Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections

Increase budget allocations from the central Government to enable the establishment of ombudsman offices in all regions of the country

Abolish the provisions which authorize corporal punishment

Take all necessary measures to ensure the effective implementation of the Family Protection Act 2013 and that it place a particular focus on legal and cultural awareness-raising campaigns

Further strengthen mechanisms for citizens, including civil society organizations, to participate in law-making, oversight, national planning and budgeting processes

Prioritize gender equality, as well as increase women’s participation at all levels of social, political and economic decision-making in government

Take measures to reinforce protections for freedom of expression, including guaranteeing the independence of public and private media

Conclude the process of ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and reconsider all the potential reservations thereto

Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment without further delay

Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and support the disaggregation of Sustainable Development Goals reporting data by disability

Accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratify the International Labour Organization Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) as part of the Government’s ongoing commitment to achieving target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals

Introduce comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to provide equal protection for all persons, including vulnerable groups like people with disabilities, and on all grounds, including sexual orientation and gender identity

Decriminalize consensual same-sex relations

Repeal legislation that criminalizes same-sex sexual practices between consenting adults and increase efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination that target individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity

Introduce comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to provide equal protection against discrimination for all persons and on all grounds, including sexual orientation or gender identity

Revise the Criminal Offences Act in order to decriminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex

Repeal the provisions of the Tongan Criminal Offences Act that criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex status and conduct

Formally abolish the death penalty, including by ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Second Optional Protocol, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Consider fully abolishing the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty, considering its de facto moratorium since 1982

Transform its de facto moratorium on the application of the death penalty into a definitive abolition

Develop a broader legal aid system that offers free legal counsel to indigent defendants

Amend the Land Act currently in effect, particularly its provision preventing women from inheriting land

Prioritize work to eliminate violence against women, and to improve gender equality, including in relation to property and employment

Accelerate efforts to re-establish State authority and the rule of law in all areas of the country, including the northern and central regions

Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of death penalty, and take appropriate measures to abolish the death penalty

Consider fully abolishing the death penalty