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The UPR, created in 2007, subjects all current 193 UN member states, without distinction based on size or power, to the same review, applying the same methodology and purpose equally to all (International Bar Association 2016; Arredondo and Nicolle 2013; Domínguez-Redondo and McMahon 2013; Sen 2011).

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  1. 1.

    For details see http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx. The founding documents are UN General Assembly Resolution 60/251; Institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 (18 June 2006); HRC Universal Periodic Review Decision 6/102 (27 September 2007); Modalities and practices for the universal periodic review process PRST/8/1 (9 April 2008); Follow-up to President’s statement 8/1 PRST/9/2 (24 September 2008); Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council 12 April 2011; Human Rights Council decision 17/119: Follow-up to the Human Rights Council resolution 16/21 with regard to the universal periodic review 19 July 2011; Human Rights Council decision OM/7/101: Non-cooperation of a State under review with the universal periodic review mechanism 29 January 2013; Letter from President of the Human Rights Council on rules and practices of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, 18 September 2013; all documents are accessible via http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/BackgroundDocuments.aspx.

  2. 2.

    See, for instance, the OHCHR website via http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx / documentation by country and click asterisk 3 at Summary of stakeholders’ information.

  3. 3.

    See www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx and www.upr-info.org. Please note, that sometimes the figures on the number of recommendations received by a country differ between the official outcome report and the database displayed at the website of the NGO UPR Info. For reasons of reference to governments’ statements, this text uses the figures of the official documentation.

  4. 4.

    See footnote 1.

  5. 5.

    Including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Convention Against Torture (CAT), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), or ICRMW.

  6. 6.

    The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective; for details see http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Welcomepage.aspx.

  7. 7.

    See further details on that discussion at https://www.upr-info.org/en/news/for-effective-third-cycle-two-elements-of-the-upr-process-must-be-prioritised.

  8. 8.

    UPR Info has already provided fact sheets on five issues, at https://www.upr-info.org/en/news/morocco-launches-upr-3rd-cycle-preparation-with-upr-infos-support.

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Rathgeber, T. (2018). Universal Periodic Review on Southeast Asia Norm Building in Transition: A Hermeneutic Approach. In: Gomez, J., Ramcharan, R. (eds) The Universal Periodic Review of Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6226-1_3

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