From Country-specific Review to Universal Periodic Review:A Fairer International Human Rights Mechanism

In the Country-specific by the Commission on Human Rights,developed countries lead selective supervision and review the human rights conditions in developing countries,contributing to the inequality in the roles of developed and developing countries and highlighting the unfairness and unreasonableness of the international human rights mechanism.In the Universal Periodic Review by the Human Rights Council,developed countries and developing countries are procedurally equal when evaluating the human rights conditions of other countries,and the evaluation of human rights conditions has transitioned from selective to universal.The development from the Country-specific Review to the Universal Periodic Review system is the result of China and other developing countries working together to optimize the internal governance structure of the Human Rights Council to rationalize its operational logic.Although the Universal Periodic Review system cannot immediately change the predominant status of the Western human rights discourse,it provides a mechanism for all countries to express their human rights values on an equal footing.It is an important manifestation of a fairer and more reasonable international human rights mechanism.