144.185
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure the effective implementation of child protection legislation, in particular by giving child protection agencies a clear mandate, authority and sufficient resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
118.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt a new criminal code which provides for the abolition of 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
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
137.212
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accelerate the domestic law reforms in order to harmonize all laws in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and ensure their effective implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to fully eradicate sexual mutilation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consolidate cooperation with OHCHR to reinforce its national capacity in human rights, cited in paragraph 108 of the national report.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Consider adopting a comprehensive strategy addressing all forms of discrimination, particularly on promoting the rights of women, girls, and children with disabilities, children living in rural areas, children living in poverty, refugee children and children born out of wedlock
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Disability rights
- Poverty
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Reduce the high rate of maternal mortality and improve access to maternal health information and services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Introduce a comprehensive definition of racial discrimination related to the constitutional provisions on equality and non-discrimination and measures taken
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 26 - November 2016
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 26 - November 2016
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Improve the health-care system and specifically provide further measures on infrastructure and resources to maternal health, including midwife training, with a focus on health care for mothers and babies through pregnancy and childbirth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
144.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Revise the provisions of the Criminal Code on terrorism with a view to defining precisely terrorism-related offences and ensure legislation is in line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
- International instruments
119.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
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
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take further measures to address the difficulties regarding the registration of children at birth and to implement a universal birth registration strategy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure equitable access to education and free education for all children, as well as to promote the rights of girls to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Implement specific standards and regulations ensuring affordable water, sanitation and food for the most vulnerable groups and the barriers and challenges to poverty alleviation are properly addressed
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to water and sanitation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to promote and protect the traditional and indigenous knowledge of the Batwa
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
139.237
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
146.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Eliminate obstacles to the enjoyment of land property rights for women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
31.339
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Criminalize all forms of domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
137.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Sign 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
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
118.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Abolish death penalty by adopting a law commuting all death sentences that have been pronounced.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 26 - November 2016
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Complete the ratification process for the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and for the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
31.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Strengthen the independence of the judiciary
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
137.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Restore immediately cooperation with OHCHR and grant access to the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Burundi (Rwanda); 1 137.38 Re-establish cooperation and collaboration with OHCHR and the Commission of Inquiry by allowing their members unhindered access to the country and relevant sites and people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- UPR process
144.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Prohibit explicitly all forms of sexual and gender-based violence in relation to girls and young women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
144.160
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to eliminate discriminatory stereotypes against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
119.216
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to step up the participation of women in public life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
113.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Africa (African Group)
- Recommendation
Take necessary measures to guarantee girls and boys equal access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child