The UPR is a process through which human rights policies are recommended by UN member states to the state under review. As a new element, civil society organizations (CSO) can usher their own views. This paper shows the considerable extent to which official UPR state recommendations do in fact reflect perspectives and themes contained in recommendations of CSO. While these findings do not prove that CSO recommendations lead to related state recommendations, they do show that at least state recommendations encompass CSO recommendations to a significant extent. In general, the research suggests that CSO engagement in the UPR process is worthwhile and should be accentuated.