N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to make the juvenile justice system more effective, in particular by ensuring the separate detention of juveniles as well as expeditious access of juveniles to legal counsels
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Swiftly promulgate the statute on civil societies, which will enable the civil society to perform its tasks effectively and in full autonomy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a broad based media information campaign on the rights of migrants in Arabic and in the languages of main groups of migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish all legislation, measures and practices that discriminate against women, further to the report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. In particular, to abolish legislation and practices which prevent women from participating fully in society on an equal basis with men, including strict gender segregation practices, limitations on freedom of movement, the prohibition on women driving and restricted access by women to work, public places and commercial facilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Become a party to the ICCPR and ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend legal provisions to guarantee equality between men and women, prevent violence against women, prevent threats to the safety and integrity of persons deprived of their liberty, guarantee non-discrimination on grounds of religion, belief and ethnicity, also for foreign workers, and to achieve effective implementation of these provisions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Modify the domestic legislation to be in accordance with the standards and requirements contained in the international human rights instruments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps in enabling fuller participation of women in Saudi Arabian public life by guaranteeing women and girls their right to education, employment, freedom of movement, marriage with their free and full consent and health, including protection from and redress for family violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its criminal procedural code to bring it in line with international human rights standards and conduct a systematic campaign among Saudi Arabian judges to apply this amended Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the 2008 recommendations by the CEDAW Committee, in particular by abolishing the system of male guardianship over women and enacting comprehensive and effective regulations on gender discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and adopt a comprehensive national plan of action for the incorporation of human rights for women into national legislation and practices to ensure the eradication of violence against women, a dismantling of the male guardianship system, an allowance of the freedom of movement, access to work, study, and health care, as well as equal standing before the courts and the right to vote and participate in public affairs, and incorporate and implement the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an awareness-raising programme at the local level to ensure much wider knowledge of CEDAW, and take steps to ensure the cessation of practices, including those under the guardianship system, which are inconsistent with the Convention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Become a party to the ICCPR and ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect the rights of those facing the death penalty, including through strengthened application of international safeguards in the use of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow all international human rights organizations wishing to do so to visit the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the strict system of male guardianship and give full legal identity to Saudi women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove obstacles to freedom of expression and movement against human rights defenders, including all travel bans
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of movement
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to bring legislation in line with the principle of equality between women and men as well as to develop human rights education programs for its citizens to increase awareness of their rights under international human rights instruments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance its successful experience in the field of rehabilitation of suspected and imprisoned persons for terrorism and to expand it to other penal affairs and to exchange its experience in this field with other countries
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Public security
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abide by its commitments made through the ratification of international instruments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat discrimination and violence against women and reinforce their participation in the labour market.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt all necessary measures to incriminate violence against women and to conduct a resolute penal policy to combat this scourge.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eradicate hate-speech against minorities and establish oversight mechanisms to ensure the elimination of all forms of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all appropriate measures to develop a framework of law prohibiting trafficking and other forms of exploitations, and incorporate into such legislation the comprehensive protection of children as well as the development and implementation of a reintegration assistance programme for victimized persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national strategy to include in the school system at all levels appropriate measures in the field of human rights education, in accordance with the Plan of Action 2005-2009 of the World Programme for Human Rights Education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the criminal procedural code and the code of practice of lawyers and ensure that they are in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a comprehensive national action plan for the promotion of gender equality, with a view to addressing key challenges facing women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Report regularly to relevant mechanisms of the HRC on the remittances sent by those migrant workers to their families back home in various countries of the world, in order to estimate the contribution of such remittances to the promotion of economic and social rights in developing education, housing and health in these countries
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend migrant workers rights equally to all migrant workers, regardless of their age and gender
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the guardianship system which severely limits the rights of women to act as autonomous and equal members of Saudi society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights