N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to resist attempts to enforce any values or standards beyond the universally agreed ones.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its policy of implementation of international and regional commitments regarding the rights of children.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts, in light of of the rights to non-discrimination and equality between men and women, to increase citizens' awareness of the necessity of female education.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to promote all universally agreed human rights and fundamental freedoms, and continue to resist attempts to enforce any values or standards beyond the universally agreed ones.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Call for the support of the international community to assist it in addressing the challenge of armed conflict with its rebel armed groups, which has brought about human right abuses, including sexual violence, recruitment of child soldiers, problems of refugees and internally displaced persons, poverty illiteracy and ignorance among others.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Call for the support of the international community to assist it in drawing up an electoral programme that will be acceptable to all the parties and bring about the realization of peace, democracy and good governance.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Justice
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Call for the support of the international community to provide the urgently needed technical and financial assistance in support of its efforts and for the implementation of the recommendations that may come out of this review.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue exercising its sovereign right of implementing its penal code in conformity with the universally agreed human rights standards, including the application of the death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify CAT-OP and establish a national preventive mechanism.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Right of the Child on the involvement of children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AC).
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Reinforce national legislation prohibiting trafficking in persons, in particular children.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Streamline and fine-tune policies to improve indigenous people's rights.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Pay special attention to the condition of persons in prisons and continue its capacity-building policy in the field of health care services.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts undertaken for the protection and realization of the rights of the child, particularly regarding access to education.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to assist indigenous communities, including the Pygmies, who share the same culture as those living in the Central African Republic.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to improve the human rights situation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Specifically determine its needs in order to be able to seek international assistance in its endeavors.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts aimed at protecting and promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Remain committed to promoting human rights and engage in a continuous and constructive dialogue with the leading human rights bodies and the international community.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts in the area of the promotion of gender equality and of the health of the mother and the girl child.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Request the support of United Nations programmes and agencies to establish programmes and strategies for literacy and employment training in for women in order to improve their conditions and their participation in the development of the country.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign 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
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee following its consideration of the country's periodic report.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to promote all universally agreed human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue exercising its sovereign right of implementing its penal code in conformity with universally agreed human rights standards, including the application of the death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Seek technical and financial support from the international community to achieve the MDGs and overcome its economic difficulties exacerbated by the current financial crisis.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its extensive reforms with a view to addressing institutional shortcomings and weaknesses, and develop an integrated agenda of human rights and public security as well as the development agenda towards poverty and illiteracy eradication.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Public security
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to put a halt to banditry and to help alleviate the suffering of its people by reforming its security services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Public security
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to implement its poverty reduction strategy paper as a framework for dialogue and reference for all questions regarding national development policies.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
As recommended by CRC, solicit and receive technical and financial assistance from the international community, particularly from United Nations bodies and programmes, to give tangible form to various sections of the poverty reduction strategy paper, especially restoration of security, consolidation of peace and prevention of conflict, promotion of good governance, reconstruction of the economy and diversification and development of human capital
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Poverty
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty bodies