Uchenna Emelonye
Country Representative, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - LIBERIA
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmra/v4-i6-18Google Scholar Download Pdf
Abstract:
With the creation of the Human Rights Council Universal Period Review, its Working Group established in accordance with Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 of 18th June, 2007 held its fourth session from 2nd to 13th of February, 2009 to review the human rights record of countries including Nigeria.2
In preparation for the review, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria had constituted a broad-based UPR National Consultative Committee tasked with the responsibility of compiling its first national report on the steps taken as well as the challenges faced in the fulfilment of its treaty obligations. The Committee which comprised representatives from diverse stakeholders working for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria subsequently convened the National Consultative Forum (NCF) and after series of meetings, produced the country’s first UPR national report, through a consultative process that climaxed in a national validation conference. During the deliberation of the forum, every human rights issue was openly discussed and participants were able to express their views freely. The outcome of the NCF is faithfully reflected in the national report.
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1) Dialectics of Rights: Nigeria’s Engagement with the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council (2021) Safari
Publisher and National Human Rights Commission
2) Human Rights Council Decision 6/102 setting out the General Guideline for the preparation of information under the UPR
3) Human Rights Council, Eleventh Session (2009) Agenda Item 6, Universal Periodic Review A/HRC/11/26
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National Report submitted in accordance with paragraph 15(a) of the annex to the Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1
NIGERIA
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Compilation prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in accordance with paragraph 15(b) of
the annex to Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 NIGERIA
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annex to Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 NIGERIA
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National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to the Human Rights Council Resolution 16/21
NIGERIA
9) Human Rights Council, Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (31st Session) 2018 A/HRC/WG.6//31/NGA/1
National Report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to the Human Rights Council Resolution 16/21
NIGERIA
10) Human Rights Council, Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (31st Session) 2018 A/HRC/WG.6//31/NGA/2
Compilation prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in accordance with 5/1 and 16/21
NIGERIA
11) Human Rights Council, Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (31st Session) 2018 A/HRC/WG.6//31/NGA/3
Compilation of stakeholders submission prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
accordance with 5/1 and 16/21 NIGERIA
VOLUME 04 ISSUE 06 JUNE 2021
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