N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek technical assistance and cooperation from the international community to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to strengthen its human rights institution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- National Human Rights Institution
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek the required technical assistance in order to meet its various human rights obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to protect children against violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote and protect the fundamental freedoms and human rights of all its citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to strengthen human rights institutions, including the judiciary and the Ministry of Women and Human Rights in order to ensure effective protection and promotion of human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to adopt the national law to combat terrorism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Public security
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue enhancing the right to education and provide training services and professional development to the teachers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to create a national human rights institution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts for the operationalization of the National Human Rights Commission
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to improve access to health care, in particularly to combat malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen its human rights institutions and develop additional measures to ensure the effective implementation of their mandate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combating customary practices which tolerate gender-based violence and discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to strengthen the capacity and compatibility between the investigation and prosecution of cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts towards reducing poverty through continuing setting up programs aimed at this purpose
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen the appropriate health care provided to women, in particular in rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to clear the backlog observed in the process of ratification of certain legal instruments, in accordance with the recommendations formulated in its first universal periodic review of Belgium
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the reforms to improve policies and programmes towards promotion and protection of all human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing the 3N Initiative in order to ensure the full realization of the right to food
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to food
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue promoting education for all, in particular for persons with special needs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue measures for the protection of children, in particular children living in the streets and domestic worker children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat poverty and provide assistance to families with limited income
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to harmonize its legislation and ensure equality between men and women, particularly in marriage and family relations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue preserving social harmony, as a diverse cultural and linguistic nation, to build a fair and inclusive society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its land reform and resettlement program in order to enable underprivileged persons to have access to land, given that the right to land is a fundamental human right
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to land
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue Government's efforts with its land reform and resettlement programme, both at the rural and urban level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to land
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue taking further measures to eliminate female genital 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 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to increase the school enrolment rate and literacy among nomadic populations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to fight against all forms of discrimination affecting religious minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue to promote and protect the fundamental freedoms and human rights of all its citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 24 - January 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the efforts to combat the practice of female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights