Three reports on the human rights situation in Swaziland are now available from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These are the documents which will form the basis for the human rights review under the new UN human rights mechanism, the universal periodic review (UPR).
The reports are the:
(1) National report - the submission on the human rights situation in the country compiled by the Swazi Ministry of Justice (click HERE);
(2) Compilation of UN information - a summary of reports of the UN 'treaty bodies' (committees established by different treaties, for example, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which oversees the Convention on the Rights of the Child) (click HERE);
(3) Summary of stakeholders' information - an OHCHR compilation of submissions made by civil society organizations and the Human Rights Commission (click HERE).
The next step is for countries to put Swaziland 'on notice' about questions the country will be expected to answer when it fronts the Human Rights Council on Tuesday 4 October 2011 from 3PM-6PM (Mbabane time; GMT+2). That meeting can be watched live (with a good Internet connection) here:
http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/index.asp
Now to find a good Internet connection...
