UPR Info

Protect against the trafficking of children to and from Barbados, through implementation of the Trafficking in Persons Prevention Act 2016, strengthening regional and international cooperation and carrying out awareness-raising activities

Continue with the efforts to address the issue of maternal mortality in the country

Consider ratifying the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Improve access to quality health-care services for all, including in remote areas, and address the challenges of maternal mortality

Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol

Abolish the death penalty, and commute all death penalties into prison sentences

Ensure that adequate resources and support are provided to facilitate the reintegration of teenage mothers into the school environment post-delivery or birth

Consider positively the ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Strengthen the protection of children, including by providing for the prohibition of corporal punishment of children within the children protection bill and the juvenile justice bill

Strengthen national efforts aimed at combating corruption, investigating it and prosecuting its perpetrators

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Redouble efforts in the fight against discrimination against women and continue promoting their active participation in all spheres of society

Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol

Continue its positive experience in combating human trafficking and assistance provided to victims through the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking

Redouble efforts to guarantee the right to food and consider food and agricultural policies appropriate to the needs of its population

Continue to take steps against all forms of discrimination against women

Make the necessary effort to ensure the timely finalization of its national gender policy

Criminalize sexual abuse in all places and circumstances

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

Consider taking additional steps towards the total abolition of the death penalty, including the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Consider introducing a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to abolishing it

Take further steps to protect children, including prohibiting corporal punishment

Promulgate a law that prohibits corporal punishment of minors in all walks of life

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of 2000

Approve the Child Protection Bill to strengthen legislation to promote protection of the rights of children and adolescents

Consider ratifying the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol

Continue its efforts to support teenage mothers in their pursuit of an education, including through the elaboration of a policy on this matter

Take the necessary measures to harmonize the definition of the child in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Continue efforts towards the abolition of the death penalty