A/RES/65/281 Annex Outcome of the review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council 2 I. Universal periodic review A. Basis, principles and objectives of the review 1. The basis, principles and objectives of the universal periodic review as set forth in paragraphs 1 to 4 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007 3 shall be reaffirmed. B. Periodicity and order of the review 2. The second cycle of the review shall begin in June 2012. 3. The periodicity of the review for the second and subsequent cycles will be four and a half years. This will imply the consideration of forty-two States per year during three sessions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review. 4. The order of review established for the first cycle of the review shall be maintained for the second and subsequent cycles. C. Process and modalities of the review 1. Focus and documentation 5. The review during the second and subsequent cycles will continue to be based on the three documents identified in paragraph 15 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1. 6. The second and subsequent cycles of the review should focus on, inter alia, the implementation of the accepted recommendations and the developments in the human rights situation in the State under review. 7. The general guidelines for universal periodic review reports adopted by the Council in its decision 6/102 of 27 September 2007 4 shall be adjusted to the focus of the second and subsequent cycles before the eighteenth session of the Council. 8. Other relevant stakeholders are encouraged to include in their contributions information on the follow-up to the preceding review. 9. The summary of the information provided by other relevant stakeholders should contain, where appropriate, a separate section for contributions by the national human rights institution of the State under review that is accredited in full compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (“the Paris Principles”), contained in the annex to General Assembly resolution 48/134 of 20 December 1993. Information provided by other accredited national human rights institutions will be reflected accordingly, as well as information provided by other stakeholders. _______________ 2 Changes to the universal periodic review contained in section I of the present text shall be applicable as of the second cycle of the review. 3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/62/53), chap. IV, sect. A. 4 Ibid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. I, sect. B. 3