96.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts aimed at finalizing the various pending human rights- related legislation, including the draft national gender policy, the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill and the draft Juvenile Justice Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
96.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider establishing an official moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to totally abolishing it, while noting that the country has maintained a de facto moratorium for more than 30 years
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
96.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility for children and to reverse the practice of trying persons aged 16 as adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
105.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to overcome challenges in implementing international legal norms by strengthening the effectiveness of its national human rights institutional framework
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
105.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take timely and effective actions towards safeguarding the freedom of expression, including by curbing impunity for attacks against journalists, other media practitioners and media houses, and ensuring prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations into such cases, as well as bringing the perpetrators to book
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
105.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a formal moratorium on executions and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with a view to abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
105.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement equal opportunity policies aimed at promoting gender equality between men and women in all spheres, combating domestic violence and violence against women, and eliminating traditional gender stereotypes regarding women’s roles in society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
105.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment for children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
105.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts aimed at addressing the discriminatory provisions in nationality laws
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
105.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce into law a mechanism to expedite the determination of statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
108.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
108.8.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
108.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate steps to fully implement the National Action Plan against Racism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
108.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing policies aimed at eliminating discrimination against women and at promoting gender equality, including in political and economic life, and address the wage gap between men and women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
108.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate steps aimed at fully funding and strengthening the Equal Opportunities Office
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
114.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps aimed at fully implementing the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
114.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps towards the implementation of programmes and policies aimed at eliminating practices that are harmful to women’s and girls’ health, including excision
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
115.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revive consultations on the proposed bill for the abolition of the death penalty and consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
115.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Align the minimum age of marriage for girls with international standards to 18 as opposed to 16, in order to eradicate early and forced marriage for girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
118.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Heed the calls for Israel to recognize and accept the applicability, to the OPT, of its international obligations, deriving from international treaties it is party to
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
118.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Discontinue the collective punishment of Palestinians
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
118.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reverse policies and practices that negatively affect the enjoyment of human rights by Palestinians both in Israel and in the OPT, including the blockade on Gaza, demolition of houses, destruction of property and natural resources, illegal settlements on Palestinian lands and many others
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
127.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Domesticate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in order to enhance the promotion and protection of women’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
127.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps towards the finalization of the bill on the transformation of the Office of the Ombudsman into a hybrid national human rights institution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
129.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
While welcoming the public debates on the death sentence, Namibia encourages Botswana to consider placing a moratorium on executions, commute all death sentences to other sentences and consider ratifying 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
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
137.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fast-track the process leading to the finalization of the memorandum of understanding with OHCHR with a view to restoring cooperation with the Office
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
137.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary action, including the provision of resources, to ensure the credibility and independence of the National Independent Human Rights Commission
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
137.213
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the code on persons and family and the nationality code, in order to remove the gender-based discriminatory provisions contained therein
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
145.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an institution specifically dedicated to anti-discrimination for various categories of its population, and consider collecting disaggregated data to that effect
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
145.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate actions aimed at prosecuting Rwanda genocide suspects living in France, or alternatively, extradite them to the competent jurisdiction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice