UPR Info
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| Motto | Promoting and strengthening the UPR |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Roland Chauville, Jean-Claude Vignoli |
| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | UPR Mechanism, UN, Human Rights Council, Human Rights |
| Headquarters | 3, Rue de Varembé, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland Phone: + 41 22 321 77 70 |
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Area served
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worldwide |
| Products | Handbooks, Factsheets, Analyses, trainings |
| Services | Pre-sessions, Follow-up Programme, database on UPR recommendations |
| Method | Strengthening national human rights protection systems, supporting governments, institutions, and human rights defenders, leading and participating in coalitions for the UPR |
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Key people
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Mona M'Bikay - Executive Director Miloon Kothari – Chair |
| Mission | Make the UPR process an effective mechanism to improve human rights on the ground |
| Website | upr-info.org |
UPR Info is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) headquartered in Switzerland, with a regional office in Kenya. The organisation main goal is to raise awareness and provide capacity-building tools to the different actors of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, such as United Nations Member States, NGOs, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) and civil society actors. It was established in 2008 and is in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
UPR Info organises "Pre-sessions" before the actual UPRs. Over the years, the Pre-session project has allowed hundreds of civil society organisations to take part in the largest human rights advocacy platform in the world. UPR Info has released major publications about the implementation of the Universal Periodic Review recommendation, notably in 2014, "Beyond promises: the impact of the UPR on the ground", and in 2016 "The Butterfly effect: spreading good practices of UPR Implementation", widely praised by NGOs, States and institutions.
The material produced by the organisation, in particular its database that includes over 55,000 UPR recommendations, has been used by several scholars to document the UPR mechanism.
UPR Info launched in 2016, together with CCPR Centre, DOCIP, Huridocs, and Save the Children, an initiative called "We Pay Our Interns" to promote a basic stipend for internships in Geneva. It was quickly supported by dozens of NGOs.
UPR Info was founded in 2008 by Roland Chauville. He was joined by Jean-Claude Vignoli at the initial stage of the organisation.
The current executive director is Mona M'Bikay since September 2017.
From 2011 to 2015, Bertrand Ramcharan was UPR Info's first elected president.
Since 2015, Miloon Kothari fulfils this role.
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