Blog Article
Our Stakeholder report to The Gambia鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review, led by听Dr. Amna Nazir, Stella Mguli, and Lamin Daffeh, makes specific recommendations to the government on the issue of female genital mutilation.听
Researchers
- 听听听听听听听Dr Amna Nazir
- 听听听听听听听Miss Stella Mguli
- 听听听听听听听Mr Lamin Daffeh
- 听听听听听听听Dr Alice Storey
- 听听听听听听听Professor Jon Yorke
Consultancy background
In July 2024, the UPR Project at BCU submitted a Stakeholder Report to听The Gambia鈥檚 fourth UPR cycle, led by Dr Alice Storey. This submission focuses on female genital mutilation. We make recommendations to the Government of The Gambia on this issue, implementation of which would also see the country moving towards achieving Sustainable Development听Goals 5 and 16 which aim for 鈥榞ender equality and empowering all women and girls鈥� and 鈥榓ccess to justice for all鈥�.
About the UPR Project at BCU
The Centre for Human Rights (CHR) has been engaging with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) since 2016. Under the auspice of the Human Rights Council, the UPR is an intergovernmental process providing a review of the human rights record of all Member States.
Through the UPR Project at BCU, the CHR we engage with the UPR through听taking part in the听UPR Pre-sessions, providing capacity building for UPR stakeholders and National Human Rights Institutions, and the filing of听stakeholder reports in selected sessions. The UPR Project听is designed to help meet the challenges facing the safeguarding of human rights around the world, and to help听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. The UPR Project at BCU engages听with the UPR听regularly as a stakeholder,听having submitted numerous reports and been听cited by the OHCHR.