157.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
On gender-based violence: establish accessible reporting mechanisms
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
157.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts in combating trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
- Trafficking
157.11.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdraw reservations to CAT and ratify OP-CAT ( Estonia); 157.12. Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant workers and members of their families (ICRMW)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
157.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
157.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty, establish a moratorium on all pending executions and ratify the second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
157.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue providing support for the work of international humanitarian organizations, including OHCHR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
157.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work towards the ratification of ICRMW
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
157.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to ensure humanitarian aid reaches those in need in cooperation with the Governments of the countries concerned
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
157.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue playing an active role regionally and internationally
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
157.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the productive role championed through the Kuwait Fund for Development
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
157.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive, gender-responsive and disability-inclusive approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation policies, consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Environment and human rights
- Women's rights
157.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to fulfil the seven pillars included in the development plans for 2035
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
157.114
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Scale up efforts to protect the environment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
157.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to implement the development strategy to achieve Kuwait Vision 2035
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
157.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Re-establish the moratorium on executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
157.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen legal accountability for illegal fundraising activities to support terrorist organizations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
157.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Assure the compliance of relevant existing laws with international standards of freedom of expression to ensure the full protection of human rights defenders, journalists and bloggers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
157.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to prevent arbitrary detention and abuses of State authority, including by ensuring the effective guarantee of due process and the avoidance of systematic and sustained pretrial detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Justice
157.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider establishing a moratorium on executions, with a view to abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
157.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the implementation of decisions issued by the courts, especially the rulings related to family disputes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
157.173
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure all employers are aware of their obligations under Kuwaiti law concerning domestic workers, including the illegality of passport confiscation and debt bondage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
157.186
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the public housing policy by providing affordable housing to all families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to housing
157.187
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen and promote programmes aimed at supporting social policies and increase the number of beneficiaries of these policies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
157.188
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to increase public access to quality medical services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
157.189
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue supporting the provision of health care, especially for the benefit of women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
157.190
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue consolidating measures to improve the legislation on the right to health that guarantees universal access to health-care services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
157.191
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to provide care for the elderly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights for older people
157.192
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider establishing a mechanism to monitor the effective delivery of care services for older persons, as more people become reliant on such services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights for older people
157.179
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures and mechanisms to monitor employers’ compliance with the Domestic Workers Law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
157.194
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to effectively disseminate a human rights culture through a training and educational programme and capacity-building activities such as those run by the Foreign Ministry
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training