N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the National Institute for Older Persons as a policymaking institution on ageing and old age
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote regulations to guarantee the rights of rural women, with an emphasis on care, access to comprehensive health care, quality education, justice, productive resources and employment opportunities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote affirmative action for the transgender, transvestite and transsexual population
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Operationalize the Technological University
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to meeting the needs of all members of RMG [religious minority groups] and ensuring that their rights are exercised in full.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eritrea is committed to halting the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to promoting gender equality, as enshrined in the Constitution, and is making efforts to ensure women's empowerment.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government will implement realistic measures to further promote rules of law, to consolidate the pluralistic democratic system and process and to respect freedom of expression and human dignity that will in turn strengthen political and security environment, leading towards long-term sustainable development.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Royal Government is committed to effectively implementing the policies of immigration along with the policy against all kinds of discrimination and at the same time safeguarding the country's sovereignty, national interests, reputations, dignity and harmony in the society.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
New Zealand is committed to increasing Maori participation in the police force.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
New Zealand is committed to improving in three priority areas: greater economic independence for women, more women in leadership positions, and improving women's safety from violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
New Zealand is fully committed to combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and remains supportive and actively engaged in global efforts to that end.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Slovakia will make every effort to present a voluntary interim report on the progress made in implementing the UPR recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reduce child mortality and malnutrition to achieve the 2015 national Millennium Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to food
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to upholding the rule of law and promoting access to justice for all New Zealanders.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Draw up policies to identify, evaluate and provide a systemic response to unpaid work in order to redistribute domestic and care work between the State, the market and the family
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Labour rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop institutional mechanisms for the social integration of released persons by strengthening the National Foundation for the Welfare of Prisoners and ex-Prisoners
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Vanuatu's National Advisory Board on Climate Change is committed to steering and guiding development partners interested in engaging in human rights and climate/disaster issues in Vanuatu, including by providing expedited program approvals and nominating counterparts, intervention sites and priority areas.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase teaching time in schools and early learning centres and continue to establish secondary schools offering a full schoolday
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the coming years, the Government will focus on policies and strategies to enhance the awareness of gender issue, change the mind-set about gender issue, as well as the prejudice about gender, strengthen international cooperation in the gender issue, especially which is related to disadvantaged groups and areas of strategic importance such as education, healthcare and employment.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to health
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Royal Government will introduce a systematic procedure on anti-corruption by strengthening the law enforcement through education, accountability and institutional capacity building with the support and participation from the public and the private sectors.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Corruption
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Royal Government will actively and deeply reform land management by focusing on the management, organization, utilization and distribution of land in order to achieve national goals for poverty reduction, food security and the protection of environment and natural resources, keeping in line with the process of socio-economic development and in accordance with the free market principles.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Right to food
- Right to land
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cyprus is determined to intensify its efforts to safeguard human rights and is committed to continue working for the further advancement of raising awareness and education on human rights, despite the current economic constrains which have negatively affected the country's economy and social cohesion.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commitment of the State to promote the legal and administrative conditions for real and effective equality and to take necessary steps to prevent and combat discrimination, marginalization, vulnerability and exclusion
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eritrea is fully committed to the achievement of the MDGs
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government has committed itself to the principles of health for all through primary health care reflected in the national PHC policy adopted in 1999.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to health
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
This statement of support affirmed New Zealand's commitment to the common objectives of the Declaration and the Treaty of Waitangi, which continues to form the basis of the relationship between Maori and the Government.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
New Zealand is committed to identifying and addressing gaps in information to better understand the causes of inequality.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to addressing this overrepresentation [of Maori in the prison population] through the "Drivers of Crime" initiative. Priority areas for action include: increasing at-risk communities' uptake of maternity and early parenting support, addressing conduct and behaviour issues through education and health services, reducing harm from alcohol, and improving access to interventions for offenders to reduce reoffending and escalation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to structured, organised and regular engagement with civil society to discuss follow-up to 2nd cycle UPR recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- UPR process