United Nations reporting mechanisms

This second clip on the UN human rights system zooms in on the Charter- and treaty-based reporting procedures, discussing also the advantages and disadvantages of these processes. 0:00 Introduction 0:35 The purpose of monitoring 1:35 The Universal Period Review 3:17 Special sessions and procedures 4:16 Reporting before UN treaty bodies 5:28 Interaction between mechanisms 6:21 Limitations of the systems Reading: • Jane Connors, "United Nations", chapter 19 in Daniel Moeckli et al., International Human Rights Law (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2017) Reading Question: • There are various kinds of state reporting and reviewing procedures under the UN human rights system. What are the merits of such mechanisms and what are some of their challenges? This video series was created for a third-year undergraduate course in international human rights law at University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands.