139.3.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.6.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Become a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.7.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat racial discrimination and hate speech, accelerate the enactment of the law concerning hate crimes and hate speech, which has been presented for general comments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt the law of 2016 on prevention and combating of hate crimes and hate speech and work towards disseminating a culture of coexistence and enhancing the values of tolerance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.66
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to prevent and eradicate all manifestations of racism and xenophobia and to improve policing responses to violence against non-nationals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts aimed at combating racism and racial discrimination and xenophobia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Exert additional efforts to combat discrimination and xenophobia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the protection of people with albinism from violence, abduction, discrimination, stigmatization and related intolerance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the efforts aimed at combating trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, in the framework of enforcing national legislation and the international conventions that South Africa has ratified
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its poverty reduction policy, particularly for vulnerable groups in isolated and rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to eradicate poverty and social inequality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to achieve development, the eradication of poverty and the elimination of racial discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Racial discrimination
- Right to development
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to ensure that households, schools and health facilities have access to safe water and sanitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to improve the health-care system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.167
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts in the fight against HIV by adopting a comprehensive national policy to deal with the epidemic and diseases that are sexually transmitted and tuberculosis
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue programmes to fight HIV/AIDS
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.182
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to improve the quality of education, including the quality and availability of school facilities, educational materials, teaching staff and curricula, prioritizing the most disadvantaged schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide appropriate solutions to the significant decline in the rate of school attendance in secondary education, especially among girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.189
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to combat all forms of discrimination against women, to fight violence against them and to enhance their presence in higher decision-making positions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.202
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to combat gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.229
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat sexual violence against children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
139.232
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make additional efforts to combat child labour and guarantee children the enjoyment of the rights that are guaranteed to them in accordance with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
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
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pay particular attention to continuing and disseminating the culture of human rights among young people as part of its educational and pedagogical programme.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Give special attention to the role of international cooperation for the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights and recommended South Africa to share its experience, programmes and plans in this field with other developing countries.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make available to the Human Rights Council, as an example of sharing best practices, some of its initiatives relating to combating racism and xenophobia as well as promoting tolerance and coexistence among ethnic and religious minorities.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain and intensify the efforts regarding the elimination of poverty and social inequality.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Persevere in its efforts to promote the rights of education.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date modified
- Jan 17, 2020