The human rights document of Dominica shall be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Common Periodic Evaluation (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Thursday in a gathering in Geneva.
Dominica is considered one of 14 States to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group throughout its upcoming session from Nov. 4 to fifteen . The first, second and third UPR reviews of Dominica passed off in December 2009, Might 2014, and Might 2019, respectively.
The UPR Working Group is comprised of the 47 Member States of the Human Rights Council. Nevertheless, every of the 193 UN Member States can take part in a rustic evaluation.
The paperwork on which the opinions are primarily based are: 1) nationwide report – data offered by the State beneath evaluation; 2) data contained within the stories of unbiased human rights specialists and teams, often called the particular procedures, human rights treaty our bodies, and different UN entities; 3) data offered by different stakeholders together with nationwide human rights establishments, regional organizations, and civil society teams.
The three stories serving as the premise for the evaluation of Dominica on 5 November could be discovered here.
