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The Commonwealth Secretariat is fully committed to supporting both the new universal review process and the active, informed and full participation of states and stakeholders from the Commonwealth. Thanks to financial support from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), in March 2008 the Secretariat’s Human Rights Unit (HRU) began an detailed programme of work that addressed these objectives...
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The now defunct UN Commission on Human Rights examined and monitored human rights concerns on a selective country-by-country basis. The Commission was discredited by its perceived politicisation, which hindered constructive dialogue on human rights issues. In 2006, the Human Rights Council replaced the Com mission and, together with other changes, introduced the new UPR mechanism under Resolution 5 / 1
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The Universal Periodic Review is widely perceived to be a tool of the Human Rights Council (HRC), which meets in Geneva. It is indeed that, but that is not all. It is help - ful to consider the UPR both as a mechanism and a process. The mechanism is the part that takes place in Geneva and the process is a much larger and longer pro - ject that begins before the Geneva element and extends considerably beyond it.
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