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national jurisprudence, human rights infrastructure including national human rights
institutions and scope of international obligations identified in the “basis of review” in
resolution 5/1, annex, section IA;
C.
Promotion and protection of human rights on the ground: implementation of
international human rights obligations identified in the “basis of review” in resolution 5/1,
annex, section IA, national legislation and voluntary commitments, national human rights
institutions activities, public awareness of human rights, cooperation with human rights
mechanisms …;
D.
Presentation by the State concerned of the follow-up to the previous review;
E.
Identification of achievements, best practices, challenges and constraints in
relation to the implementation of accepted recommendations and the development of
human rights situations in the State;
F.
Key national priorities, initiatives and commitments that the State concerned
has undertaken and intends to undertake to overcome those challenges and constraints and
improve human rights situations on the ground;
G.
Expectations of the State concerned in terms of capacity-building and
requests, if any, for technical assistance and support received.
III.
Review
Duration of the review in the Working Group on the Universal Periodic
3.
The duration of the review shall be extended to three hours and thirty minutes
for each country in the Working Group, so as to be within existing resources and with no
additional workload, during which the State under review shall be given up to 70 minutes to
be used for initial presentation, replies and concluding comments in line with President’s
statement PRST/8/1 of 9 April 2008.
4.
annex II.
IV.
The allocation of time during the working group shall be in accordance with
List of speakers in the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review
5.
The established procedures, which allow three minutes speaking time for
Member States and two minutes for observer States, will continue to apply when all
speakers can be accommodated within three hours and thirty minutes available to Member
and observer States.
6.
Should it be impossible to accommodate all speakers within three hours and
thirty minutes based on three minutes speaking time for Member States and two minutes for
observer States, the speaking time will be reduced to two minutes for all.
7.
If all speakers still cannot be accommodated, the speaking time will be
divided among all delegations inscribed so as to enable each and every speaker to take the
floor.
8.
Steps for drawing up the list of speakers:
(a)
The list of speakers will open at 10 a.m. on the Monday of the week
preceding the beginning of the session of the Working Group and will remain open for a
period of four days. It will close on the Thursday at 6 p.m.. A registration desk will be set
up at the Palais des Nations. The exact location will be communicated to all permanent
missions by the Secretariat;
(b)
In all cases, regardless of speaking times, the delegations inscribed on the list
of speakers will be arranged by alphabetical order of the country names in English. On the
Friday morning preceding the beginning of the session, the President, in the presence of the
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