Our Stakeholder report to Afghanistan’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr Alice Storey, makes specific recommendations to the government on the issue of domestic abuse experienced by women.
Researchers
Consultancy background
In October 2023, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to Afghanistan’s fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr Alice Storey. This submission focuses on domestic abuse experienced by women. We make recommendations to the Government of Afghanistan on this issue, implementation of which would also see the country improving its human rights protection and promotion.
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.