106.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the efforts to combat gender-based violence against women, in particular domestic and sexual violence and, in this context, increase the collection of statistical data
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
104.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review national law in order to protect the rights to freedom of expression, association and participation in peaceful protests
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
107.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all allegations of extrajudicial executions and ill-treatment by law enforcement officials are duly investigated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
134.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to combat incidents of ethnic or racially motivated violence and hatred, including against migrants and refugees, and ensure that advocacy or incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence is prohibited by law and that breaches are investigated and perpetrators held accountable
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination
134.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, inter alia by including sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds for hate crimes, recognize civil partnerships of same- sex couples and ban non-consensual surgeries on intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
104.90.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure technical and financial resources to the recently created mechanisms to protect human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
104.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts on human rights education and training to law enforcement officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
133.171
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect women human rights defenders from those who seek to intimidate them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Women's rights
26.242
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further action to prevent overcrowding of jails and prisons, especially during the current pandemic; eliminating or reducing mandatory minimum sentences would be crucial to this effect
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
26.289
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps to ensure the enjoyment of the human right to health by all its people without discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
103.204
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to eliminate all forms of child labour and to ensure that all children, including girls and children with disabilities, have access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
137.202
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its efforts to adapt its legislation and practices to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including by restoring legal capacity, substituting involuntary institutionalization with psychiatric services at liberty, and restricting the application of coercion in respect of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Right to health
137.209
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reinforce the protection of the rights of migrants and refugees, including by ensuring the enjoyment of their rights to education and to health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Right to education
- Right to health
148.250
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of every child, regardless of their origin or nationality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
106.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee that all children have access to education, especially those living in poverty and on the outer islands, and increase efforts to prevent children from dropping out of school by, inter alia, strengthening measures to combat child marriage, pregnancy among girls and adolescents and child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
84.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conclude the ratification process of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
84.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to guarantee the accessibility of mental health and psychosocial support to children and adolescents, regardless of the family economic situation, and develop alternative methods of support for persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities which respect their rights, in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including by combating institutionalization, stigma, violence, coercion and overmedicalization, and by providing mental health services which promote inclusion in the community and respect people’s free and informed consent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Discrimination
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
122.78
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to enforce existing legal provisions in order to prevent all forms of attacks, ritual killings, violence, discrimination and stigma against persons with albinism; provide training to public officials, and ensure that all offences are investigated and victims and their families provided with psychosocial, medical and legal assistance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Human rights education and training
- Minority rights
- Right to health
26.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that federal and state authorities impose a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty nationwide
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
103.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to tackle stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members and to ensure them timely and adequate access to health services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Right to health
106.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to tackle stigma and discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their families and to ensure they have timely and adequate access to health services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Right to health
137.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide training on human rights and on combating discrimination and violence, including based on sexual orientation and gender identity, to health personnel, members of the judiciary, police forces and prison officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Discrimination
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
104.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact a comprehensive law to protect, respect and fulfil women’s rights, including sexual and reproductive rights, and adopt an action plan for its implementation and monitoring
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
103.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination legal framework, which includes, inter alia, the prohibition of all forms of discrimination against women, persons affected by HIV/AIDS, persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities and Ebola survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Discrimination
- HIV - Aids
- Women's rights
138.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Define “torture” in its Criminal Code as a specific crime in accordance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and investigate all allegations of widespread practices of torture, ill-treatment and the use of disproportionate force against peaceful protesters, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Human rights violations by state agents
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
124.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
107.92
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Sexual Offences Act with a view to criminalizing all forms of marital rape and implement effectively the Strategic Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-based Violence, guaranteeing due reporting, investigation and prosecution of gender-based violence, particularly domestic and sexual violence, abuse and harassment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
109.4.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
133.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Lift the remaining reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
133.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove from Maldivian law all provisions that discriminate on the basis of religion, namely those regarding citizenship, and accede to the United Nations conventions on statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination