N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue upholding the rule of law, raising public awareness of human rights standards, and fighting against discrimination, in particular against minority groups, immigrants, and children with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively implement measures aimed at eliminating polygamy and bring the norms in line with the CEDAW in the shortest time possible.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ghana's Criminal Code be amended to decriminalise sexual activity between consenting adults.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a legal moratorium on the use of death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove impediments women may face in gaining access to justice and take special measures, in collaboration with the CHRAJ, to enhance women's awareness of their rights, and legal literacy to claim their rights.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify necessary measures to combat and sanction police brutalities.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further action to combat corruption especially in the public sector.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue improving economic, social and cultural rights.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce measures to eliminate or modify customs and harmful traditional practices that discriminate against women, eliminate FGM, put an end to harmful widowhood rites and implement protective measures for this group in relation to eviction and inheritance, and halt the practice of trokosi.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recommended the Government to take next step of abolishing the death penalty in its national legislation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recommended the adoption of a legal moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolishing capital punishment in Ghana's national legislation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further strengthen judicial structures, adopt measures against corruption in the judiciary and introduce more education and training for police, courts and social services to ensure their effective and appropriate reaction to all cases of domestic as well as other kinds of violence against women.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to address problems related to high illiteracy rates in certain parts of the country, as well as the gender gap between boys and girls in secondary and tertiary education.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action in order to provide for effective education programmes with regard to HIV-AIDS prevention.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
That Ghana's Criminal Code be amended to decriminalize sexual activity between consenting adults.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Share its experiences, inter alia, regarding the African Peer Review Mechanism and the National Reconciliation Commission.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to ensure that the initial and second reports (overdue since 2001) on the implementation of measures contained in the ICCPR, as well as in the CAT are submitted in the near future.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance its efforts in protecting children rights.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove the death penalty from its legislation and become a party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aiming at abolishing the death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to prevent child abuse and neglect and investigate cases of domestic violence, ensuring that sanctions be applied to perpetrators.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively implement measures to harmonize norms of citizenship for foreign spouses to bring these norms in line with the CEDAW in the shortest time possible.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish and implement concrete measures in conformity with CEDAW to modify and eliminate customs and cultural and harmful traditional practices that discriminate against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Systematically and continuously integrate a gender perspective in the follow up process to the UPR.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- UPR process
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pass the Freedom of Information Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to address discrimination against women and vulnerable groups, including children.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to eradicate cultural practices that violate the rights of women and girls.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further strengthen the capacities of the CHRAJ by increasing its funding and resources.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the funding for implementation of the 2007 Domestic Violence Act.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019