GENEVA, Nov 4, CMC -Antigua and Barbuda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, E.P. Chet Greene, will lead his country’s delegation when its human rights record will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group on Friday.
This will be the fourth time that Antigua and Barbuda one of 14 states scheduled to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group during its upcoming session, will be making a presentation to the UPR following upon the October 2011, May 2016, and November 2021, presentations.
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 during the UPR’s scchedule which ends on November 13.
The three country representatives serving as rapporteurs for the review of Antigua and Barbuda are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia.
The documents on which the reviews are based are: the country’s national report, provided by St. John’s 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.
The UPR will also receive information provided by other stakeholders including national human rights institutions, regional organizations, and civil society groups.
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