UPR Info

UPR Info
Motto Promoting and strengthening the UPR
Founded 2008
Founder Roland Chauville
Type Non-profit NGO
Focus UPR Mechanism, UN, Human Rights Council, Human Rights
Headquarters 3, Rue de Varembé, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Phone: + 41 22 321 77 70
Location
Area served
worldwide
Products Handbooks, Factsheets, Analyses, trainings
Services Pre-sessions, Follow-up Programme, database on UPR recommendations
Method Strengthening national human rights protection systems, supporting governments, institutions, and human rights defenders, leading and participating in coalitions for the UPR
Key people
 Roland Chauville – Executive Director
Miloon Kothari – Chair
Employees
11 (September 2016)
Mission Make the UPR process an effective mechanism to improve human rights on the ground
Website upr-info.org

UPR Info is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) headquartered in Switzerland, with regional offices in Thailand and Kenya. The organisation main goal is to raise awareness and provide capacity-building tools to the different actors of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, such as United Nations Member States, NGOs, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) and civil society actors. It was established in 2008 and is in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

UPR Info organises "Pre-sessions" before the actual UPRs.[1][2][3][4] It released a major publication on the Universal Periodic Review in 2014, "Beyond promises: the impact of the UPR on the ground",[5] widely acknowledged by NGOs.[6][7][8][9][10]

The material produced by the organisation, in particular its database that includes over 52,000 UPR recommendations,[11] has been used by several scholars[12][13][14] to document the UPR mechanism.

UPR Info launched in 2016, together with CCPR Centre, DOCIP, Huridocs, and Save the Children, an initiative called "We Pay Our Interns" to promote a basic stipend for internships in Geneva. It was quickly supported by dozens of NGOs.

Founder

UPR Info was founded in 2008 by Roland Chauville.[15] He is the current Executive Director.

Presidency

From 2011 to 2015, Bertrand Ramcharan was UPR Info's first elected president.[16]

Since 2015, Miloon Kothari fulfils this role.[17]

Major publications

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldcoalition.org/Abolitionist-NGOs-lobby-to-educate-UN-member-states-in-Geneva.html
  2. ↑ http://www.jwa.ir/index.php?id=139&tx_news_pi1[news]=350&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&cHash=63b1d6fc9c1885d65085f8b537bc0f02
  3. ↑ http://justice4iran.org/j4iran-activities/universal-periodic-review-jfi-will-address-the-medicalisation-of-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-at-upr-pre-session/
  4. ↑ http://transparency.am/en/news/view/885
  5. ↑ https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/general-document/pdf/2014_beyond_promises.pdf
  6. ↑ http://drpi.research.yorku.ca/upr-info-releases-assessment/
  7. ↑ http://www.universal-rights.org/uncategorized/the-upr-mechanism-delivering-real-change/
  8. ↑ http://www.fian.de/artikelansicht/2015-11-16-nepal-zwischen-nothilfe-und-neuordnung/
  9. ↑ https://www.culturalsurvival.org/node/11493
  10. ↑ http://www.universal-rights.org/uncategorized/the-upr-mechanism-delivering-real-change/
  11. ↑ https://www.upr-info.org/database/
  12. ↑ Caruso, Ugo (2014). The United Nations Declaration on Minorities: An Academic Account on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff. ISBN 978-90-04-25155-7.
  13. ↑ Asante, Molefi Kete. Books on Google Play Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498530705.
  14. ↑ Mendes, Errol P. (2014). Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law: Combating the Tragic Flaw.
  15. ↑ http://www.geneve-int.ch/summer-interview-roland-chauville-executive-director-upr-info
  16. ↑ https://www.upr-info.org/en/news/former-acting-high-commissioner-bertrand-g-ramcharan-elected-president-upr-info
  17. ↑ https://www.upr-info.org/en/news/miloon-kothari-elected-president-of-upr-info

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