In April 2023, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a report to Germany’s UPR, led by Dr Alice Storey. This report focuses on domestic abuse, particularly from a women’s rights perspective.
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Consultancy background
This Stakeholder Report focuses upon domestic abuse experienced by women and makes recommendations to the Government of Germany on this key issue, implementation of which would see Germany move towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5, which aims for “gender equality and empowering all women and girls”.
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.