The UPR Project at BCU: El Salvador

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Our Stakeholder report to El Salvador’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr Rebecca Smyth, Dr Rebecca Lawrence and Dr Alice Storey, makes specific recommendations to the government on the issue of (1) Access to abortion and (2) Prisoner’s rights.

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Consultancy background

In July 2024, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to El Salvador’s fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr Rebecca Smyth, Dr Rebecca Lawrence and Dr Alice Storey. This submission focuses on access to abortion and prisoner’s rights. We make recommendations to the Government of El Salvador on access to abortion and prisoner’s rights. The implementation of these issue would also see the country moving towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 which aims for gender equality and empowering all women and girls and 16 which aims for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

Read the full report here

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.