The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a human rights mechanism conducted in Geneva, Switzerland, under the UN Human Rights Council, beginning in 2008.
In the UPR, each UN member country undergoes a review of its human rights record on a cyclical basis, and unlike other UN human rights processes carried out by experts and expert committees, in the UPR, each country’s fulfillment of their human rights obligations is reviewed by its fellow countries. Civil society organizations like C-Fam are also invited to contribute their own country-level reports ahead of reviews, highlighting areas of progress or concern.
See below for C-Fam’s direct submissions to the UPR process as well as our coverage and analysis of the UPR mechanism.
C-Fam Engagement with the UPR
October 28, 2021
Friday Faxes/Posts
UN Committee Says Abortion is a Race Issue
September 5, 2024
What’s New on the C-Fam Human Rights Database?
July 10, 2024
International Abortion Giant Pressures American States on Abortion
January 18, 2024
Countries Praise Russia’s Pro-Family Policies at Human Rights Forum
December 7, 2023
UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies Continue to Violate their Mandates
November 9, 2023
C-Fam Calls on UN Racism Committee to Avoid Abortion
August 17, 2023
U.S. Pressures Benin to Withdraw from Pro-Life Document
February 2, 2023
Biden Administration Signals Intention to Overturn Helms Amendment to UN Human Rights Review
March 12, 2021
U.S. Pushes Back on Abortion at Human Rights Council
November 12, 2020
State Department Pushes Gay Sodomy as Human Right
November 5, 2020
UNFPA calls on “all stakeholders” to increase pressure on abortion
February 28, 2019
U.S. Diplomats Push Homosexual Issues on Developing World
November 29, 2018
UN Human Rights System Becomes Pro-Abortion Echo Chamber
November 26, 2014
Research and Other Materials
What is the Universal Periodic Review?
September 15, 2019
