A Step Ahead in Promoting Human Rights? The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12430718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Mcmahon (0000-0001-8595-3668, corresponding author), Marta Ascherio (0000-0003-3884-8384) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-248 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720 |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1163/19426720-01802006 |
| OpenAlex | W1865282209 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council is a peer review mechanism through which states make recommendations to each other regarding human rights practices. Representing new global approaches to promoting human rights, the UPR experiment is critical to the fate of the HRC. Understanding the UPR's performance is timely and of considerable importance considering that the second round of country reviews begins in May 2012. This article analyzes state and regional behavior by utilizing an innovative methodology in which recommendations are coded by level of action requested. It finds that, while long-standing North-South differences regarding definition and protection of human rights remain, the global increase of democratic states modestly attenuates this dichotomy
Democracy · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · International law · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights
IO Policy Attention Drives NGO Information Supply
Combating corruption the soft way
Creating a space for indigenous rights
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights
State promotion of global women’s rights in the Universal Periodic Review
Human Rights Norm Diffusion in Southeast Asia
The Temporal Rivalries of Human Rights
World Society Corridors
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system
The global stocktake
The 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
North Korea’s participation in the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights
State Behaviour at the Universal Periodic Review
The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations institutions in the fight against torture
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review
Intersectionality and the universal periodic review
Italy and the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Playing the two-level game
Talk of shame
National Human Rights Institutions as Expert Actors in Global Human Rights Governance
Universal Periodic Review and Policy Change
Universal Periodic Review and its Limited Change Potential
(Geo)Politics of Universal Periodic Review
Sino-Western relations, political values, and the Human Rights Council
Theoretical challenges to understanding the potential impact of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
NGOs invite attention
The prospects of human rights in US–China relations
Who gets picked on and why? The politics of North Korea’s human rights recommendations in the universal periodic review
| Citations per year | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |