N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request cooperation and technical assistance for the development and implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek technical assistance of the OHCHR, according to its national priority, in order to address the issue of delay in reporting on the Conventions to which it is party
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue in its dialogue within the Constitutional Reform process with a view to adequately defining "discrimination" and guaranteeing the equal rights of all women within Bahamian society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with its active efforts to improve its legislation to further promote gender equality and the rights of women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with its efforts in the field of economic, social and cultural rights, in order to increase the quality of life of its people, particularly the most excluded sectors of the population, for which it is particularly necessary to receive the support and technical assistance from the international community required by the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement its efforts to promote universal education and develop a knowledge-based society for long-term sustainable development
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enhance its domestic framework to eliminate violence against women and to promote gender equality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to request international assistance and advice on successful examples on ways to change traditional social attitudes that accept corporal punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen its efforts to fight against trafficking in persons and to ensure protection of its victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to promote sustainable economic and social development and further strengthen the protection of rights of women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue addressing, as a priority, the effects of HIV/AIDS on women and children as a priority, in particular, the mother-to-child transmission
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, in line with its National Strategic Plan for HIV Prevention and Control 2008-2013
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its cooperation with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms and extend an open invitation to the Special Procedures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement the socio-economic development strategies and plans, in particular those aimed at fostering women's empowerment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Right to development
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue devoting significant resources in education, with particular consideration to human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to ratify CPED
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its commitment to the cause of promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to advance the implementation of policies and measures that reflect this commitment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
That the engagement with NGOs and civil society should be continued during the implementation of the second cycle accepted recommendations where appropriate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue cooperating with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to engage with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other UN agencies to enhance the promotion and protection of human rights within the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts relating to the fight against discrimination, analyzing the possibility that the national legal framework includes all forms of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat gender stereotyping and gender inequality across the board and work towards empowerment of women in all spheres of society, including addressing sexual harassment in the work place
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts made aimed at combating discrimination and religious intolerance, especially against the rastafari, and to strengthen measures to eliminate any discriminatory treatment based on sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue moving forward with the adoption of measures leading to the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the context of the provisions of Barbados' Constitution in the area of the fight against discrimination, continue promoting legislative and public policy action to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities, especially in the areas of employment, education and the provision of State services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to eradicate poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the ratification of the main international instruments relating to human rights, primarily, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the very positive track with the progress in the promotion and protection of human rights and ratify CAT as well as the CRPD
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the efforts to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the policies to tackle gender based violence and the programme of "Swift Justice"
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Women's rights