159.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite the appointment of a commissioner on women’s rights and provide the National Women’s Commission with a complaint mechanism and the authority to issue binding rulings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Women's rights
159.25.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen further the National Human Rights Commission and continue to take measures for protecting women rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite the appointment of a commissioner on women’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that includes a definition of discrimination against women encompassing direct and indirect discrimination and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat discrimination based on caste and gender
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Women's rights
159.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue protecting, in law and practice, the rights of the vulnerable groups of the population, particularly women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and ethnic minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women, children, persons with disabilities and indigenous and local communities are meaningfully engaged in the development and implementation of climate change and disaster risk reduction frameworks
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.52
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Apply an inclusive approach in shaping disaster prevention and mitigation policies and strategies by incorporating the views of women and vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities and older people, indiscriminately
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Women's rights
159.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bring the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act into compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling and international standards and, in particular, include survivors of sexual violence and their families in the transitional justice process and all related government schemes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the transitional justice process takes a gender-sensitive approach and upholds international standards, with the transparent and timely conclusion of cases by commissions of inquiry, ensuring the rights of all victims to truth, justice and reparation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Women's rights
159.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to foster a safe, respectful and enabling environment for civil society and human rights defenders, especially women human rights defenders, free from persecution, intimidation and harassment, and to relax the requirements for registering NGOs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Women's rights
159.90
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to combat slavery and trafficking in human beings, including by considering the possibility of adopting strategies or action plans in these spheres, as well as additional measures to identify victims of slavery and trafficking, especially among women and children, and to ensure their comprehensive protection and rehabilitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
159.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize the Foreign Employment Act and the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act to ensure consistency with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
159.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that its efforts to address poverty are inclusive, gender- responsive and human rights-based
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Women's rights
159.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion and concretely protect the rights and sexual and reproductive health of women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up further efforts to ensure gender parity in both primary and secondary education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
159.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to ensure full inclusion and improve learning results for all children belonging to the Dalit community, underrepresented castes and indigenous peoples, including children with disabilities, at all levels of education, and to ensure the representation of these groups, especially women, in teaching positions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further enhance the empowerment of women through education, awareness-raising, training for skills development and employment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Women's rights
159.157
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate the current statute of limitations on reporting cases of rape and sexual violence, even in the context of conflicts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove the one-year statute of limitations for rape and sexual violence to ensure that cases are brought to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
159.160
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to promote women’s empowerment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the effective implementation of the criminalization of chhaupadi and wedding dowries, including by raising awareness among all stakeholders, imposing sanctions and prosecuting perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Women's rights
159.162
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the speedy conclusion of investigations into allegations of gender-based violence that remain pending since 1996–2006
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
159.163
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure, in law and in practice, the effective combat of sexual violence and the end of discriminatory measures against women and girls, including in policies related to access to justice, attribution of nationality and prevention of trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
159.164
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to eliminate all forms of gender-based violence within the framework of the relevant presidential programme
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.165
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete actions to eliminate all forms of inequality and structural violence against women, in particular in the new constitutional legislation of Nepal
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.166
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure full equality between men and women with respect to conferring citizenship on their children and spouse, including by amending provisions in the Constitution and Citizenship Act amendment bill 2020
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
159.167
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote gender equality and better protect women’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.168
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite the adoption of a national action plan on gender empowerment and include measures to combat gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
159.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive legislation banning gender-based discrimination; take effective measures to end gender-based violence, trafficking in women and girls, and sexual exploitation; provide sufficient numbers of safe shelters and other necessary services for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights