Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)


Sudan’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Tuesday, 1 February 2022, in a meeting that will be webcast live.

Sudan is one of the States to be reviewed by the UPR Working Group during its upcoming session from 24 January to 3 February*, which marks the end of the UPR third cycle. Sudan’s first and second UPR reviews took place in May 2011 and May 2016.

The documents on which the reviews are based are 1) national report - information provided by the State under review; 2) information contained in the reports of independent human rights experts and groups, known as the Special Procedures, human rights treaty bodies, and other UN entities; 3) information provided by other stakeholders including national human rights institutions, regional organizations and civil society groups. 

The three reports serving as the basis for the review of Sudan on 1 February can be found here

Location: Room XX (20), Palais des Nations, Geneva [NB: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the meeting will be held using a combination of in-person and remote participation, and media representatives are encouraged to follow the proceedings on the webcast. 

Time and date: 9:00-12:30, Tuesday, 1 February (Geneva time, GMT +1 hour) 

The UPR is a unique process that involves a periodic review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States. Since its first meeting was held in April 2008, all 193 UN member States have been reviewed twice within the first and second UPR cycles. During the third UPR cycle, States are again expected to spell out steps they have taken to implement recommendations posed during their previous reviews, which they committed to follow-up on and highlight recent human rights developments in the country. 

The delegation of Sudan will be led by Mr. Ali Ibn Abi Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva.

The three country representatives serving as rapporteurs (“troika”) for the review of Sudan are Gambia, Marshall Islands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The webcast of the session will be at http://webtv.un.org 

The list of speakers and all available statements to be delivered during the review of Sudan will be posted on the UPR Extranet.

The UPR Working Group is scheduled to adopt the recommendations made to Sudan at 16.30 on Thursday, 3 February. The State under review may wish to express its positions on recommendations posed to it during its review.

*The 40th session of the UPR was initially scheduled to be held in November 2021, although it was postponed due to COVID-19 measures.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

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