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outcome of the review were to be submitted. (Resolution 5/1 did not provide details regarding
the report of the outcome of the review. In April 2008, the President of the Council provided
additional details about these reports, but did not define their length.) Sixteen State party reports
were examined at each of the first two sessions, and reports on each State were presented to the
Council at its eighth session.
Table 1
Documents processed for the universal periodic review
Sessions
First universal
periodic review
session
Second session
Pre-session Additional
pre-session
pages
forecast
pages
processed
594
620
555
640
Report submitted
to the Human
Rights Council
Total pre-session Outcome
pages submitted
reports
Total
(No. of pages)
1 214
419
1 6372
(66 documents)
1 195
452
1 6483
(65 documents)
1 001
1 001
(55 documents)
A detailed explanation of the documents submission for the two universal periodic review
sessions is submitted in annex IV.
8.
Documentation to be submitted for the third session (to be held in December 2008) of the
universal periodic review is forecast to comprise 1,038 standard pages (48 documents) for the
pre-session, 467 pages (16 documents) for the session itself, and 285 pages (17 documents) for
the post-session, making a total of 1,790 pages and 81 documents. It is anticipated that future
sessions will follow this documentation pattern.
2. Costs of the documentation
9.
The pre- and post-session universal periodic review documents for the first two sessions of
the working group in 2008, together with the pre-session documents submitted to the Council
(1,001 estimated standard pages), comprise a total of 186 documents, amounting to
4,286 estimated standard pages of text. Based on the actual number of estimated standard pages
submitted for translation into the six official languages, as well as reproduction and distribution
during the first two sessions of the working group (i.e., excluding the 1,001 pages of universal
2
Includes four pages of corrigenda.
3
Includes one page of corrigenda.
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