Our Stakeholder report to Malawi’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendations to the government on the issue of capital punishment.
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Consultancy background
In April 2025, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to Malawi’s fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr. Amna Nazir. This submission focuses on capital punishment. We make recommendations to the Government of Malawi on capital punishment. The implementation of these issue would also see the country moving towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
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 UN Human Rights Council, the UPR is an intergovernmental process providing a review of the human rights record of all UN Member States. Created in 2018, the UPR Project at BCU engages with the UPR through three streams of work: (1) research, (2) education, and (3) practice.
Our practice-based work includes taking part in the UPR Pre-sessions, providing capacity building for UPR stakeholders (including civil society organisations and National Human Rights Institutions), alongside the filing of stakeholder reports in selected sessions, and international and domestic advocacy.
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.