146.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts in all the cantons to avoid discrimination based on race, origin and sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Jul 2, 2020
148.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize irregular migration
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.62
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen and implement the effective protection and full integration into society, of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and minorities, including the commitments of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Although Switzerland raised the minimum age of criminal responsibility of children from 7 to 10 years of age, it is recommended that it continue with efforts to bring the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an acceptable level according to international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to reduce prison overcrowding in the country, particularly in the Champ-Dollon prison, and ensure that no one is detained preventively beyond 48 hours
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Typify torture as a specific crime, with all the elements of the definition of article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, take measures to prevent police brutality, particularly against migrants, asylum seekers and foreigners, and adopt an effective and independent mechanism to address such complaints
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Migrants
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a policy and an action plan at the federal level to combat discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, and in particular include them in national surveys on suicides
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt federal legislation against all forms of discrimination, with a clear definition of racial discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and establish safeguards to guarantee birth registration to all children born in the country who would otherwise be stateless
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.12.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify promptly the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
148.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider acceding to International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the development and implementation of concrete measures to strengthen the participation of women and young people in decision-making and representation, as well as measures to eliminate gender-based violence and other forms of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a strategy and an action plan at the federal level on gender equality to promote policies at the cantonal level to combat discrimination against women in the public and private spheres and put an end to all forms of violence, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent national human rights institution with a broad protection mandate and with adequate financial and human resources, in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a national human rights institution of human rights, that is financially and legally independent, in line with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.15.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
147.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with efforts to overcome obstacles faced by the Yenish, Manush, Sinti and Roma in accessing education and preserving their language and lifestyle
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing measures to eliminate wage inequalities between the genders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the inclusive approach towards children with disabilities, especially in education, as well as increase awareness and training efforts for companies and service providers on the treatment of persons with disabilities and their access to all places, for example, that of persons with guide-dogs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Human rights education and training
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures so that all the cantons adopt an approach based on promoting the inclusion of boys and girls with disabilities in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue adopting measures to promote equal representation in different spheres of society, as well as efforts to eliminate wage differences based on gender, particularly in the private sector
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the sentences for the crime of smuggling of persons, and provide more training for judges, police and investigators on this issue
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a new National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons with a gender perspective which guarantees the protection of victims without any type of discrimination, in particular regarding their migration status
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent mechanism empowered to receive complaints relating to violence and ill-treatment by law enforcement officers, and conduct timely, impartial and exhaustive inquiries into such complaints
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out broad and systematic awareness-raising campaigns to combat stigmatization, generalization, stereotypes and prejudice against non-citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Racial discrimination
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out systematic campaigns to combat racist and xenophobic stereotypes, including those against non-citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020
146.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate the effective coordination between the Confederation, the cantons and civil society in relation to follow-up on the recommendations of the universal periodic review, treaty bodies and the special procedures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
- Date modified
- Mar 3, 2020