141.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to combat acts of violence and discrimination, such as stigmatization, against persons pertaining to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, and encourage Azerbaijan to deepen the measures to ensure the investigation and sanctioning of those acts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are protected against all forms of discrimination and violence in both law and practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive legal framework against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Thoroughly review its applicable legislation, in line with its international obligations and commitments, in order to eliminate and combat discrimination based on any ground, including sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the existing anti-discrimination legal framework explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Incorporate the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in the current legal framework
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to eradicate torture, ill-treatment and arbitrary arrests in line with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. In addition, strengthen public policies and education to combat discrimination and violations of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Discrimination
- International instruments
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect persons from arbitrary detentions and ill-treatment that they face for any personal consideration, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, ensuring their full social integration on the same footing
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to fight violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective steps to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in human rights legislation, recognizing the many dangers and challenges faced by the community, including the hijra
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish effective protection against discrimination, harassment and violence against sexual minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Minority rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge the existence of sexual and gender minorities in the country, and furthermore abolish section 377 of the Criminal Code and thus decriminalize consensual sexual acts between same-sex couples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal section 377 of the Criminal Code and include sexual orientation and gender identity as a protected category in the new anti- discrimination law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons through a broad legal framework, that includes the revision of laws that may be discriminatory, such as section 377 of the Penal Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to repeal in its legislation the criminalization of consensual sexual acts between people of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize in the Criminal Code relations between same-sex adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that threats and violence against human rights defenders, and in particular women defenders and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex defenders, because of their work or perceived or actual gender identity, are effectively prosecuted and do not go unpunished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End impunity by conducting thorough investigations and criminal prosecutions of human rights violations and abuses against human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Impunity
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to fight all forms of violence and discrimination, in particular against women, children, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps and effectively implement the existing measures aimed at protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons from discrimination and violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue and step up efforts to combat stereotypes regarding, and prejudice against, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish mechanisms to obtain disaggregated data on ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, making it possible to design effective public policies that are non-discriminatory and meet the needs of marginalized population groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Discrimination
- Minority rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue actions to prevent manifestations of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain awareness-raising campaigns on the right to freedom of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase effort to eradicate incitement to hatred, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, condemning discourses that motivate intolerance and crimes based on prejudice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue supporting projects to reduce discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and working for the protection and recognition of sexual diversity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts aimed at combating discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, including by ensuring resources for the autonomy of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency and by strengthening anti-discrimination laws
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further enhance the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons from discrimination and violence domestically by introducing a third gender category for people who do not identify as either male or female or who are born with an ambiguous sexual anatomy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures for the protection of the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, and update the care guide in the health sector, ensuring the inclusion of the rights of trans people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider introducing in legislation a third gender option for intersex and non-binary trans people based on self-determination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020