130.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Expedite their ratification of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
130.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures to further protect persons with albinism and eliminate all forms of discrimination they face
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
129.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Develop a national policy to address trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
139.223
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Increase the age of marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls and harmonize legislation to this effect
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
118.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen literary programmes for women and girls living in rural communities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
131.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts, including by seeking technical assistance wherever required, to meet its human rights targets
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
146.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider promulgating laws that oblige mining companies to contribute towards the sustainable socioeconomic development of the areas in which they operate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Right to development
148.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Call upon all parties in Libya to renew their commitment to the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, in cooperation with the United Nations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
103.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take all steps to repeal the Penal Law of 1978 and decriminalize free speech
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
136.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accelerate the adoption of the bill on trafficking in persons and child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
93.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Seek the technical and financial assistance needed to adequately address the climate change challenges and to reduce risk and implement early warning systems
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Technical assistance and cooperation
94.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign and accede to the core international human rights treaties to which Tonga is not yet party, namely, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Torture and other CID treatment
128.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
114.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Expedite efforts to adopt legislation to combat gender-based violence and establish a national programme to combat the sexual exploitation of women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
128.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
140.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
142.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts towards reforming its human rights institutions and developing additional measures to ensure the effective implementation of their mandate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
137.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Expedite the ratification of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
122.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take measures with a view to effectively applying Act No. 1/2004 on the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
163.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider repealing specific provisions of the Family Code that create room for discrimination on the basis of disability regarding rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Women's rights
119.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to reform the judiciary and security sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
144.218
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures aimed at eradicating child marriages and expedite the enactment of legislation abolishing the forced marriage of children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
139.1.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
139.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Thoroughly investigate and prosecute reported incidents of abductions and killings of persons with albinism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
125.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
146.173
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen legislation and establish clear guidelines and measures to prevent child exploitation and their commercial sexual exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
118.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Provide free legal aid to women without sufficient means in order to facilitate their access to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Women's rights
118.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Expedite the functionality of its national human rights institution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
118.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt laws to combat ritual crimes, punish appropriately the instigators and perpetrators of such offences, and put in place a comprehensive strategy to eliminate them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
118.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Seek technical assistance to address food security challenges in order to mitigate the negative effects of malnutrition and poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to food