N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Despite the volume of work performed there is still much to do in this field [equal oportunities for persons with disabilities], the State is committed to ensure the continuity of those activities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
On the recommendations relating to the gender equality and the fight against violence against women, the delegation stated that the Government was committed to continue its social and institutional reforms so that women were protected against all forms of violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reiterated Government's commitment to respect civil and political rights and to enable every Guinean citizen to enjoy them fully, in particular in view of the forthcoming elections. It added that it was important to consolidate and expand those rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Elections
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Guinea presented its initial report to the Committee against Torture on 6 May 2014. The Ministry of Human Rights took that opportunity to reiterate the commitment by Guinea to accede to the Optional Protocol.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea is committed to undertaking ambitious and courageous reforms aimed at building a democratic society that respects human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Committed to continuing its efforts to defend the principle of equality between men and women, women's access to education, the place of women in the world of work and the rights of women in the family.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government remains committed to doing everything in its power to shed light on the heinous crimes committed on that date.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea is committed to doing everything in its power to fully implement the principle of gender equality in its education and legal systems and its institutions. The Government remains very concerned about the issue of violence against women.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea acknowledges that it is experiencing difficulties in protecting and supporting victims and witnesses. However, it remains committed to setting up an effective and consistent mechanism to this end.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea acknowledges that there are serious difficulties in launching the national reconciliation process. However, consultations on how to proceed have begun nationwide. The Government is committed to pursuing its efforts to ensure that the process comes to a successful conclusion
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea-Bissau sought to fulfill the commitments made in this regard with the publication of the said laws allowing detainees female to be in separate cells with the male.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With the return to constitutional normality, following the early presidential and parliamentary elections in 2014, the current Government strengthened its political will and its commitment to continuing its efforts to implement the universal periodic review and to mobilizing resources to promote sustainable development policies aimed at poverty eradication, reform of the justice system, consolidation of the rule of law and the promotion and protection of human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Elections
- Justice
- Poverty
- Right to development
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Although Guyana did not accept Recommendations 70.44, 70.45 and 70.46, it re-affirmed its commitment to investigate any and all allegations of extra-judicial killings through a transparent process and report on efforts made.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana had voluntarily committed to hold consultations on 28 of the 55 recommendations. Those included recommendations on the abolition of the death penalty, on the abolition of corporal punishment, on the decriminalization of consensual same-sex adult sexual relations and on discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, and on the age of criminality.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Regarding the legal services in the hinterland, Guyana had expanded those services and had committed to continue to work on that issue
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Kenya is committed to implementing its domestic and international obligations arising from the human rights treaties that it has ratified.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to ensuring the progressive implementation of the principle that at least five percent of the members of the public in elective and appointive bodies are persons with disabilities as is provided for under Article 54(2) of the Constitution. Article 100 of the Constitution provides for the enactment of legislation to promote the representation in Parliament for marginalized groups which includes persons with disabilities, by 2015.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Elections
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Kenya is committed to reducing hunger and malnutrition.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to food
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Kenya has committed itself to ensuring the right to adequate housing through a number of policies, legislative and programmatic interventions.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to housing
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to ensuring a rapid and efficient transition to a two tier government under which county governments will assume full responsibility of the functions assigned to them under the constitution.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to the establishment of an institutional and legislative framework for the provision of affordable legal aid and awareness services for all.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government was committed to implementing the recommendations contained in the report of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to addressing issues for people with disabilities, for example by providing easy access through the Class Rehabilitation Program that includes ramp access for children with disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Kiribati commits to continuing and completing work on the implementation of the key priorities under the Kiribati Development Plan. Kiribati commits to working with partners nationally, regionally and internationally to implement its human rights obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government was strongly committed to upholding and ensuring human rights for its people, the delegation took careful note of the comments made during the UPR session, and Kiribati would continue to work hard in meeting its human rights obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Kuwait remained firmly committed to submitting its periodic reports to treaty bodies
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Kyrgyzstan is firmly committed to protecting and promoting all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation highlighted the Government's commitment to strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions. Fully aware of the existing human rights issues, the Government had strengthened its efforts to improve the respect of human rights and of the rule of law in past years.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reiterated the firm commitment of Kyrgyzstan to improving the human rights protection system and ensuring the compliance of national law with the international human rights system.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic reiterated the commitment of the Government to maintaining equality, justice and the rule of law.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019