Sierra Leone: HRC-SL, Unipsil Hold Consultations With CSOs

Bo — The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRC-SL) and United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office (UNIPSIL) have wrapped-up a one-day consultative meeting with civil society organizations on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the southern provincial headquarter town of Bo.

Addressing the forum, HRC-SL chairman Edward J. Sam disclosed that the UPR was established by UN General Assembly Resolution 60/125 on 15 March 2006. He said the UPR was a unique universal human rights review mechanism that was a cooperative state-driven process.

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