as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – which work to support Member States to improve their human rights situation – are therefore widely seen as important opportunities to advocate for change. Ahead of Nepal’s third UPR cycle in 2021, the CLARISSA programme met with eight UN Permanent Missions to present recommendations addressing the exploitation of children within Nepal’s adult entertainment sector. This spotlight story shares the programme’s experience in advocacting within this process. It also highlights their approach of providing decision makers with recommendations to the Government of Nepal that were underpinned by the importance of integrating a participatory, adaptive and child-centred approach.

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