100.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the 2018 ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice regarding the unconstitutionality of the law banning cross-dressing
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 26, 2021
100.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop more effective policies to fight against gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 25, 2021
100.162
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand essential services for victims of gender-based violence, including the establishment of additional shelters and crisis centres to protect victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 25, 2021
100.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Modify article 149 of the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, update the Prevention of Discrimination Act to include these grounds of discrimination and decriminalize same-sex sexual relations between adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.52
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all provisions of law criminalizing sexual activity between consenting adults, including those of the same sex, and take legislative and other measures to protect survivors of violence based on their sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal legislation criminalizing consensual same-sex activity between adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise the legal framework to decriminalize homosexuality and combat all forms of discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal any legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity and take all necessary steps to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community from all forms of discrimination, including the decriminalization of consensual same- sex conduct between adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize homosexuality and take measures to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the minimum legal age for marriage to 18 and prevent child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.157
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make the necessary legislative amendments to implement its 2008 National Policy on Domestic Violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize the process of establishing the Human Rights Commission and allocate adequate financial and human resources allowing it to carry out its mandate
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the Human Rights Commission complies with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to implement existing anti-discrimination legislation, particularly based on ethnicity, and strengthen investigative mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Racial discrimination
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the laws that criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex status or conduct, including sections 351 to 353 of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.172
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the efforts to prevent and address all forms of violence and discrimination against women, in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 24, 2021
100.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen enforcement of all labour laws by increasing the number of labour inspections and imposing penalties sufficient to deter violations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to increase women’s participation in the active labour force and reduce the vertical and horizontal segregation in employment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.180
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all measures to end genital mutilation and early or forced child marriages and fight effectively against the impunity of perpetrators of gender- based violence, sexual violence and harassment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.181
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment of children both in private and public life in accordance with article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.10.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date modified
- Feb 23, 2021
100.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure victim services are sufficiently available for all victims of trafficking: including men, as well as women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 22, 2021
100.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Build the capacity of the judiciary, law enforcement personnel, border police and social workers regarding gender-sensitive protocols to identify and support victims of human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date modified
- Feb 22, 2021
100.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Integrate sensitization training into the national police curriculum to improve responses to violence and discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity and develop a State policy on preventing and addressing discrimination of persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date modified
- Feb 19, 2021
100.183
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures to prevent abuse of children, including sexual abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Date modified
- Feb 19, 2021
100.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
100.82
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider establishing a de jure moratorium on executions, with a view to fully abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
100.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a formal moratorium on the death penalty with a view to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021