UPR Info

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Promoting and strengthening the Universal Periodic Review

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UPR Info is an NGO dedicated to help all stakeholders throughout the UPR process effectively achieve the mechanism’s goal of improving human rights on the ground.

UPR Info’s mission is to promote and strengthen the UPR by raising awareness, providing capacity-building tools, and bridging the different actors of the UPR process in order to ensure the universal advancement of human rights. In order to ensure our mission we hold a set of values:

Universality: UPR Info wholeheartedly affirms the universality of human rights, and deems essential the universal coverage and equal treatment of all issues, countries, and stakeholders.

Transparency: At UPR Info, we are committed to employing and promoting the highest standards of transparency, both internally and externally. We commit to the transparency of our organisational working methods, strive to promote the transparency of States during the Review and Implementation phases of the UPR, and work diligently to make the modalities and developments of the UPR mechanism transparent to all stakeholders.

Impartiality: We hold central the tenet of impartiality, which underpins our unique capacity to act as a neutral facilitator to support the cooperative development of the UPR mechanism through objective, reliable information and interactive dialogue.

Inclusiveness: Through our work both online and offline, we strive to continuously increase the quantity, diversity, accessibility, and active participation of all stakeholders in the UPR process. The UPR is everyone's concern and responsibility.

Ownership: UPR Info is convinced that transformative human rights progress is reliant upon ownership, with empowered national and international stakeholders with strong capacities aligning their goals and efforts to achieve tangible change on the ground.
UPR Info has a series of inter-related Programmes to promote the universality of the UPR process and to support a holistic engagement of all stakeholders:
- Pre-Sessions: the largest CSO platform for human rights advocacy in the world. Organised three times a year, these international conferences are an integral part of the UPR process and provide CSO with the opportunity to brief State delegations on the human rights situation in the States under Review. UPR Info pre-sessions strengthen the voice of civil society actors to allow them make a difference in an otherwise State-led mechanism.
- In-country Programme: the effective implementation of UPR recommendations is vital to realise its goal. UPR Info designed a Follow-up Programme to work with civil society and other stakeholders to help them monitor implementation.
- Enhancing State’s Capacities: our organisation works closely with government stakeholders to support their knowledge and engagement with the UPR.
- Support: UPR Info aims to bring to UPR to the national level by engaging through different media with grassroots CSOs, keeping them updated so they can use this information in their advocacy activities.
The intrinsic design of the UPR mechanism – a five year cycle, broad modalities and multiple stakeholders- demands constant monitoring at all levels to ensure its correct functioning. Through our impartial and inclusive activities, UPR Info remains at the forefront of this monitoring.