N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national strategy to eliminate stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, and ensure orphaned and vulnerable children have access to health and education services and are protected from violence and abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to repeal laws and practices that are discriminatory toward women, including in respect of property, land ownership and marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt a new media law enshrining freedom of the press
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure that impartial, independent investigations are undertaken into allegations of human rights violations by security forces, including torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, and that the findings of those investigations be made public
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Arrange for the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression as soon as possible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Put in place and adequately fund mechanisms for the collection and analysis of disaggregated data on maternal mortality and morbidity and domestic violence in order to better understand prevailing trends and assess the effectiveness of measures in place
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take concrete and immediate measures to guarantee the independence and the impartiality of the judiciary
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Launch a nationwide education and awareness campaign to prevent stigmatization of persons with albinism to ensure their security and facilitate their equal access to education and employment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt a law prohibiting domestic violence and adopt the necessary measures to ensure its implementation, including inter alia through an information and awareness-raising campaign amongst the population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Amend legislation to ensure that sexual orientation and gender identity are included as prohibited grounds for discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Put in place appropriate regulatory and enforcement measures to increase compliance with the Domestic Violence Act and the Female Genital Mutilation act, and take steps to ensure that acts of violence against women, including women with disabilities, are investigated and prosecuted
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take steps to ensure that well -functioning health information systems are in place which combine disaggregated data from facilities, administrative sources and surveys, to enable effective monitoring of progress
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Publicly announce the shelving of the proposed bill on homosexuality and decriminalize homosexual behaviour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Undertake impartial, independent and comprehensive investigations into the 2008 election-related violence, including cases of rape, with guarantees of protection for witnesses, survivors and their families, and prosecute the alleged perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Amend its legislation, including the Public Order and Security Act, to enshrine the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and to freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Redouble its efforts to develop and maintain a qualified cadre of highly motivated primary and secondary school teachers capable of providing quality education to students
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure that military personnel assigned to peace missions are provided with adequate training and clear guidance in relation to the protection, rights and needs of women, including issues related to sexual and gender-based violence as well as sexual exploitation and abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps to comply fully with the minimum standards of the Kimberly Process, including by increasing accountability and transparency in the use of profits from natural resources, and investigating any credible allegation of human rights abuses, particularly in the Marange region
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take adequate measures to counter the worrying increase of violence against, abuse and sexual exploitation of children, by ensuring the implementation of applicable laws including through awareness and education programmes targeting more particularly parents, teachers, correctional officers and other relevant professionals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Put in place human rights training programmes for members of the judiciary and law enforcement officials, including the police, security forces and correctional officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Implement a comprehensive legal and policy framework to end practices which are discriminatory and lead to violence against women and girls, including witchcraft killings, rape, domestic violence and practices related to customary ownership and inheritance of land
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to land
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Improve the efficiency of the justice system by streamlining and simplifying judicial procedures including introducing a case management system that tracks individual cases from filing to disposition and limits the amount of time each case can be held at each stage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Modify practices for the recruitment and retention of public civil servants and army personnel in order to guarantee equal opportunities, representativeness of the ethnic and cultural composition of the country, and to facilitate the employment of women in traditionally male-dominated sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Implement a strategy aimed at improving detention conditions by reducing prison overcrowding and ensuring that female detainees can be guarded by female correctional officers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take concrete and effective measures to ensure that food, medicine and other humanitarian relief distribution at Government depots takes place without reference to partisan political considerations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Enact legislation criminalizing torture and amend all relevant laws to fully comply with the obligations under CAT
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Abolish provisions in the Martial Law Act and section 17 of the Emergency Decree which grant immunity for criminal and civil prosecution to State officials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen the legal rights framework and enforcement of these rights for migrants, asylum seekers and victims of trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Review the Gender Equality Bill and remove exceptions therein which would allow for discrimination against women, consistent with CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Promptly investigate all allegations of human rights violations, including in the three southernmost provinces, and bring perpetrators to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other