Geneva Institute for Human Rights

The Geneva Institute for Human Rights, in cooperation with the Tunisian Ministry of Justice and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Tunisia, held a national workshop on report presentations during the second session of the Human Rights Council's universal periodic review (UPR) mechanism on December 12-13. The event took place in Tunisia.

The workshop's 20 participants represented several government agencies that contributed to Tunisia's second UPR report, which the country is set to deliver to the mechanism's Secretariat at the beginning of March. Members will then discuss the report at the UPR mechanism's 13th session in May and June, 2012.

The workshop focused on two issues: first, progress on the implementation of previous recommendations, and then the human rights situation in the country since the discussion of its first report from April, 2008.

The Geneva Institute for Human Rights has in the past month instructed staff from United Nations agencies specializing in the universal periodic review mechanism, in addition to training Tunisian NGOs on the preparation of the second UPR report.

For documents from the first comprehensive periodic review of Tunisia, please see the following link:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR%5CPAGES%5CTNS...