N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify ICESCR and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP 1)
- 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
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR-OP 1 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
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Draft, enact, and implement legislation that provides greater protection for political rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its collaboration with the human rights mechanisms and become a party to the optional protocols of ICESCR and ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Immediately ratify ICCPR and its Optional Protocols, and incorporate the provisions into national legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its cooperation with treaty bodies and submit its initial report on the implementation of ICCPR as well as the report on the application of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OP-CRC-SC)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider taking progressive actions to ratify the core human rights treaties, starting with ICESCR and ICCPR, which it signed in 1995
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accede to ICCPR, ICERD and CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Respond, as soon as possible, to the outstanding communications from the treaty bodies, including those from the Human Rights Committee
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign, ratify and incorporate into national legislation key human rights treaties, such as ICCPR-OP 1, OP-CAT and CED
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICESCR, ICERD, ICCPR and CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to safeguard the full enjoyment of civil and political rights of its people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR and ICESCR, which it signed in 1995
- 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
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider, with the assistance of the relevant United Nations bodies, if needed, ratifying the core international human rights instruments to which Sao Tome and Principe is not a party, starting with ICCPR and ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR, ICESCR and the Optional Protocols to CRC as a matter of priority
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the treaties already signed, such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), ICESCR, ICCPR, and CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accelerate the ratification process of a number of relevant international legal instruments on human rights, namely ICESCR and ICCPR-OP 1
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) and ICCPR-OP 1
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to ICESCR, ICCPR-OP 1, OP-CAT and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from the Enforced Disappearance (CED)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider signing and ratifying ICESCR and ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Consider the possibility of signing or ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Consider accession to ICCPR and ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties, such as ICCPR and CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify CAT and ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Allow full participation by all ethnic and democratic groups, including the National League for Democracy and Aung San Suu Kyi, in the political life of the country, allowing the start of a genuine process of national reconciliation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the following international instruments: ICCPR, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its protocols, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and its protocol, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to adopt a positive perspective towards accession to ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to consider entering into ICESCR and ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR as well as CAT, CEDAW, including the two Optional Protocols to CRC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights