Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review: Rituals and Ritualism by Hilary Charlesworth and Emma Larking (Eds.)

Excerpt

Hailed as the most innovative and unique human rights monitoring mechanism at the United Nations (UN), the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process was established in 2008. It is a peer review mechanism, whereby the human rights records of all 193 members of the UN are reviewed one every four years. Based on a conference held in Australia in 2012, this collection of works edited by Hilary Charlesworth and Emma Larking was the first sustained analysis of the UPR process. Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review: Rituals and Ritualism provides an invaluable insight into the workings and effectiveness of the relatively new human rights monitoring mechanism of the UPR process. The multiple contributions of the book, drawn from various different scholarships and backgrounds, means the reader is gifted with a comprehensive analysis of the UPR from various different lenses. …