Three Categories of International Comments on National Human Rights Action Plans and Their Implications — An Analysis Based on UPRr Reports

At least 57 countries have formulated and implemented 78 national human rights action plans, and the international assess- ment of them has had direct influence on their international human rights images of their issuers and the focuses of future planning. Ac- cording to related reports from the Universal Periodic Review by the United Nations Human Rights Council, three categories of comments in a rough quantitative proportion of 1:4:2 have been made by the international community on these plans, which can be categorized as: Attention, Laudatory and Expectation, representing objective atten- tion, appreciation or encouragement and anticipation of further im- plementation or improvement, respectively. In terms of regions, Asian countries have received the most Attention Comments, Europe and Africa fewer, and America the least. The marked achievements in the formulation and implementation of human rights action plans in China have attracted widespread attention and recognition, and further ef- forts should be made to implement steady and consistent human rights policies, improve the implementation mechanisms and integrate the external and internal functions of human rights action plans so as to promote the sustainable development of China's human rights cause.