The Universal Periodic Review and the Special Procedures: Weird Picasso Abstraction or a Thought-Out Drawing?

Summary The international human rights system became massive and often difficult to understand even for lawyers themselves. Do we really need different organisations operating both worldwide locally, dozens of treaties monitoring bodies? present paper focuses on the relation between UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Special Procedures Human Rights Council (SP), two mechanisms that may, at first sight seem largely overlapping in their purpose and, yet, pulling opposite directions, causing more confusion than bringing benefits. I assert despite thematic jurisdictional overlap mechanisms, UPR SP are complementary existence necessary..