N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening the necessary policies to promote gender equality, with a focus on education, on adopting awareness campaigns for the population against gender violence, and on putting in place specific legislation that criminalizes violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Right to education
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Use temporary special measures in accordance with article 4 paragraph 1 of the CEDAW to achieve substantive equality of women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue repealing discriminatory laws and to allocate adequate budget for the implementation of its National Gender Programme to ensure non-discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Further consolidate on important fields of rules of law, gender equality, and social welfare to better overall conditions for vulnerable groups such as women, children and youth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Revise the Personal and Family Code to fully align it with international human rights standards, including with women's rights as set out in CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Look into amending the Personal and Family Code in accordance with international standards on women's human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take steps to review the Personal and Family Code by taking measures to eliminate all forms of gender discrimination and promote and protect women's and children's rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Urgently adopt legislation to ban FGM
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take legislative measures to prohibit all forms of FGM and ensure that perpetrators of this harmful practice are brought to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt criminal laws explicitly prohibiting FGM and excisions and provide appropriate penalties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Promote gender equality and adopt legislation to protect vulnerable groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify measures against acts of sexual violence against women and girls, and careful and effective treatment of alleged occurrence of extrajudicial executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Speed up the implementation of the national gender policy and to establish the national gender council by providing appropriate resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Speed up the ratification of the Conventions and Protocols recommended during its 2008 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and already under way, including Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its Optional Protocol and Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP-CEDAW)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue making efforts for the formulation of a national policy on gender
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Further improve its efforts in regard to the measures on combating gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen and take the measures required to prevent and punish sexual violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take steps to enhance the treatment of children born in prison, as well as pregnant women prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Pass legislation to address sexual and gender based violence and ensure its full application, among others by providing the required budgetary allocations for legal and psychological assistance to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Further fight all forms of violence against children and women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Establish the necessary mechanisms to put an end to violence against women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts aimed at combating gender-based violence, including adopting a specific bill on gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Redouble its efforts to fight against violence against women and adopt a law on sexual and sexist violence and ensure its implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen the abilities of the law enforcement agents to address the impunity of the perpetrators of sexual and sexist violence and to ensure the protection of the victims of trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Speed finalizing drafting the special law to prevent and punish crimes of gender based violence in order to put an end and fight violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Increase women representation in Government to the 30 per cent guaranteed by the Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts in order to reduce stereotypical approaches to the roles and responsibilities of women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Pay special attention to the needs of rural women and women heads of households, ensuring that they participate in decision-making processes and have full access to justice, education, health services and credit facilities, and eliminate all forms of discrimination against women with respect to ownership and inheritance of land
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Intensify its efforts aimed at modifying or eliminating the negative cultural practices and stereotypes which are the source of certain 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
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Include a gender perspective into its policies and programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, taking into account what has been pointed out by CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights