N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Within the next 24 months, Cyprus undertook to make its national human rights institution fully compatible with the Paris Principles, including its financial independence, as the relevant bill had to go through parliamentary procedures.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cyprus is committed to completing the process of ratification in the near future, including the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC).
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The instrument of ratification for the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, would be submitted within the next 18 months
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The instrument of ratification for the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict would be submitted within three months
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government undertook the commitment to submit all reports due to the human rights mechanisms within the next 24 months
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- May 8, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to CED
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Vigorously pursue prosecutions under its new anti-trafficking legislation and ensure that responsible government institutions are adequately resourced to provide timely and effective follow-up on specific cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Through relevant mechanisms, continue to guarantee through specific, concrete measures the constructive cooperation policies towards the office of the Commissioner for the Protection of Children's Rights, providing it with the necessary resources to guarantee the fulfilment of its functions for the benefit of the boys, girls and adolescents of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To undertake substantial measures to combat trafficking through national and international collaboration, including international and national NGOs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To evaluate, and monitor the effectiveness of the measures taken with regard to combating trafficking of human beings, the protection of victims, and bring to justice those involved in human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to follow up on the concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights related to trafficking and sexual exploitation of trafficking victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take every possible action to speed up exhumation processes to enable the Committee on Missing Persons to continue its excellent work
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take additional measures to reduce the gender wage gap and further improve the integration of women in employment through measures such as the creation of more childcare facilities and educational facilities for working mothers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures to raise awareness and provide information through specific programmes of human rights education and training and to incorporate human rights in school curricula
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate measures for the provision of legal aid to asylumseekers and migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to integrate refugees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its efforts to effectively combat domestic violence and provide adequate victims' support, inter alia by creating sufficient shelter capacity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen enforcement of its existing legal framework protecting the equality of women in employment, particular for those in unskilled and lowwage position
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate measures to ensure stricter control on the new work permit system and intensify its efforts to bring to justice all those involved in trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen cooperation with human rights treaty bodies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Secure the effective functioning of its national preventive mechanism in accordance with OP-CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reinforce the strategy to combat domestic violence, including by making available temporary shelters for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up ratification of core human rights treaties that it has signed, but not ratified yet
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the process of ratification of OP-CRC-AC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reinforce existing non-discrimination legislation and take all necessary measures to prevent discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify OP-CRC-AC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify OP-CAT, as well as OP-CRC-AC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Incorporate a gender perspective in all government policies that target women belonging to different groups of vulnerable people, in line with relevant recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase human and financial resources allocated to the new antidiscrimination body, within the Ombudsman's Office, in order to ensure effective functioning of this institution, as well as further strengthening the financial and human resources of the national machinery for women's rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit all discriminatory practices and criminalize defamation, slander and incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, whether they are public or not, towards a person or a group of persons because of their sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Nov 29, 2019