UPR Sessions

According to the Human Rights Council’s “institution-building package”, the Universal Periodic Review Working Group will hold three two-week sessions per year. During each session 16 countries will be reviewed, therefore 48 countries per year and 192 countries by 2011, or the entire UN membership over the course of the first UPR cycle (2008-2011). On 21 September 2007, the Human Rights Council adopted a calendar detailing the order in which the 192 UN Member States will be considered during the first four-year cycle. Each review is facilitated by groups of three States, or “troikas”, who act as rapporteurs.

The following is the list of sessions scheduled for the 1st four-year cycle, including the list of countries being reviewed during the session, as well as the timetable for each two-week session and the list of “troikas” for each review, where available: 

(Please note: The order of review, timetables and list of troikas are only determined shortly before the respective sessions. All documents below are available in Pdf format)

1st session 7-18 April 2008 (list of countries / timetable / list of troikas)

2nd session 5-16 May 2008 (list of countries / timetable / list of troikas)

3rd session 1-15 December 2008 (list of countries / timetable / list of troikas)

4th session 2-13 February 2009 (list of countries / timetable / list of troikas)

5th session 4-15 May 2009 (list of countries / timetable / list of troikas)

6th session (late 2009) (list of countries)

7th session (early 2010) (list of countries)

8th session (mid 2010) (list of countries)

9th session (late 2010) (list of countries)

10th session (early 2011) (list of countries)

11th session (mid 2011) (list of countries)

12th session (late 2011) (list of countries)