Documentation for CSOs

UPR Info works to make the UPR easily accessible to all civil society actors. By clicking on the tabs below, you can find useful documents covering a wide range of topics such as UPR best practices, studies on the UPR, tips for working on monitoring and implementation of UPR recommendations, etc.

Cso Advocacy
UPR Info Pre-sessions: Empowering human rights voices from the ground (EN)
UPR Advocacy Factsheets Thailand (EN)
UPR Advocacy Factsheets Myanmar (EN)
UPR: Successful examples of child rights advocacy (EN)
Lobby guide by Ugandan stakeholders (EN)
UPR Advocacy Paper Template (EN)
Advocacy Strategy Table (EN)
NGO Advocacy in the UPR (EN)
Opportunities for Nongovernmental Organization Advocacy in the Universal Periodic Review Process at the UN Human Rights Council (EN)

Country documents
Kenya | Session 49 - May 2025
Defenders Coalition Kenya - factsheet civil and political rights
Factsheets · EN
Country documents
Guinea-Bissau | Session 49 - May 2025
Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos - factsheet
Factsheets · EN
Country documents
Armenia | Session 49 - May 2025
Pink human right defender NGO (Pink Armenia) - factsheet
Factsheets · EN
Country documents
Spain | Session 49 - May 2025
Fundación Cepaim - Acción Integral con Migrantes - factsheet stateless persons' rights
Factsheets · EN
Country documents
Spain | Session 49 - May 2025
Fundación Cepaim - Acción Integral con Migrantes - factsheet asylum seekers and refugees' rights
Factsheets · EN

documents
The UPR & Me: My Guide to Participating in the UPR (EN)
Tips for Engagment at Country Level for NHRIs and Civil Society (EN)
UPR Mid-term reporting: Good practices for UPR stakeholders (EN)
The Civil Society Compendium: A comprehensive guide for Civil Society Organisations engaging in the UPR (EN)
A Guide for National Human Rights Institutions (EN)
UPR Info Pre-sessions: Empowering human rights voices from the ground (EN)
A Guide for Recommending States at the UPR (EN)
UPR Training Manual for civil society (EN)

Monitoring
UPR Mid-term reporting: Good practices for UPR stakeholders (EN)
The Butterfly Effect: Spreading Good Practices of UPR Implementation (EN)
Follow-up guide (EN)

UPR Info statement during high-level commemorative event on the occasion of the 50th session of the Human Rights Council: achievements and lessons learned (EN)
Technical Guidelines "Other Stakeholders "Report for 4th UPR Cycle (EN)
Working with ECOSOC: an NGOs Guide to Consultative Status (EN)
Third cycle Technical Guidelines for stakeholders’ written submissions (EN)
Guide for NGO submission online registration system (EN)
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme - A Handbook for Civil Society - Chapter VII (EN)
Guidelines for video statements during UPR Working Group report adoptions at HRC plenary sessions (EN)

2025 UPR info Statement Item 6 HRC58 (EN)
Gender-based violence and SDG5 (EN)
UPR-Info-Gender-Policy (EN)
UPR_Info_Annual report_2020 (EN)
Database Issues Explanation (EN)
Database Action Category (EN)
2019 UPR Info Annual Report (EN)
Resume: Sharing good practices to protect Women's ESC rights through UPR (EN)
ICP Activity Report_ Kyrgystan (EN)
Good practices from Federal States in the UPR process EN (EN)
United Nations Human Rights Council: 48th Session Oral statement Item 6 – General Debate UPR Info – October 1st, 2021 (EN)
Joint letter among the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” of University of Padua, the UPR Branch of OHCHR and UPR Info (EN)
The UPR & Me: My Guide to Participating in the UPR (EN)
UPR Info Guidelines on Reprisals (EN)
Compilation of statements on the UPR made under item 4.1 (EN)
UPR Advocacy Paper Template (EN)
Advocacy Strategy Table (EN)
NGO Advocacy in the UPR (EN)
Factsheet no 2 NGO written submission (EN)
Factsheet no 1 The UPR Process (EN)
Summary of the new UPR modalities for the second cycle (EN)
Statement by Geneva for Human Rights (EN)
Summary of UPR Info’s conference on the UPR follow-up (EN)
Compilation of written proposals for the UPR review (EN)

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