N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further strengthen its efforts to review its legislative framework and make necessary adjustments to it in order to ensure that it is in conformity with Afghanistan's international human rights obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish measures for displaced persons to have particularly better access to the land and to improve their shelters and infrastructures nearby
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
- Right to land
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive legislation or policies with a view to facilitating durable solutions for internally displaced persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Advance in the coordination of the different government departments with competencies on the issue of water
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening the protection of vulnerable groups, such as the group of victims of war
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Energetically drive forward judicial reform, combat corruption and enhance the capacity of the judiciary
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make every effort possible to ensure the human rights of prisoners and detainees are fully observed in the criminal justice system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all possible actions to eliminate all forms of violence against women and amend all Laws that discriminate against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take initiatives to improve recruitment and retention of female police officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all of Afghanistan's religious communities are able to practice their religion freely and that their right to freedom of religion or belief is protected in any new legislation or legislation currently under review
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, by ensuring, in particular, participation of women on an equal footing and at every level of responsibility in the reconciliation process
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, including by supporting the participation of women in peace talks, and continuing to increase the proportion of women playing an active role in the security forces, in particular the police, while ensuring their safety and dignity in their place of work
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, in particular by supporting the participation of women in peace negotiations and ensuring the necessary framework to increase the participation of women in political and judicial life and within security institutions of the country, taking into account their security as well as their personal dignity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise the legislation on child marriage and the legal age of marriage so as to be consistent with international standards, with the aim of both harmonizing the legal framework by eliminating the co-existence of different prescriptions in Civil Law and in Shari'a regulations and preventing the practice of early and forced marriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact and implement legislation that protects children, and set the minimum age for marriage at 18 for both girls and boys
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that any physical and moral harm against journalists or human rights defenders is subjected to an investigation and that those responsible are duly prosecuted
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that no governmental entity endorses the restriction of freedom of expression in any way whatsoever
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Deploy possible additional efforts to prevent cases of torture and ill-treatment and to prosecute perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue advancing in the fight against torture and ill-treatment in the administration of justice, of the security forces of the State and in the penitentiary centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enact measures to ensure girls' right to education, namely the reinforcement of security, hiring of more female teachers and improvement of schooling facilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take all possible measures to improve access to quality education without gender discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the light of the current reform of the Criminal Code and the Code on Criminal Proceedings, do not include any discriminatory provisions against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women and women's rights advocates participate in every stage of negotiations concerning a political settlement to the conflict and that the rights of women and girls are respected in any eventual settlement
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee women's representation in all decision-making levels in line with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions as well as on the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all possible measures to ensure the protection of and respect for the rights of women and children at legal and practical level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that many individuals who are guilty of violence are effectively convicted and put an end to the impunity from which they benefit too often
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate all allegations of mistreatment or abuse of detainees by the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan National Police and the Afghan Local Police and ensure that those who commit such acts are held accountable
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Thoroughly investigate allegations of human rights violations by members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and hold perpetrators accountable
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to combat child labor and sexual exploitation of children as well as forced marriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to put an end to any recruitment or use of children in armed forces and groups within the police forces
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019