The human rights report of Egypt might be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Common Periodic Evaluation (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Tuesday, 28 January 2025, in a gathering in Geneva that might be webcast live.
Egypt is one among 14 States to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group throughout its upcoming session from 20 to 31 January 2025. The first, second and third UPR reviews of Egypt occurred in February 2010, November 2014, and November 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 assessment.
The paperwork on which the opinions are based mostly are: 1) nationwide report – info offered by the State below assessment; 2) info contained within the stories of unbiased human rights specialists and teams, generally known as the particular procedures, human rights treaty our bodies, and different UN entities; 3) info offered by different stakeholders together with nationwide human rights establishments, regional organizations, and civil society teams.
The three reports serving as the idea for the assessment of Egypt on 28 January may be discovered here.
Location: Room 20, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
Time and date: 14:30 – 18:00, Tuesday, 28 January 2024 (Geneva time, GMT+1).
The UPR is a peer assessment of the human rights information of all 193 UN Member States. Since its first assembly was held in April 2008, all 193 UN Member States have been reviewed thrice. Throughout the fourth UPR cycle, States are once more anticipated to spell out steps they’ve taken to implement suggestions posed throughout their earlier opinions which they dedicated to observe up on and spotlight latest human rights developments within the nation.
The delegation of Egypt might be led by Badr Abdelatty, Minister of Overseas Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates, Chairman of the Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights of Egypt.
The three nation representatives serving as rapporteurs (“troika”) for the assessment of Egypt are Algeria, Bulgaria and Kuwait.
The webcast of the session might be at: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1s/k1s1re75k3
The checklist of audio system and all accessible statements to be delivered throughout the assessment of Egypt might be posted on the UPR Extranet.
The UPR Working Group is scheduled to undertake the suggestions made to Egypt on Friday, 31 January 2025, between 16:00 and 18:00 (GMT+1). The State below assessment might want to specific its positions on suggestions posed to it throughout its assessment.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).