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UPR 50 in review

Everything You Need to Know About UPR 50 

The 50th session of the Universal Periodic Review was held from 3 to 14 November 2025. 13 countries were reviewed during the session: Belarus, Malawi, Panama, Andorra, Honduras, Liberia, Mongolia, Maldives, Bulgaria, the Marshall Islands, Jamaica, Croatia and Libya.  

In collaboration with our partners, the SRI submitted reports for Malawi and the United States of America.

The United States of America was meant to be reviewed during this session, but opted out as an extension of its withdrawal from the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms.

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HRC Statements
Everything You Need to Know About UPR 50
The 50th session of the Universal Periodic Review was held from 3 to 14 November 2025. 13 countries were reviewed during the session: Belarus, Malawi, Panama, Andorra, Honduras, Liberia, Mongolia, Maldives, Bulgaria, the Marshall Islands, Jamaica, Croatia and Libya. This session included recommendations focused on women’s economic and social rights, addressing gender based violence in all its manifestations, the gendered impacts of climate change, and the degradation of the environment due to inter alia the lingering impacts of nuclear testing.
UPR Submissions 52nd session
The 52nd session of the Universal Periodic Review will take place from 4 May to 15 May 2026. 14 Countries are under review during the session: Namibia, Mozambique, Paraguay, Denmark, Somalia, Niger, Estonia, Belgium, Palau, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, Latvia and Singapore.
Did you miss it? Here’s what happened at HRC 60!
The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from 8 September to 8 October 2025. The ongoing liquidity crisis affecting the United Nations, which significantly impacts the Council’s functioning, has once again put civil society organisations under an additional and significant burden.
HRC 60: Joint Civil Society Statement on Abortion (item 8)
Find the full statement and list of signatories here: https://www.abortionstatement.org/
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The SRI has developed several databases to assist advocates, policy-makers, UN agencies, and diplomats in their sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy at national and international levels.

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