N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to ensure that its legal system and policies are in full compliance with its international obligations in respect of freedom of expression and that journalists and human rights defenders are guaranteed the freedom to carry out their work independently and without fear of prosecution or intimidation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation to provide for freedom of information requests
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to combat the persecution of persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, in particular by removing Article 319.3 from the Penal Code so as to decriminalise consensual sexual conduct between persons of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to prevent the ritual murder of persons with albinism, children with disabilities, twins, and children accused of practising witchcraft, to investigate and prosecute those suspected of committing these crimes, and to increase efforts to raise awareness of the need to eradicate such practices
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Human rights education and training
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Lift the reservation on article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, review and repeal all sections of the Constitution and other remaining discriminatory provisions that allow discrimination based on gender, and include in the Constitution, and/or other appropriate legislation, prohibition of both direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of gender
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal 14.74 of the Penal Code and take all necessary legislative and other measures to eliminate discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Agree to a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step toward ultimate abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all violence against women and girls constitutes a criminal offence, that victims have access to immediate means of redress and protection, and that all perpetrators are prosecuted
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate with special procedures mandate holders by responding positively to requests for information and visits
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow civil society organizations to complement government programmes in preventing violence and harmful practices against women and girls and also amend the Charities and Societies Proclamation to ensure that restrictions on freedom of association are removed, including restrictions on potential sources of funding for civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment, in which human rights defenders, journalists and civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolutions 22/6, 27/5 and 27/31
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps to abolish the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that its agriculture policies do not undermine the food security or land rights of the most vulnerable and consider applying the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality of children under 5 years age (A/HRC/27/31)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to food
- Right to health
- Right to land
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize defamation and place it under the Civil Code in accordance with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enshrine the principle of equality and non-discrimination in the Constitution without qualifications by avoiding any discriminatory clauses as the draft is finalized
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to ensure that its legal system and policies are in full compliance with its international obligations in respect of freedom of expression and that the media and journalists are guaranteed the necessary freedoms to carry out their work independently and without fear of prosecution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 16 - May 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt and implement, by the end of 2014, a law prohibiting all forms of violence against children, including harmful practices and ensure that such legislation is in line with international human rights standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the action plan signed with the United Nations in June 2011 to end current and prevent future recruitment and use of children in the armed forces, and adopt the draft child protection code criminalizing this under domestic law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 26 - November 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government facilitate a visit by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate the development, in law and practice, of a safe and enabling environment in which both civil society and human rights defenders can operate free from fear, hindrance and insecurity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps to prevent the arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defenders and to create and maintain, in law and practice, a safe and enabling environment, in which human rights defenders can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 22/6
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR and implement its provisions in national legislation through 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
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal section 250 of the Criminal Code which criminalizes sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Retract the draft legislation on civil society organizations, which threatens their independence by enabling the Government to dissolve them without a court order or refuse to license new organizations on grounds, including "national unity"
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reverse the policy barring pregnant girls from attending schools and sitting state examinations, and encourage girls to return to school after childbirth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Urgently review its criminal justice system, in particular to criminalise torture and prohibit the use in courts of evidence obtained in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, abolish corporal punishment in the penal system, abolish the crime of apostasy, implement the recently signed Action Plan to prevent recruitment of children to the national security forces, and address the impunity of police, armed and national security forces by amending the National Security Act 2010 to conform with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and through ratification of the Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve access to justice for victims of intimate partner violence, including by enacting legislation that would recognize and criminalize marital rape, spousal battery and other forms of intimate partner violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement plans to reduce physical and cost barriers to accessing HIV-related health services in rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all feasible measures to protect children from recruitment by State-allied and non-State armed groups, including contributing information, analysis and recommendations to the United Nations and other stakeholders to support and strengthen their efforts to ensure that international standards are upheld
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate work to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and to establish a Special Tribunal tasked with holding those responsible for war crimes to account, with both institutions conforming to international standards and drawing on national consultations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice