Republic of Armenia on the threshold of the UN Universal Periodic Review
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On June 15, 2014, the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee submitted a joint report on the human rights situation in the RA in the past 4.5 years to the United Nations (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group.
What is the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)?
UPR is a special UN procedure initiated on March 15, 2006 to regularly review the human rights situation in all the 193 UN member states. The review is based on the information processed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights summarizing the data provided in the National Report by the RA Government, reports by UN treaty bodies and other stakeholders (national and international non-governmental organizations). Upon completion of the regular review, the UN UPR Working Group prepares a report to sum up the results of the review, the human rights situation in the RA and recommendations on improving the situation.
The first Universal Periodic Review of the human rights situation in the Republic of Armenia was completed in May, 2010, and the next one is scheduled for January-February, 2015.
To visit the page of Armenia Universal Periodic Review, please follow this link:
You can find the English version of the joint report of the HCA Vanadzor and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee here.