N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform the status of the National Commission of Human Rights in line with the Paris Principles, thereby guaranteeing its independence
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium in order to abolish the capital punishment, and change those sentences to imprisonment and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the National Committee on Persons with Disabilities, fully ensuring its operations through the development of its norms and provision of adequate financial resources, adopt a national strategy to eliminate de facto discrimination against persons with disabilities based on an appropriate statistics system
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify ICCPR, ICESCR, CAT and their Optional Protocols as well as the Optional Protocols to CEDAW, CPRD and CED
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the national human rights institution, and adapt it fully to the Paris Principles, with a broad and clear mandate, and adequate funding
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend an open and standing invitation to all special procedures
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
134.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Translate, de jure, the de facto suspension that has been implemented since 2015 on the execution of the death penalty, through the formal adoption of an indefinite moratorium
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify gender efforts, amending relevant legal provisions which establish subordination to male guardianship and adopt a comprehensive gender policy and awareness campaigns aimed at all areas of society and public administration
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and fully align its national legislation with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Include an explicit provision in the Omani domestic legislation on prohibition of discrimination against women in all areas of life, including in the private sphere
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review its Nationality Law in order to ensure that an Omani mother has the right to confer the Omani citizenship to her children without discrimination
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive policy to protect the rights of persons with disabilities, and to build on measures already adopted such as the establishment of the General Directorate for persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the death penalty as an interim measure towards its total abolition
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the possibility to establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty, and commute death sentences to prison sentences
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take new measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and to promote their participation in public life, including in decision-making positions and governmental functions
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
134.258
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consolidate fundamentally, through an appropriate legal regime, the evolution that the situation of women in Omani society has undergone, through a new framework for the protection of their autonomy in the field of family law and the transmission of nationality, as well as continuing to advance the equality of women in all areas of society
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
134.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to complement the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
134.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdraw its reservations to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
134.74.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an official moratorium on imposing and carrying out the death penalty, as a step towards its complete abolition
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
134.170
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize all forms of violence against women, in particular domestic violence, and ensure the prosecution of perpetrators of crimes committed in the name of so-called “honour”
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- WEOG (Western European & Other States Group)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- GRULAC (Group of Latin American & Caribbean States)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a coordinated general strategy on gender issues in all public institutions
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- GRULAC (Group of Latin American & Caribbean States)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the active presence of women in the society
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- GRULAC (Group of Latin American & Caribbean States)
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
134.222
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Substantially modify the sponsorship system known as kafalah to reduce the risk of migrant workers being subject to labour exploitation, including forced labour, by disassociating their status as migrants from a particular employer and allowing them to renew their own residence permits
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- GRULAC (Group of Latin American & Caribbean States)
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
134.259
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In follow-up to recommendations from the previous cycle, review legislation that is discriminatory on the grounds of gender, particularly with regard to rights in marriage, divorce and inheritance, guaranteeing the right of mothers to transfer nationality to their children
- Recommending State
- Recommending State - Regional Group
- GRULAC (Group of Latin American & Caribbean States)
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- UPR process
- Women's rights