Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Universal Period Review (UPR) is a relatively new mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (formerly known as the Human Rights Commission) that was implemented with a series of United Nations Reforms in April of 2008. Under the UPR, each UN Member State is subject to a human rights review every four years. The UPR was designed to promote equal treatment towards each of the UN’s 192 Member States and to increase human rights accountability and review.
North Korea completed its UPR on December 9, 2009. Click here for UN Documentation on North Korea’s UPR. Documentation is also available here, on the website of UPR Info, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization.
