N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
While paying special tribute to the pioneering role of Brazil in developing bio fuels based on non-edible agricultural products, scale up this experience and preserve the right to food.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to food
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Follow up on measures to combat trafficking of migrants, in particular migrant women.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its efforts to counter discrimination in whatever form, in particular towards the most vulnerable sectors of the population in the follow-up to the Durban Conference and the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge the harm done to the victims of sterilization, in particular Roma, and to bring perpetrators to Justice and provide reparations to the victims.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop appropriate training and awareness-raising measures towards the Roma, ethnic minorities and other marginalized groups and to create a Justice system complying with international standards and ensuring that the perpetrators can be brought to Justice.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider new ways of addressing growing economic and social inequities arising out of rapid economic growth and share experiences-results of best practices in addressing poverty.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to development
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider withdrawal of reservations with respect to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the Netherlands Antilles.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Give adequate training and instruction to law enforcing bodies and to the judiciary on how to address complaints stemming from racially motivated crimes
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fulfil the recommendation, elaborated on in paragraph 2 of the OHCHR summary, made by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, who in 2007 called upon Poland to enact a comprehensive body of anti-discrimination legislation and to set up a body to combat discrimination.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further intensify its efforts to decrease the HIV-AIDS prevalence in the context of its National Health Charter, with a special focus on teenagers.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accept the full and unrestricted implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in overseas territories under its control.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact anti-discrimination legislation in the field of access to private and public housing.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to housing
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adhere to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of their Families.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote awareness of diversity and multiculturalism at all levels of education.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recommended that limits be set for pre-trial detention, according to minimum international standards.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Alleviate the overcrowding of detention centres and to review the conditions of detention centres so that they are in conformity with minimum international standards.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adhere to the recommendation by CEDAW to closely monitor the effective implementation of the new legal framework in the Employment Act and Labour Code, provide anti-discrimination provisions for the advancement of women and minorities and ensure that the private sector fully abides by anti-discrimination laws.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address the high incarceration rate of children, ensure that the privacy of children is protected.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize its legislation with its human rights obligations towards individual protesters exercising their freedom of expression and opinion and to curtail excessive pretrial detention.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect the children and families of migrants and refugees.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate the access of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to its prisons.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put an end to the so-called painful techniques applied to children.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts, together with other signatories to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, to guarantee better accession.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide adequate protection for human rights defenders and marginalized groups against racially motivated violence
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate and effective measures to fight discrimination and violence against Roma and ensure their equal access to education, housing, health care and employment.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure proper representation of minorities in the labour market as per the ratio of minorities.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that information on the implementation of human rights conventions in the overseas territories be consistently included in reports to treaty bodies.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies