N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on all issues of mutual interest
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and with the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, including with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further develop and expand human rights awareness-raising programmes in the country
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enforce the provisions of the "Law on legal aid" and ensure that practical procedures to obtain free legal aid are enabling applicants to fully enjoy their rights of access to justice
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are respected and all citizens, including journalists and human rights defenders, are able to pursue their activities without intimidation
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Criminal Code as to abolish the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate steps to ratify various international treaties including the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP-2) and OP-CEDAW
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully cooperate with the Human Rights Council Independent Expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further promote tolerance and dialogue between different ethnic and religious groups
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take necessary measures in order to ratify core international human rights instruments, such as the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to combat and prevent domestic violence and ensure that victims have effective access to complaints mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the enforcement of the legal framework for the prosecution of human traffickers and appropriate assistance for victims of trafficking in human beings
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to provide protection to victims of trafficking in human beings and to ensure systematic procedures for the identification of victims
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider ratifying the Migrant Workers Convention
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Albania was considering accepting the individual complaints procedure under all the human rights conventions to which it was a party.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Albanian Government is committed to implementing the National Strategy and Action Plan for the Decade of Roma Inclusion in order to improve the living standards of Roma community. An effective mechanism is set up to monitor and evaluate the progress at the national level of the National Strategy on Roma and the National Action Plan "Decade of Roma Inclusion" as well as the cooperation among institutions at the central and local level
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Albania had extended a standing invitation to all the special procedures and two special rapporteurs had visited the country during the reporting period. The Government had pledged to continue working with special procedure mandate holders in implementing their recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
While finalizing the new law on administrative and territorial division, take into full account the European Charter of Local Self- Government of the Council of Europe and article 108, paragraph 2, of the Albanian Constitution
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to tackle domestic violence, gender stereotypes and discrimination on that ground
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation on the restitution of the properties confiscated during the communist period
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure early identification of victims of trafficking and provide adequate medical, legal and social assistance, including shelter
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps in order to sign and ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Undertake all necessary measures to end impunity for sexual violence by investigating all allegations of sexual violence and to prosecute individuals against whom there is sufficient evidence of such abuses
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote human rights education and capacity-building
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further develop its integration policy of migrants and national minorities into the society
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further ameliorate the integration process of immigrants and combat all forms of discrimination against them
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- EEG (Eastern European Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination