131.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Progressively develop existing capacity to effectively tackle modern slavery in fulfilment of its shared treaty obligations, building resilience across the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
131.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Work to ensure equal access to justice across the Kingdom, including by opening offices to provide easily accessible legal advice and referrals in Saba, Bonaire and Sint Eustatius
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Access to justice
131.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to implement relevant legislation and policies with a view to efficiently combating bullying in schools, as part of the efforts to tackle radicalization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
131.136
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive sexuality education is integrated into the national school curriculum, including on topics such as sexual diversity, sexual rights and gender equality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
131.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Integrate human rights education into the national school curriculum, provide sufficient resources for human rights education and training of teachers and ensure that they receive training in topics such as sexual diversity, sexual rights, resilience, gender equality and consent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
131.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify its efforts in relation to children’s rights, including, in particular, in the Caribbean countries forming part of the State, including to prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, to develop and implement public awareness programmes, to reduce the rate of children dropping out of school, to intensify efforts to eradicate child labour, to raise the minimum age of recruitment in the military to 18 years and to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure without reservations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
131.168
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Revise existing job schemes to ensure access to a wider spectrum of work for people with disabilities than provided for under current legislation, to comply fully with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Labour rights
131.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt concrete measures to ensure access to employment for persons with disabilities and to promote the principle of inclusive education throughout the national education system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Right to education
131.171
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Explore alternative ways to treat persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities and impartially investigate the excessive use of restrictive measures in mental health institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to health
131.193
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Introduce additional measures to reduce the practice of detaining individuals solely for immigration purposes and consider using alternatives when possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Migrants
131.194
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Take measures to address cases of detention whose length goes beyond the limit established by the European Union return directive
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the OP-ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Consider an early ratification of the third Optional Protocol to the CRC on a communication procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol of the CRPD, as well as the OP-CESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt a National Action Plan on Human Rights Education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Apply homogenous human rights standards in the different territories that form the kingdom of the Netherlands, especially in the Antilles, as recommended by CESCR in 2010
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Introduce measures to reduce detention of individuals solely for immigration purposes and consider other alternatives than detention to use when possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
131.5.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
131.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
131.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify as soon as possible the third 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
131.15.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
131.16.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Consider signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
131.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Withdraw the reservations to articles 26 (c), 37 and 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and ratify 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
131.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Extend the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
131.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Extend the accession by Curaçao and Sint Maarten to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- International instruments
131.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen the measures for fighting discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
131.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Develop a national strategy that specifically addresses racism and racial discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
131.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Issue a national action plan for countering discrimination as well as hate crimes, including indicators for success
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
131.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Establish an effective arrangement for dialogue with representatives of minority groups in order to be properly informed about their problems and needs, and develop policies and programmes to improve their situation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
131.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Recommendation
Consider establishing a, or strengthening the existing, national mechanism responsible for coordination, implementation, reporting and follow-up, in line with the good practices identified by OHCHR in its study/guide concerning national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process