A UPR Perspective on Capital Punishment and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Q3 Social Sciences

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI:10.1515/mwjhr-2022-0015

Amna Nazir

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Abstract

Abstract The Universal Periodic Review (UPR), established in 2006, has been hailed as an innovative mechanism of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The peer review mechanism assesses the human rights records of all UN Member States and provides recommendations to further the global promotion and protection of human rights. This article provides an analysis of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s third UPR in 2018 with a specific focus on the State’s use of capital punishment. It explores the challenges faced by the UPR and issues recommendations to foster meaningful discourse, in the international community, to protect the right to life and engender change at the domestic level.

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死刑与沙特阿拉伯王国的普遍定期审议

摘要普遍定期审议成立于2006年，被誉为联合国人权理事会的创新机制。同行审查机制评估所有联合国会员国的人权记录，并为进一步在全球促进和保护人权提供建议。本文分析了沙特阿拉伯王国2018年的第三次普遍定期审议，特别关注该国使用死刑的情况。它探讨了普遍定期审议面临的挑战，并提出了建议，以促进国际社会进行有意义的讨论，保护生命权并在国内一级促成变革。

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Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.