Every year the 193 members of the United Nations make recommendations to and observationsabout other member states with respect to human rights under the UniversalPeriodic Review (UPR). In this paper we analyze the impact of ideological alignment in theleft-right spectrum between countries on the human rights recommendations sent withinthe UPR. By combining UPR records with the rich data from the Database of Political Institutionswe determine if shared ideology between two country governments impacts humanrights policy. By using text-mining techniques we analyze the sentiment of messages andcharacterize them as positive or negative. We provide robust evidence that ideologicallyaligned governments send more positive and praising messages compared to non-alignedones.