146.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to ensure that the Persons with Disability Act (2006) is in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Aug 27, 2021
146.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to deliver free education to all, and to ensure that women, children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are at the forefront of its efforts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Aug 27, 2021
147.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening the application of the discrimination reporting system, which protects the rights of people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, and ensure that the education system guidelines prevent discrimination against students
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 25, 2021
147.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Deepen efforts to prevent and sanction harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation, the tradition known as trokosi, early forced marriage and accusations of witchcraft and polygamy, guaranteeing the protection and rehabilitation of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 25, 2021
146.200
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen strategies to guarantee the protection of the rights of migrants and refugees in order to ensure their access to justice, education and health, regardless of their status
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date modified
- Feb 17, 2021
146.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the judiciary system reform to reinforce its efficiency, notably to improve access to justice for all
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Justice
- Date modified
- Feb 17, 2021
147.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the core human rights treaties, including the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Scale up and expand youth-friendly and gender-sensitive programmes on comprehensive sexuality education and sexual reproductive health and rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts aimed at ending and discouraging vigilantism in politics in order to protect participation and freedom of expression in public life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to combat discrimination and violence by adopting measures to raise awareness among the population and public officials of the negative effects of public stigmatization on any grounds, including against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize same-sex relationships between consenting adults and actively address discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider amending legislation that penalizes consensual same-sex relations between adults in order to guarantee the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community, among others
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.33.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Deepen efforts to prevent and sanction harmful traditional practices, such as [
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex are not punishable by law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.33.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Deepen efforts to prevent and sanction harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation, the tradition known as trokosi, early forced marriage and accusations of witchcraft and [...], guaranteeing the protection and rehabilitation of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce a crime of torture in the national penal legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure full protection of the human rights of all people in Ghana, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, women, and persons with disabilities, by eliminating discriminatory legislation, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and effectively implementing existing laws and policies on gender and disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure free birth registration and birth certificate issuance, at least for children up to 5 years of age
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit non-consensual treatments, such as forced medication and confinement
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize and fund information campaigns for non-discrimination and universal access for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex groups in Ghana
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise its Criminal Code so as to eliminate the mandatory death sentence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite action on the review of the Minerals and Mining Act to ensure sound management of the extractive sector to include control of illegal mining activities and integrate community rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the national framework for the reduction of all forms of discrimination, especially against persons with albinism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify or adopt implementing legislation with regard to the 1926 Slavery Convention, the 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures to prevent hate crimes, hate speech and discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate the type of crime of “unnatural carnal knowledge“ and adopt measures to eradicate discrimination motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to decriminalize homosexuality and take special measures of non-discrimination with regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat impunity of perpetrators of torture and ill-treatment, particularly in cases of excessive use of force by the police
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Impunity
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Criminal Procedure Code, 1960 (Act 30) to introduce an alternative sentencing policy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020