UPR Info

Continue energizing existing mechanisms to enhance the addressing of human rights challenges.

Continue efforts to allow for a harmonious life in a multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual society.

Continue its efforts, together with other signatories to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, to guarantee better accession.

Increase its efforts to provide mediation machinery to provide victims of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation more accessible and rapid remedies.

Designate an Ombudsperson for children.

Implement the national mechanism established in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.

Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol.

Better distribute food and other resources with a view to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Address the issue of unduly protracted detentions and promote the use of alternative measures to pretrial detention, in particular for pregnant women and young children.

Adopt measures to improve prison conditions, especially the overcrowding.

Pursue its efforts to combat poverty and promote economic, social and cultural rights with a view to achieve the MDG's by 2015.

Pursue efforts to counter discrimination in whatever form, in particular towards the most vulnerable sectors of the population in the follow-up to the Durban Conference and the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Pursue efforts to counter discrimination in whatever form, in particular towards the most vulnerable sectors of the population in the follow-up to the Durban Conference and the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Pursue efforts to counter discrimination in whatever form, in particular towards the most vulnerable sectors of the population in the follow-up to the Durban Conference and the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Increase training in international human rights law for the judiciary and measures to strengthen its independence

Promote the institutionalization of the agency for social inclusion of Roma communities.

Take concrete measures to implement ICESCR and carry out a constructive dialogue with the CESCR.

Acknowledge the harm done to the victims of sterilization, in particular Roma, and bring perpetrators to Justice and provide reparations to the victims.

Consider using the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as a guide to assist in its policies development.

Continue reviewing the procedures regarding requests for asylum in the light of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.

Continue to take effective measures to prevent violence against women.

Continue to take effective measures to prevent violence against women.

Take into account recommendations made by treaty bodies and special procedures, especially those relating to women and children, in developing a national action plan for human rights

Share best practices in the promotion and protection of human rights taking into account the multireligious, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nature of Indian society.

Expedite ratification of the Convention against Torture

Strengthen human rights education, specifically in order to address effectively the phenomenon of gender-based and caste-based discrimination.

Receive as soon as possible the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture.

Consider new ways of addressing growing economic and social inequities arising out of rapid economic growth and share experiences-results of best practices in addressing poverty.

Review the reservation to article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Consider extending a standing invitation to special procedures.