The human rights record of Saint Kitts and Nevis will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Tuesday bezt week at a meeting here.
The Saint Kitts and Nevis delegation will be led by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Garth Wilkin, with the three country representatives serving as rapporteurs for the review are Bolivia, Ghana and Iceland.
The twin-island Federation is one of 13 countries scheduled to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group during its upcoming session that ends on January 30.
The fist, second and third UPR reviews of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) island took place in January 2011, November 2015, and January 2021.
The UPR Working Group is comprised of the 47 member states of the Human Rights Council. However, any UN member or Observer State can participate in a country review.
The documents on which the reviews are based are national report – information provided by the State under review; information contained in the reports of independent human rights experts and groups, known as the special procedures, human rights treaty bodies, and other UN entities; information provided by other stakeholders including national human rights institutions, regional organizations, and civil society groups.
The UPR is a peer review of the human rights records of all 193 UN member states. Since its first meeting was held in April 2008, all 193 UN member states have been reviewed three times.
During the fourth UPR cycle, states are again expected to spell out steps they have taken to implement recommendations posed during their previous reviews which they committed to follow up on and highlight recent human rights developments in the country.
The UPR Working Group is scheduled to adopt the recommendations made to Saint Kitts and Nevis on Friday, January 30, this yar.