Singapore’s Universal Periodic Review: Civil Society Trends and Themes

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
James Gomez ◽  
Michelle D’cruz
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Universal Periodic Review

scholarly journals Civil Society Organisations and LGBT+ Rights in Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-208
Author(s):  
Paul Chaney ◽  
Seuty Sabur ◽  
Sarbeswar Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Universal Periodic Review ◽  
Contemporary Situation

This article explores civil society organizations’ (CSOs) views on the contemporary situation of LGBT+ people in Bangladesh. It is a lacuna requiring attention because of the country’s poor and deteriorating equality and human rights record. Here we analyse the level of attention to prevailing human rights violations and apply critical frame analysis to the corpus of CSOs’ submissions to the United Nations third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 2013–2018. These reveal how a series of key pathologies—including, violence, intimidation and discrimination—affect the lives of LGBT+ people. The wider significance of this study lies in highlighting that, while not a replacement for justiciable rights, the discursive processes offered by the UPR are of key significance in seeking to advance LGBT+ rights in countries like Bangladesh where oppression combines with extremism and political elites’ refusal to embrace equality in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation.

scholarly journals Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in Nigeria: Civil Society Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 330-344
Author(s):  
Uchenna Emelonye
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Universal Periodic Review ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Government

Civil society organizations are key actors in the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria and have participated in all the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) circles of the Government of Nigeria.  The UPR is a first of its kind innovation adopted in 2006 by the Human Rights Council to complement the works of treaty bodies and involves the review on a periodic basis, the human rights records of all Member States of the United Nations. As a peer review process comprising three distinct stages and involving three major sources of information, this article exclusively ex-rays the UPR civil society report on the implementation of Nigeria’s international human rights obligations. As one of the three sources of information relied upon by the Human Rights Council in the Universal Periodic Review of the human rights record of the Government of Nigeria, this article, while focusing on the civil society information submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/251 concludes that despite advances in the promotion and protection of human rights claimed in its national report to be made in the implementation of international human rights obligations, there are still, from civil society lens, plethora of issues and gaps in the implementation of Nigeria’s international human rights obligations.

Integrating the UNCAC and the UNTOC for Effective Prevention and International Cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Uglješa Ugi Zvekić
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Universal Periodic Review ◽  
The One ◽  
International Instruments

Abstract The inextricable links between transnational organized crime, on the one hand, and corruption, on the other, require a more integrated approach between the international instruments aimed at preventing and tackling such phenomena, i.e., respectively, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the UN Convention against Corruption, as well as between their review mechanisms. Moreover, the role played by civil society in the framework of the UNTOC and UNCAC review mechanisms should be furthered, thus drawing inspiration from the Universal Periodic Review.

scholarly journals Civil Society, Rights and Welfare: Exploring the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Cambodia

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110588
Author(s):  
Paul Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Universal Periodic Review ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

This study examines Cambodia’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Corpus analysis of civil society organisations’ submissions to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review reveals a raft of CRC violations, including sexual abuse, trafficking and child labour. This is due to political and bureaucratic failings. The wider significance of this lies in underlining how the disjuncture between state and civil society underpins ongoing violations. Future progress depends on strengthened mobilisation yet increasing repression of civil society makes this unlikely. Accordingly, the prospects are bleak with children in Cambodia continuing to suffer widespread rights violations.

scholarly journals Limited Gains, Enduring Violations

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Universal Periodic Review ◽  
Monitoring Mechanism

Against the backdrop of continuing rights violations in Bangladesh, this article analyses issue-salience and framing in the policy discourse of civil society organizations (CSOs) and state elites on the implementation of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Data from the reports submitted to the second-cycle United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the official monitoring mechanism associated with UN rights treaties, show how state discourse is framed in instrumental, administrative terms. In contrast, civil society discourse is critically framed and highlights poor implementation and enforcement of the CRC, poverty and corruption. This helps to explain on-going rights violations in an increasingly hostile political context wherein government is unresponsive to civil society claims, mobilization is suppressed and CSOs are forced to focus on service delivery and advocacy functions.

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