The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council: An Assessment of the First Session

Dominguez-Redondo, Elvira

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“…15 In the first decade of its existence, much scholarly attention has been dedicated to examining the UPR experience of particular states 16 as well as to assessing whether the UPR has, or has not, enhanced fulfilment of human rights obligations. 17 In recent years, as the mechanism matures, scholars have sought to stand back and understand the UPR more generally as a phenomenon warranting examination in and of itself. In the latter category of writing, the ideas of ritual and ritualism, 18 public audit, 19 and the distinction between law and politics 20 are just three devices which have been employed to analyse the mechanism's operation and routine activity.…”

Section: Situating the Universal Periodic Review Actants And Timementioning

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How Time Matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, Objects, and Time Creation

McNeilly

2021

SSRN Journal

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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council is an innovative monitoring mechanism in the international human rights law system. As the UPR matures, scholars have increasingly sought to stand back and understand it as a process. In this article, I take work in this vein further by considering more closely the actors involved in the UPRhumans and objectsand highlighting the time creating effects that emerge from the relationships between them. Across the various stages of the UPR, a range of temporalitiesfrom cyclicality and linearity to retrogression and suspension of timeare produced and sustained by people, reports, data, lists, microphones, screens, computers, action plans, and desks, just to name a few. I argue from this that time is materially made in the review process, often in micro and taken for granted ways. In its operation, the UPR appears as a collection of temporal assemblages. Or, in language drawn from Actor Network Theory (ANT), an assortment of fluid and interweaving sets of actants networked together who generate ideas of time across its practice. Apprehending time creation in this material, ANT-inflected way is highly significant for scholars and practitioners interested in the UPR. It holds potential to influence how this process can be understood, approached, and located within international human rights law as itself a larger, time creating actor-network.

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Section: Situating the Universal Periodic Review Actants And Timementioning

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How Time Matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, Objects, and Time Creation

McNeilly

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…97 The UPR was at the centrepiece of the reforms in the move from the Commission to the HRC precisely because it treated States equally. 98 As UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said peer review would send a 'clear message that all countries would have their human rights record and performance examined.' 99 Yet there has been some evidence of the continuation of factionalism and double standards at the HRC, with different blocs of States engaging in behaviour that favours their political allies.…”

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Reservations to human rights treaties in recommendations from the universal periodic review: an emerging practice?

Cowell

2020

The International Journal of Human Rights

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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process of the UN Human Rights Council has issued thousands of recommendations to States undergoing the review process. An increasing number of them concern legal subjects and this article explores recommendations in relation to reservations to human right treaties. Although the UPR process was designed to be distinct to treaty bodies UPR recommendations are increasingly overlapping with their work. The UPR process is showing signs of developing its own approach to reservations which could help address the problem of impermissible recommendations to human rights treaties.

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“…Some of the major criticisms towards the CHR encompassed membership of known abuser states, naming and shaming of countries through country-specific resolutions, absence of membership criteria, etc. (Redondo 2008). Additionally, Israel has argued that it has been denied membership in the Asian Group by its Arab members and that the Commission has increasingly evolved towards a biased slant against Israel 5 (Freedman 2011: 26).…”

Section: Assessing the Role Of The Un Human Rights Council: Old Wine mentioning

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Evidence for Hope? Assessing the Role of the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs on the Course of the Palestinian Question

Gök

2019

NMES

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The Palestinian Question has been at the heart of the United Nations (UN) since its establishment. Yet, the “intergovernmental” mechanisms of the world organization have proven to be largely ineffective in finding a just and sustainable solution to one of the most important and intractable issues of the UN-era. In between political and diplomatic struggles, the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs on Palestine are increasingly regarded as the only truly independent and expert voices as well as valuable sources of information regarding the issue. However, the special rapporteurs are one of the least studied aspects of the UN regarding the Palestinian question. Drawing highly on the social constructivist premise on the role of ideas and norms in constructing/deconstructing the legitimacy discourse in international politics, this study attempts to theoretically question and empirically analyse how the “actorness” of the special rapporteurs have the potential to affect the course of the Palestinian question. The article concludes that the mobilization of normative arguments on the Palestinian Question at the transnational level and framing the issue for collective debate supported by technical and knowledge-based legal expertise of UN Special Rapporteurs may confer a renewed legitimizing role for the United Nations.

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The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council: An Assessment of the First Session

Cited by 18 publications

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How Time Matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, Objects, and Time Creation

How Time Matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, Objects, and Time Creation

Reservations to human rights treaties in recommendations from the universal periodic review: an emerging practice?

Evidence for Hope? Assessing the Role of the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs on the Course of the Palestinian Question

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