157.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures in order to tackle stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
157.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Explicitly define and criminalize the sale of children and develop other mechanisms to address child trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
157.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to improve literacy equally amongst boys and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
158.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and both its Optional Protocols, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
158.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Optional Protocol, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
158.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
111.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts for the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, namely by recognizing the right of intersex persons to gender identity self-determination and gender expression, inter alia by prohibiting the performance of surgical or pharmacological interventions on children before the manifestation of their gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
111.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide training on human rights to health personnel, members of the judiciary, police forces and prison officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
111.201
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps in order to respect the rights of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including by combating institutionalization, stigma, violence and overmedicalization, and by developing community-based and people-centred mental health services which promote inclusion in the community and respect their free and informed consent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
140.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the third Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
140.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
140.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
140.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to protect persons with albinism in law and in practice against all kinds of discrimination and human rights violations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
140.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the progress made in the field of human rights education by providing regular training to law enforcement officials and relevant authorities in judicial institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
126.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the following instruments: (a) the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; (b) the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol; (c) the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and (d) the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
126.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Become a member of the International Labour Organization and comply with its obligations arising from international human rights law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
126.68
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek the technical assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including by granting access to the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and abolish the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to prevent extrajudicial executions and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Extrajudicial executions
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.78
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures in order to tackle stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.176
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measure to rehabilitate former child soldiers and reintegrate them into society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
104.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify, as previously recommended, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
104.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Follow the de facto moratorium on the death penalty by its abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
104.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Swiftly finalize the update of Dominica’s national policy and action plan for gender equality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
122.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps towards the total abolition of the death penalty and, as a matter of priority, sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
122.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
122.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures in order to address stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members, including through awareness-raising campaigns
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
122.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat stigma and discrimination against persons affected by HIV/AIDS and implement a countrywide sexual and reproductive health education policy in the school system that specifically focuses on HIV/AIDS
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Human rights education and training
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
123.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Apply effectively the 1998 United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and extend a standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020