N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With the objective of establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles, ask for the assistance of OHCHR.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request technical assistance from relevant United Nations agencies and programmes and conclude partnerships with other interested countries to improve the health system, combat diseases, improve maternal health and reduce child mortality rates.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek from the international community and the relevant United Nations agencies the technical and financial assistance needed to help the Government to overcome challenges and the constraints listed in paragraphs 98 to 107 of the national report.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Request the international community, led by the major industrialized economies, to help promote and protect human rights in Vanuatu by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels that are consistent with full enjoyment of human rights, and by funding adaptation measures to help it cope with those changes that are already taking place.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take targeted action to eliminate the socio-economic disparities that persist among its population, including those affecting Maori, Pacific, Asian and other groups.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to incorporate CEDAW principles into its domestic legislation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to ensure that people belonging to minority groups are not discriminated against in the criminal justice system.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue efforts to combat all forms of discrimination, in particular those based on ethnic origin.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue efforts to settle comprehensively land claims of the indigenous population.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Right to land
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to adopt policies in order to achieve full gender parity.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue fulfilling its obligations under international treaties as well as considering the possibility of acceding to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Proceed with its efforts to improve the health system, combat diseases, improve maternal health and reduce child mortality rates.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening the role of the Ombudsman's office, including its ability to follow up on the results of its investigations, and increase efforts to provide it with sufficient funding.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to incorporate CEDAW principles into its domestic legislation.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take the measures necessary to reduce discrimination against women, in particular on the job market and in national political life, where women are underrepresented, particularly through support for the efforts of the National Council for Women.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to bring about the prompt ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enhance access to basic health services, especially for children.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its efforts to further empower women and enhance their condition and participation in political life.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to reduce the maternal and child mortality rates.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue the initiative to establish Child Desk Officers within the Department of Women's Affairs and intensify efforts to ensure access to free compulsory education for all children in the country.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its efforts to ensure equal rights for men and women.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue engaging members of the international donor community with a view to building capacity, particularly with regard to securing improvements in the economic and social rights situation of its population.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take forward and continue with its efforts to establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue in its implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, with the necessary support of the international community, in order to reduce infant mortality rates, improve maternal health and strengthen the fight against HIV-AIDS, malaria and other illnesses.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to development
- Right to health
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to allocate sufficient resources to ensure the effective implementation of the Family Protection Act.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts in developing a policy on free primary education.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take forward and continue with its efforts to establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
New Zealand accepts in part the recommendations [33 and 34] to continue efforts to prevent discrimination in the criminal justice system and to commit itself to combating overrepresentation of specific groups.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
As recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, pursue means of recording complaints, prosecutions and sentences related to racially motivated crimes and investigate how such issues are addressed through the criminal justice system.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Racial discrimination
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue addressing effectively the socio-economic inequalities affecting the Maori.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples