N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the open-door policy towards internati onal human rights monitoring mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enter into other commitments considered necessary for the promotion, protection and enforcement of human rights in the country
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote effective follow-up to the recommendations issued by the international monitoring mechanisms to the country in the field of human rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Encourage the legislature to adopt international instruments and other human rights initiatives
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Renew the mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights established in Guatemala, for th e period from September 2008 to September 2011, taking into account that its mandate ends in September of this year
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Effectively preventing displacement. (2) Making rights-enjoyment indicators consistent. (3) Consolidating the income-generation, re-housing and return programmes and the time forcibly displaced persons have access to them. (4) Reinforcing the differentiated approach. (5) Applying reparation policy to the displaced population.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Universal coverage by 2010.(2) Establishing 90 telemedicine stations for remote locations.(3) Standardizing the Mandatory Health Plan for children of all social strata as a first step towards compliance with Constitutional Court order No. T-760 of 2008, which requires benefits for children, adults and citizens in general to be standardized.(4) Reducing maternal and infant mortality in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals.(5) Putting the national public health plan and the sexual and reproductive health plan into effect.(6) Improving nutrition levels among girls.(7) Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other serious illnesses.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Speeding up the process of establishing the truth. (2) Speeding up the identification of human remains so that they can be handed over to family members. (3) Inquiring into and investigating crimes committed by demobilized individuals against women and children (sexual violence and recruitment of children especially). (4) Promoting the National Reparation Programme. (5) Expanding the Victim and Witness Protection Programme. (6) Giving more publicity to victims' rights and taking steps which will include promoting the activities that the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission has been carrying out. (7) Getting the regional property restitution committees into operation. (8) Completing the historical commemorative document which the Act has assigned the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission to produce.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Strengthen semi-official investigation in the event of sexual and domestic violence. (2) Guarantee female victims of such violence full access to justice. (3) Guarantee a safe setting and favourable environment for the exercise by women of their Rights. (4) Safeguard the rights of women affected by violence by armed outlaw bands. (5) Apply the gender perspective to victim care policies and make public servants aware of that perspective.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The subject of special protection for same-sex couples has appeared on the public agenda in Colombia, and has led to important developments in jurisprudence. The Constitutional Court has on various occasions upheld the right of same-sex couples to equality. It has recognized that a de facto marital union (and the ensuing property rights), access to the mandatory health scheme and access to a survivor's pension must be safeguarded for same-sex couples on the same terms as for heterosexual couples. Colombia now faces the challenge of continuing to advance in this area.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) To offer better care to victims. (2) To train and graduate 1,000 community outreach workers to deal with mines every year. (3) To train 10 new 40-member humanitarian demining teams. (4) To set up an emergency response team. (5) To adapt policy to new challenges.(6) To destroy the remaining 26 minefields by 1 March 2011.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Improving coverage in rural and remote areas.(2) Expanding protection programmes to cover third parties involved in criminal proceedings. (3) Setting up the data system and designing a means of making the State information systems on human rights violations interoperable. (4) Increasing technical investigative capacity. (5) Boosting confidence in the judiciary.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commits itself [to honour] the conclusions reached, and will establish mechanisms to monitor the recommendations agreed on.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The aim with these programmes is to reduce the poverty index to 28 per cent and the extreme poverty index to 8.8 per cent by 2015, as called for by the first of the eight Millennium Development Goals.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reaffirmed its commitment to implement its human rights obligations and to continue to work closely with the Council.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reaffirmed the commitment of the Bahamas to continue to work with the human rights treaty bodies and the Council to ensure that there was constructive dialogue and to enhance the capacity of the Bahamas to carry out its reporting obligations under international human rights instruments.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In concluding, the representative of Barbados reiterated his country's commitment to a strong human rights platform and a rights-based approach to development.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is however committed to protecting all members of society from harassment, discrimination and violence regardless of sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The State does, however, recognize that there are still challenges to meet. It has undertaken to expand national prison capacity by 24,331 places by building ten new prison complexes. It is also designing and introducing new means of restricting liberty such as electronic tagging as an alternative to a [prison] sentence, and the urban farming programme, which is intended to train inmates to provide enough food for themselves and their families when they are freed.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) To improve guarantees of the exercise of their rights. (2) To remain in communication with them. (3) To act on its commitments in the case of the tripartite agreement with ILO (4) To encourage investigations of crimes against these groups. (5) To foster a culture in which it is easier for human rights defenders, reporters and trade unionists to operate.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- International instruments
- Labour rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Attained universal basic education. (2) Reduced illiteracy among 15- to 24-year-olds to 1 per cent. (3) Reached gross coverage levels of 100 per cent for basic education (preschool, primary and lower secondary) and 93 per cent for higher secondary (middle school) education. (4) Established an average of 10.6 years' schooling among the 15- to 24-year-old age group. (5) Reduced the repeat rate in basic and middle education to 2.3 per cent.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Boosting information systems and consolidated, interconnected data bases on such crimes: here Colombia considers that international technical assistance is important. (2) Inclining towards proper investigations and trials of all perpetrators. (3) Consolidating a policy of offering comprehensive care to victims and their families. (4) Giving the Office of the Public Procurator a greater role in disciplinary investigations of police and army personnel. (5) Buttressing the Commission on the Search for Missing Persons and increasing its capacity to follow up on forced disappearances and formulate policy proposals. (6) Initiating the ratification by Congress of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Justice
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Completing the policy-formulation process in conjunction with the indigenous authorities (2) Entrenching prior consultation procedures in accordance with the most recent constitutional jurisprudence. (3) Improving the communication channels established between the Government and the ethnic authorities,16 and relations at all levels. (4) Strengthening the indigenous and Afro-Colombian authorities. (5) Ensuring that the indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities really do have a right to land. (6) Combating the poverty that affects the indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities. (7) Defining mechanisms for coordination between the ordinary and indigenous court systems.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Poverty
- Right to land
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Colombia will continue to make efforts to protect the general public from these bands. It appeals for international support in combating the drug trafficking which supports their existence and ensuring that the logistics, money and individuals involved in the violence have nowhere to go. Particular attention will be paid to the pursuit of strategies to prevent recruitment and the effects of doing so on women and girls.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) To give full effect to the new Code in all areas. (2) To provide backing for the Social Protection System to safeguard boys' rights. (3) To bolster policies on comprehensive social and family protection so as to prevent Recruitment. (4) To bring child labour indices down to 5.1 per cent by 2015.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cuba reiterated its commitment to cooperate with United Nations human rights machinery, especially the Council and its universal periodic review, and to continue working towards the promotion and protection of human rights through international cooperation and respectful dialogue.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In order to strengthen the rule of law with security and justice institutions capable of effectively protecting human rights, and to overcome social inequalities, Mexico commits to adopt the necessary measures to address the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review in the framework of the National Programme on Human Rights 2008-2012. Mexico will also work in the framework of the Agreement with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico in order to foster the implementation of the recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Mexico will follow up on the recommendations with the full participation of civil society and autonomous human rights institutions, through the Commission for Government Policy on Human Rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Public policies will be promoted to ensure equity and better all-round participation by members of particularly vulnerable groups, including older persons, disabled persons, minors, women and members of ethnic minorities such as Afro-descendants and indigenous people. This includes better political representation, access to posts in institutions and the prohibition of any form of discrimination in the workplace or elsewhere
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Costa Rica will continue to adopt new international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, such as the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It will also follow up on the appropriate implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments