N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides that Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and to recognize that sex also includes sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately halt the execution of juveniles and political prisoners and, furthermore, establish an official moratorium
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the forms of social security protection applicable to foreign workers who have become unemployed or whose employment has been suspended and who are deprived of the benefits provided to nationals in the same situation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all the necessary measures for the establishment of a moratorium on death penalty in Iraq, as a first step towards its abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate legislative measures to decriminalize irregular entry and stay in Italy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate legislative measures to exclude undocumented stay in Italy as an aggravating circumstance for the purposes of sentencing following a criminal conviction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary steps to ensure freedom of speech as guaranteed by international conventions to which the Gambia is a signatory
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take immediate action to cease the practice of torture in detention facilities, and investigate and prosecute allegations of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that members of the political opposition are able to express their views freely, and are protected against intimidation and violence, including during peaceful demonstrations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the possibility of ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and of accepting the competence of the relevant Committee
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End its severe restrictions on the rights to free expression, association and assembly and end the harassment and persecution of journalists and bloggers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the full respect of the constitutional provisions on freedom of expression, and refrain from using administrative, judicial, or financial means to limit the exercise of this human right
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent institution for the promotion and protection of human rights at the national level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To guarantee the human rights and freedoms of migrant workers through the promotion of legislation on migration that ensures decent and respectful treatment towards this vulnerable group, as well as its access, without discrimination, to, inter alia, health and education systems; accession to the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families would be an important step in that regard
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Halt immediately all executions and implement a moratorium on the use of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to the criminalisation of relations between adults of the same sex, consider harmonising domestic standards with international ones so as to ensure the full exercise of all human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish requirements for the registration of religious groups from the existing Administrative Code, in accordance with the laws adopted in 2005 on the elimination of extremism and the strengthening national security, and to review the provisions of the Law on Freedom of Religion and Religious Associations in order to effectively guarantee freedom of belief and a nondiscriminatory legal system for the registration of religious entities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adhere to the principles set out in the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and to favourably consider its possible ratification, following which the country would be party to all major international human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its Islamic Penal Code law on Offences against the National and International Security of the Country to define national security and associated breaches in specific terms that do not infringe upon the internationally guaranteed rights of free speech and assembly
- 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
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend legislation to comply with international obligations to guarantee freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Women's Bill as well as laws related to marriage, divorce and inheritance to comply with its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out concrete and effective measures, including legislative action to ensure respect for the freedom of expression, association and the press, in conformity with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider a moratorium on death penalty with a view to abolishing it in the future
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider abolishing the death penalty and corporal punishment, in particular against children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate the crime of defamation from the criminal code in order that these facts are examined under the civil code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that human rights are explicitly protected in domestic law, including by reinstating the 1997 Constitution and immediately restoring the judges, magistrates and other judicial officers removed by President Iloilo on 10 April 2009
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that Iraq's legislation guarantees de jure and de facto non discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a special entity entrusted with promoting women's rights or, alternatively, to expand the functions of the Equal Opportunities Commission
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Include in the Criminal Code and Military Penal Code the definition of torture established in the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment