Documents by UPR Info

UPR Info aims at promoting and strengthening the Universal Periodic Review. We produce analysis for NGOs, diplomats, academics and journalists to facilitate their understanding and participation in the process:

Issues Analysis

New format: Issues Analysis (IA) look into how a particular issue is raised at the UPR by analysing both advance questions and recommendations. They consist of a chart and a fact sheet. The chart shows the overall occurrence of the issue and the fact sheet summarizes the chart and gives the top five States that received and made advances questions and recommendations on the issue.

. Asylum Seekers and Refugees - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Civil society’s participation in the UPR - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Counter-terrorism and Human Rights - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Death Penalty - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Freedom of opinion and expression - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Freedom of religion and belief - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Freedom of the press - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Human Rights Defenders - S1-5: Fact Sheet, Chart

. Indigenous Peoples - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. LGBT Rights - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Migrants - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Racial Discrimination - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

. Right to Education - S1-5: Fact Sheet, Chart

. Torture - S1-5: Fact sheet, Chart

The old IA that looked also into questions raised during the review will be updated shortly:

. Civil Society at the national level - S1+2+3: Chart, Recommendations

. Detention - S1+2: Chart, Recommendations

. Enforced Disappearances - S1+2+3: Chart, Recommendations

. Extrajudiciary, Summary and Arbitrary Executions - S1+2+3: Chart, Recommendations

. Prison - S1+2: Chart, Recommendations

. Rights of the Child - S1+2+3+4: Chart, Recommendations.

Chart split up into 5 pdf: Cover; Session 1; Session 2; Session 3 and Session 4.

Presentation made during the side event on "Using the UPR to promote the Rights of the Child", Thursday 12 March 2009, Palais des Nations, Geneva.

. Women’s rights: S1 - Chart, Recommendations. S2: Chart, Recommendations

States participation

These documents show the participation of States in the WG of the UPR: how many States participated from which regional group and how many Statements were made by each regional group.

- Session 6
- Session 5
- Session 4
- Overview session 1-2-3
- Session 3
- Session 2
- Session 1

Data on UPR sessions

This document contains informative data on each session, such as: size of the delegation of the State under Review (SuR), rank of the head of delegation, number of States that took the floor during the Working Group (WG), length of the review, and number of States and NGOs that took the floor during the plenary:

- Session 1
- Session 2
- Session 3



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