N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In this context, the key priorities are summarized in this report and there is maintained the commitment to lead efforts for accession and ratification of some key instruments that the country has not acceded, and to submit regular reports to the bodies of United Nations Treaty.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It also commits to strengthen the capacities of institutions aimed at promotion and protection of human rights (National Commission on Human Rights and Ombudsman).
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Mozambique also renews its commitment and desire to improve the mechanisms for the electoral participation of citizens and political parties, spreading knowledge of human rights in general, which are the basis of its constitution, through the strengthening of state institutions and encouraging the participation of civil society (NGOs, media, etc), as a means of promoting and protecting human rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Elections
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Mozambique reaffirms its commitment to ensure a full realization of all human rights and principles enshrined in the light of its Constitutional Charter and other legal devices that do not contradict it.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia commits herself to promote peace and international cooperation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia remained committed to implementing the recommendations that enjoyed its support during the first cycle of the UPR.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia remains committed to enhancing efforts towards the promotion and protection of human rights in order to improve the quality of life for the Namibian people.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia remains committed to implementing the recommendations that enjoyed her support during the first cycle of the UPR and to participating in the second cycle of the UPR in an open and constructive manner.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia shall continue to build the Namibian society in a spirit of harmony and national reconciliation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia shall continue to engage constructively in the deliberations of the Human Rights Council, its subsidiary bodies and mechanisms.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Faced with these challenges, Niger is committed to: (a) Promoting good governance through transparent conduct of public affairs, (b) Catching up on its reporting obligations, (c) Strengthening capacity to follow up on treaty body and universal periodic review recommendations, (d) Regulating the informal sector, (e) Combating illiteracy, (f) Stepping up awareness-raising and training for women in leadership skills, (g) Continuing efforts to amend the Quota Act, (h) Adopting the charter on access to information, (i) Allocating more resources to the education sector, (j) Integrating human rights education into curricula at all levels of the education system, (k) Continuing the implementation of the decent work country programme with ILO, (l) Formulating a national plan of action to combat trafficking, in accordance with the subregional action plan of the Economic Community of West African States, (m) Adopting the draft ordinance on trafficking in persons, (n) Bringing justice closer to the public through the creation of new courts, (o) Establishing a body specialized in prison administration and human rights, (p) Adopting incentives for health personnel to specialize in certain fields and to help them practise, (q) Improving access to medicine, (r) Strengthening existing measures through the setting up of food security stocks, (s) Developing research and modernizing the agricultural and livestock sector in order to improve productivity, (t) Encouraging investment in the water industry to make better use of Niger's potential water resources, (u) Extending the supply of safe drinking water for the population and increasing the number of surface reservoirs for the irrigation of off-season crops, (v) Continuing the fight against desertification, (w) Implementing the national housing policy, (x) Formulating a national child protection policy, (y) Implementing the national gender policy and raising public awareness of violence against women, (z) Continuing efforts to adopt the personal status code, (aa) Formulating and implementing a national human rights plan, (bb) Establishing a national human rights commission in accordance with the Paris Principles, (cc) Creating a directorate for juvenile judicial protection, (dd) Establishing a safe drinking water supply system in all rural villages.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Niger reaffirms its commitment to inviting special rapporteurs to visit the country whenever necessary.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The new leadership of Niger reaffirms its commitment to continued cooperation with the human rights treaty bodies and pledges to respect the obligations arising from the ratification of the various international human rights treaties to which Niger is a party. The authorities will cooperate with the Human Rights Council and implement all the recommendations of the universal periodic review
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With respect to follow-up to the universal periodic review, Niger intends to take the following measures: the organization of a national workshop to report back on the conduct of the review, the preparation of an internal assessment of follow-up, the drafting and submission of a midterm report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of the universal periodic review recommendations, and the drafting of a human rights action plan by the inter-ministerial committee. As with the reparation of the universal periodic review, interested stakeholders (the National Commission on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and civil society) will be involved in this process.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- National Human Rights Institution
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Rwanda is committed to submit periodic reports on the implementation of key human rights treaties: all overdue reports have been prepared and submitted to Treaty Bodies in 2009 and 2010.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Rwanda pledges to provide one cow to every poor family, in order to improve living conditions and to construct decent houses for all vulnerable and marginalized people. Rwanda commits to universal health insurance for all and to provide legal aid to all vulnerable and poor people.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sao Tome and Principe also reaffirmed its compromise to do whatever it deems as appropriate in a reasonable period of time in order to ratify international human rights treaties mentioned in recommendations 64.1 to 64.14 and in recommendations 65.1, 65.2, 64.4, 65.5, 65.6, 65.6 and 65.9 of the Working Group report, and especially those which it has already signed.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider acceding to ICRMW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdraw its reservation on article 4 (a) of ICERD, as this reservation undermines one of the key objectives of this Convention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a comprehensive poverty reduction and social inclusion strategy, which would integrate economic, social and cultural rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Poverty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its laudable measures to address the plight of persons with disabilities, in particular through pursuance of the draft National Disability Strategy, and share its experience in this regard
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive legislation which prohibits discrimination on all grounds to ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights by every member of society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the federal legislation to combat discrimination and ensure an effective implementation with a view to a better protection of the rights of vulnerable persons, in particular children, persons in detention and persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement policies to ensure gender equality throughout society and strengthen the promotion and protection of the rights of women, especially women from indigenous communities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remain steadfast in pursuing its policies towards gender equality, in particular through its Fair Work Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen further the measures to combat discrimination against minority communities, including Muslim communities in Australia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its measures and continue its efforts in promoting multiculturalism and social inclusion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure effective implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, including in the Northern Territory, and provide adequate support to the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples to enable it to address the needs of indigenous people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to increase the representation of indigenous women in decision-making posts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure in its domestic law that the principle of non-refoulement is respected when proceeding with the return of asylum-seekers to countries
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019