Kazakhstan getting ready for UPR procedure

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations. As one of the main features of the Council, the UPR is designed to ensure equal treatment for every country when their human rights situations are assessed.

 According to Ambassador-at-large of the Kazakh MFA Madina Dzharbussynova the purpose of the seminar is to inform reps of state bodies and non-governmental organizations of details of the UPR procedure.

 "Kazakhstan jointed almost to all international agreements and treaties on human rights and 2008 was not an exclusion in our progressive advance to way of democratization and implementation of our obligations in human rights", - she noticed.

 According to M. Dzharbussynova over 80 UN member-countries passed the UPR procedure.