Blog Article
The UPR Project at BCU: Lesotho
Our Stakeholder report to Lesotho鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir and Stella Mguli, makes specific recommendations to the government on the issue of capital punishment.
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Consultancy background
In September 2024, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to Lesotho鈥檚 fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr. Amna Nazir and Stella Mguli. This submission focuses on capital punishment. We make recommendations to the Government of Lesotho on the abolition of the death penalty, the implementation of which would also see the country moving towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
About the UPR Project at BCU
The Centre for Human Rights (CHR)聽has been engaging with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) since 2016. Under the auspice of the UN Human Rights Council, the UPR is an intergovernmental process providing a review of the human rights record of all UN Member States. Created in 2018, the UPR Project at BCU聽engages with the UPR through聽three streams of work: (1) research, (2) education, and (3) practice.
Our practice-based work includes taking part in the聽UPR Pre-sessions, providing capacity building for UPR stakeholders (including civil society organisations and National Human Rights Institutions), alongside the filing of聽stakeholder reports in selected sessions, and international and domestic advocacy.聽
The UPR Project聽is designed to help meet the challenges facing the safeguarding of human rights around the world, and to help聽ensure that UPR recommendations are translated into domestic legal change in member state parliaments. We fully support the UPR ethos of encouraging the sharing of best practice globally to protect everyone's human rights.