Articles and analyses

NGOs

Lobbying

 Corrections on the Brazilian Report of the WG on the UPR - A/HRC/WG.6/1/BRA/4

 Oceania Human Rights: "Tonga: The Pacific Kingdom Promoting Greater Human Rights in Region"

 Oceania Human Rights: FRANCE: Focusing Specifically on Indigenous Peoples in the Pacific

 Conectas, Suggestions of questions and recommendations to be addressed to Brazil for the UPR

Analyses

 Quakers’ analysis on the two first year of the HRC with a section on the UPR: "Digging foundations or trenches?", August 2008.

 International Service for Human Rights, Analytical overview of the UPR, April-June 2008, August 2008.

 Democracy Coalition Project, "Government Positions on establishing a credible UPR mechanism".

 Theodor Rathgeber, "The HRC Universal Periodic Review: A preliminary assesment", July 2008.

 Tiffany Henderson, "Towards implementation: an analysis of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the Human Rights Council", June 2008.

 Aim for Human Rights, Collection of remarks on Enforced Disappearances during the 2nd session of the UPR, June 2008

 Alejandra Sardá, "Second session of the Universal Periodic Review - Sexual Rights and Women’s Issues", Mulabi- Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos/Sexual Rights Initiative

 Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos, Analysis on Argentina’s review in the Working Group, 16 April 2008

 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), "Building the New Human Rights Council. Outcome and analysis of the institution-building year", N° 33 / August 2007

 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) "Civil Society Involvement in the UPR - the example of Indonesia". Parallel event to the 7 the session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva, 17 March 2008

 International Service for Human Rights: Overview of the first UPR Session

 Alejandra Sardá, "First session of the Universal Periodic Review - Sexual Rights and Women’s Issues", Mulabi- Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos/Sexual Rights Initiative

 Lucia Nader, "The role of NGOs in the UN Human Rights Council",http://www.surjournal.org; Also available in Spanish and Portuguese