LHRC convenes Upr midterm review stakeholders’ consultation session.

Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) convened a Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Consultative Session. The session was convened on May 13 and 14, 2024, at the Flomi Hotel Morogoro.

The session gathered more than 50 stakeholders working on different thematic areas, including but not limited to civil and political rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, minority and PWDs rights, general human rights, economic rights, social rights, and civil society and human rights defenders in general.

This consultative session is part and parcel of the UPR process, for which Tanzania is expected to be reviewed for a midterm period from 2022 to 2024. A shadow report is expected to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in November 2024 for the period 2022–2024.

The report shall, among other things, incorporate recommendations that Tanzania has accepted to implement in thematic areas, namely: 
(i) Women’s  rights; 
(ii) Minority groups and PWDs
(iii) Child rights 
( iv) Freedom of expression 
association and assembly.
(v) General human rights
(vi) Civil society and human rights defenders
( vii) Social rights
( viii) Economic rights and land rights

UPR is part and parcel of the UN human rights review mechanism, in which all 193 UN members are involved, unlike in the treaty-based mechanism, where only treaty body members are involved.