N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider harmonizing its civil and criminal codes with international human rights norms, particularly regarding marriage, family relations, patrimony and succession.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the request of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education favourably and allow the Special Rapporteur's visit.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider decriminalizing homosexual activities between consenting adults.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider how best the specific needs of individuals belonging to minorities could be addressed in order to ensure their equal enjoyment of all human rights, as provided for in the Constitution.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the law which prohibits the wearing of clothing denoting religious affiliation in schools.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review its position on the recognition of the rights of minorities and that it begin collecting data on the socio-economic status of the population, disaggregated by ethnic identity, confession and gender, in order to identify social problems affecting ethnic and religious minorities.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the possibility of withdrawing its reservations to article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider its commitment in line with paragraph 101 of the Durban Declaration when addressing questions with respect to legislation and studies on colonialism and the slave trade, in particular with respect to overseas territories.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Actively consider reviewing its position on minorities by recognizing and protecting them as minority groups.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Actively consider undertaking more aggressive strategies to increase the number of people with immigrant heritage in the public service, particularly the police, civil service and the judiciary, in order to better reflect the broad diversity within France.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the request of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education favourably and allow the Special Rapporteur's visit.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Re-examine the use of prolonged police detention.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review urgently the use of death penalty with a view to a moratorium and abolition.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the practicability of enacting legislation prohibiting FGM.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review interrogation monitoring procedures.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the death penalty with the intention of introducing a moratorium and abolishing it.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Given that Russian is the mother tongue of a significant proportion of Ukraine's population, to consider assigning the Russian language the status of second national language.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider a complete abolition of the death penalty.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider repealing the discriminatory practice in the inheritance laws.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider applying the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relations to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as a guide to assist in policy development.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider taking steps to change the Defamation Act in the Criminal Code in order to broaden the space for exercising the freedom of expression.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consideration be given to revising the Criminal Code in order to repeal the provision that criminalizes the sexual activity between consenting adults.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review, inter alia, the land rights and other rights of the Ainu population and harmonize them with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Right to land
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the Criminal Code to ensure its conformity with article 15 of the Convention against Torture.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider establishing legislation defining and prohibiting discrimination in all forms.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other