Led by Dr Amna Nazir, our Stakeholder report to Ethiopia’s Universal Periodic Review makes specific recommendations to the government regarding (1) child, early and forced marriage; and (2) capital punishment.
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Consultancy background
In March 2024, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to Ethiopia’s fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr Amna Nazir. This submission focuses on (1) child, early and forced marriage; and (2) capital punishment. We make recommendations to the Government of Ethiopia on these key issues, implementation of which would see Ethiopia move towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5 and 16 which aim for ‘gender equality and empowering all women and girls’, ‘inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’, and ‘access to justice for all’.
About the UPR Project at BCU
The Centre for Human Rights (CHR) has been engaging with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) since 2016. Under the auspice of the Human Rights Council, the UPR is an intergovernmental process providing a review of the human rights record of all Member States.
Through the UPR Project at BCU, the CHR we engage with the UPR through taking part in the UPR Pre-sessions, providing capacity building for UPR stakeholders and National Human Rights Institutions, and the filing of stakeholder reports in selected sessions. The UPR Project is designed to help meet the challenges facing the safeguarding of human rights around the world, and to help ensure that UPR recommendations are translated into domestic legal change in member state parliaments.
We fully support the UPR ethos of encouraging the sharing of best practice globally to protect everyone's human rights. The UPR Project at BCU engages with the UPR regularly as a stakeholder, having submitted numerous reports and been cited by the OHCHR.