Dominica’s human rights report can be below overview for the fourth time by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Common Periodic Evaluate (UPR) Working Group throughout a session on Thursday. The nation is one in every of 14 states scheduled for overview through the present UPR session, which is able to conclude on November 15.
This marks the fourth time that Dominica has undergone the UPR course of, following its earlier evaluations in December 2009, Might 2014, and Might 2019. The UPR supplies a platform for nations to current their human rights efforts and challenges, with suggestions from different UN member states geared toward enhancing human rights circumstances. The continued overview of Dominica will assess the progress made since its final analysis and tackle any ongoing or rising human rights points.
The Dominica delegation can be led by the Minister for Overseas Affairs, Worldwide Enterprise, Commerce and Power, Dr Vince Henderson.
The three nation representatives serving as rapporteur for the overview of Dominica are Brazil, Kuwait, and Somalia.
The UPR Working Group is comprised of the 47 Member States of the Human Rights Council. Nonetheless, every of the 193 UN Member States can take part in a rustic overview.
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The paperwork on which the evaluations are primarily based are the nationwide report by which info supplied by the State below overview, the data contained within the experiences of unbiased human rights consultants and teams, often called the particular procedures, human rights treaty our bodies, and different UN entities in addition to info supplied by different stakeholders together with nationwide human rights establishments, regional organisations, and civil society teams.
The UPR mentioned that the three experiences will function the premise for the overview of Dominica.
The UPR is a peer overview of the human rights data of all 193 UN Member States. Since its first assembly was held in April 2008, all 193 UN Member States have been reviewed thrice. In the course of the fourth UPR cycle, States are once more anticipated to spell out steps they’ve taken to implement suggestions posed throughout their earlier evaluations which they dedicated to observe up on and spotlight current human rights developments within the nation.
The UPR Working Group is scheduled to undertake the suggestions made to Dominica on Wednesday November 13 and it provides that Dominica could want to specific its positions on suggestions posed to it throughout its overview.
