157.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the parliamentary debates for the approval of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
51.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make efforts to guarantee universal access to health services, including sexual and reproductive health, including for regular and irregular migrant workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
51.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the gender equality law to guarantee protection against all forms of violence and discrimination, eliminating existing exceptions, in line with the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
88.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns on the death penalty and public debates on the subject with a human rights focus, including in parliament, with a view to enabling its formal abolition, and to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
88.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize the incorporation into its legislation of a comprehensive definition of discrimination against women and girls in line with article 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, that covers both direct and indirect discrimination and that recognizes intersectional forms of discrimination, in accordance with the comments received from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty Bodies
- Women's rights
157.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue making efforts to reduce cases of trafficking in persons, identifying the factors that encourage it and taking measures to counter them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
107.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen Samoa’s commitment to the principle of non- discrimination, including through the adoption of legislation aimed at prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
88.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to advance in the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country has not yet acceded, as well as to ensure the alignment of its national legal framework with the obligations derived from already ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty Bodies
130.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to guarantee the protection of human rights defenders, including those who carry out humanitarian work with refugees and migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Migrants
106.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns on the death penalty and public debates on the subject from a human rights perspective, including in its parliament, with a view to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
106.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical support from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to advance in the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet party, and ensure the incorporation into its national legal system of the obligations deriving from ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
52.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen public awareness campaigns on the death penalty, with a view to the prompt ratification of 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
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
130.3.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the prompt ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
88.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its commitment to the principles of equality and non- discrimination, both in law and in practice, including through the immediate decriminalization of same-sex sexual relations between consenting adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
130.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that those belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities are effectively protected against any form of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
157.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the prompt ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Labour rights
128.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression, including the protection of civil society and academia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
109.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Encourage the public and parliamentary debates necessary for the revision of the law on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy under a human rights approach, especially to allow this procedure in cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation or when pregnancy threatens the woman’s life or health
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
128.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review anti-paedophilia legislation in accordance with its international human rights obligations to ensure that it focuses on combating this serious problem, including by removing provisions contrary to the human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
128.265
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to ensure that asylum seekers and refugees do not suffer discrimination and xenophobia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
109.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical support from OHCHR to advance the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet a party, as well as to ensure the alignment of its national legal system with the obligations derived from ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
147.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Affirm its commitment to the principle of non-discrimination, promoting the necessary debates to review the Penal Code as soon as possible with the aim to put an end to the criminalization of consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
147.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical support from OHCHR to advance in the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet a party, as well as to ensure the alignment of its national legal system with the obligations derived from ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
147.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns on the death penalty and hold public debates on the subject from a human rights perspective, including in parliament, with a view to realizing its definitive abolition and the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
147.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen HIV-prevention programmes aimed at young people and make efforts to expand their coverage, ensuring that health services and information on the subject are accessible throughout the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
123.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical support from the Office of the High Commissioner to advance in the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet a party, as well as to ensure the alignment of its national legal system with the obligations arising from ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
123.15.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Give priority to the process of ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Labour rights
144.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen awareness-raising campaigns on the death penalty and public debate on the topic from a human rights perspective, including in its parliament, with a view to enabling as soon as possible its definitive abolition and the ratification of 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
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
81.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reaffirm its commitment to the principle of non-discrimination by encouraging the necessary debates for the prompt decriminalization of consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
144.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical support from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to advance in the ratification of the main international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet a party, as well as to ensure the alignment of its national legal system with the obligations derived from ratified human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty Bodies