To: ambassade.paris@gouv.bj
Subject: United States UPR, 53rd session (10 November 2026) — communication to a troika rapporteur: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin
Attachments: IAJ_UPR53_Troika_Package_Benin.pdf ; IAJ_UPR_Advocacy_Brief_USA_53rd_Session.pdf

Excellency,

The Institute for the Advancement of Justice & Human Rights writes to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin in its capacity as a member of the troika of rapporteurs for the fourth-cycle review of the United States of America at the fifty-third session of the Working Group, and encloses a communication addressed to the Mission together with the Institute’s Civil-Society Advocacy Brief.

The Institute is an independent, non-governmental truth-finding organization based in the United States. The enclosed communication is the Institute’s own analysis and proposals, offered for the rapporteurs’ independent consideration in their review and reporting work. It requests nothing that would compromise the troika’s impartiality, and the Institute will not present its findings or proposals as the Mission’s position unless the Mission expressly adopts them.

Receipt, silence, discussion, or partial agreement will never be represented as endorsement by the Mission.

Should the Mission wish to raise any point or correct the record, we would be grateful to hear from the officer responsible for the Universal Periodic Review.

With respect,

Cyrus Hazari
Director
Institute for the Advancement of Justice & Human Rights
info@iaj.institute · https://iaj.institute