N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Implement training programs for the security forces so that crimes motivated by race nationality, religion ethnicity, sexual orientation or identity, are adequately investigated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Put in place a broad strategy to eliminate patriarchal attitudes and stereotypes that discriminate against women in conformity with Articles 2 (f) and 5 (a) of CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt necessary measures for free and compulsory registration of all children, including late registration, bringing forward new and more targeted campaigns to raise awareness among families, training social workers and health professionals and civil servants in charge of the registration and birth certificates and providing the necessary resources to establish registration offices in all the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Monitor the customary law to ensure that traditional practices be aligned with its obligations in the area of human rights, especially with the provisions of international instruments to which Ghana is a State party
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Commute all death penalties, progressively reduce the number of offences punishable with death penalty and adopt subsequent measures to ensure its full abolition, including by acceding to ICCPR-OP2
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Modify the discriminatory provisions of the Family Code in order to harmonize those provisions with the CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue applying the provisions of the Penal Code regarding FGM, bringing to justice and punishing perpetrators of those crimes, their accomplices and those who do not denounce them, intensify awareness raising campaigns and training with a view to explain that FGM is a form of discrimiantion and violence based on gender, and thus eradicate this practice and the cultural justifications in which it is based
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Give priority to the activities on promotion and protection of trade unions freedom with a view to continue strengthening free and independent trade unions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention of Privileges and Immunities of the ICC and adjust its national legislation with all the obligations emanating from the Rome Statute, including the provisions on the investigation and prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt all the practical measures to end corporal punishment in all places and act drastically against all forms of corporal punishments in school, promoting forms of nonviolent disciplinary measures as alternatives and launch public information campaigns to raise awareness about its harmful effects
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Incorporate in criminal law the principle of absolute prohibition of torture and ensure that the ban is strictly enforced in conformity with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and proceed with the corresponding legal reforms in compliance with said Convention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Speed up, with the cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner and donor countries, the legal process to establish a national human rights institution in conformity with the Paris Principles, with material and human resources that guarantee its independence and good functioning
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Recognize the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council to promote and strengthen legislation and public policies on human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify the implementation of measures that allow the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Raise awareness and disseminate in the civil society the norms contained in the CEDAW, in a language accessible and clear for the local people, through partnership collaboration with the civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights education and training
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Identify the causes and adopt measures to ensure the permanence of minors in general and of girls in particular, in the education system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Emphasize and step up the fight against female genital mutilation, working together with local communities and educating girls and women about the negative consequences of this practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Advance in the allocation to the judiciary of the necessary financial resources with a view to achieving its full independence, as well as guaranteeing due transparency and efficiency in the administration of justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Extend an open invitation to all the mechanisms and Special proceduress of the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Guarantee and ensure full freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly of journalists, activists, human rights defenders and participants in demonstrations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify OP-ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify ICCPR-OP 2, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty for all crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to effectively prevent the practice of female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accede to 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 humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- 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 the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking