N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend its human rights education efforts to human rights training for media professionals and journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the overall situation of media freedom
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bring its law on mass media in line with international standards on press freedom and ensure that civil society and human rights defenders can peacefully and without fear of arbitrary arrest exercise their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association, in conformity with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the law on mass media to ensure it does not unduly restrict freedom of expression, in line with recommendations made by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bring the legislative framework in line with the recommendations made by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in order to ensure that it does not restrict freedom of expression and pluralism of media
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Better guarantee freedom of the press and freedom of expression, as well as the right to plural information
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the law on public association and mass gathering as well as media legislation to comply with international standards, including by decriminalizing defamation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove all obstacles to freedoms of expression, association, peaceful assembly and the press, ensuring that journalists and civil society can carry out their activities freely and safely, put an end to the harassment of journalists and remove the accreditation requirement for journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promptly and effectively investigate all allegations of torture and ill- treatment of prisoners and acts of intimidation, reprisals and threats against human rights defenders and journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully guarantee freedom of expression and refrain from arbitrary arrest of journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote and uphold the freedom of the media and the right to freedom of expression and ensure that legislation and practice are brought in line with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as conducting impartial investigations into all cases of attacks, harassment and intimidation and bringing perpetrators to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures aimed at preventing threats and intimidation against journalists and human rights defenders, as well as against opponents of the Government
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cease the intimidation, harassment and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders, NGO groups, and journalists and provide guarantees for the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, as well as ending its restrictions and surveillance of the Internet, namely by amending its legislation in order to remove extrajudicial procedures for blocking websites, in line with recommendations made by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, whose visit authorized by the Belarusian authorities in 2013 was a step in the right direction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the safety of human rights defenders and journalists, as well as their human rights, particularly freedom of expression and the press, and undertake swift and transparent investigation in response to the reports of intimidation, reprisal, threats and violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abandon the practice of arbitrary detention of journalists and decriminalize defamation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure freedom of expression and media freedom by guaranteeing that journalists and media workers are able to practise their professions in a free and safe environment and that all attacks on journalists and media workers are investigated and by criminalizing defamation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work to decriminalize defamation and prevent legal retaliation against journalists for exercising their right to freedom of expression, and increase transparency of media ownership
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee a safe and independent working environment for journalists and promote transparency and diversity in the media ownership
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Counter harassment, threats and wiretapping of investigating journalists, bloggers and NGO representatives
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively fight impunity against the perpetrators of the crimes against judges, journalists and human rights defenders and conduct effective investigations of human rights violations in these cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Impunity
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures for the effective investigation, prosecution and punishment of hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and women, including femicides, as well as crimes against human rights defenders, journalists, justice workers and campesino community members in Bajo Agua
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to create a safe environment for human rights defenders and journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure freedom of expression and take steps to end threats and attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish effective mechanisms to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders, judges, prosecutors and journalists, and ensure that acts of violence which in many cases result in deaths, intimidation and attacks against them, do not remain unpunished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
That the implementation of the new law on the protection of human rights defenders, journalists, social communicators and justice officials is allocated sufficient resources and without it being necessary to resort to civil society contributions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the new law (on the protection of human rights defenders, journalist, social communicators and justice officials) through an open consultation and participation process with civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Approve and implement a law on the protection of human rights defenders, journalists, social communicators and justice officials, and provide adequate human and financial resources to establish an effective State mechanism to protect those at risk
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the effectiveness of prevention, investigation and prosecution of all forms of attacks against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and judges in order to lower their incidence and to tackle impunity for these crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Impunity
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that a robust law protecting human rights defenders, journalists and justice officials is adopted and effectively implemented and that its impact is regularly assessed
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt laws protecting freedom of expression and freedom of the media
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019