Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue human rights education to all Guatemalans, in order for this generation and future generations to leave behind forever the culture of violence inherited from years of internal armed conflict. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue to expand its programmes of social justice in promoting economic, social and cultural rights, in particular health programmes where Cuba also commits itself to continue and deepen the extent of its cooperation. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue its efforts in the fight against impunity in favour of the security of citizens. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue its efforts in respect of the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue to provide support to national human rights institutions and create new ones, if the need arises. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Consider harmonizing Guatemala's civil and penal codes with international human rights norms, in relation to racial discrimination and gender issues | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Consider as a good practice, to be continued and strengthened, the project conducted by the Ministry of Education, in the framework of the Peace Agreements, to promote a culture of peace in Guatemalan society, especially among young people. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Provide for and ensure the personal security of human rights defenders, witnesses, court officials, prosecutors and others who are subject to threats and other abuses connected with their efforts to support human rights and democracy, to combat impunity | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Allocate and provide all necessary financial, technical and personnel resources to combat impunity and lack of respect for the rule of law, including to combat corruption and impunity within the government's institutions | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take additional steps to combat the impunity which has contributed to the rise in femicide and the attacks on human rights defenders. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Adopt effective measures to strengthen and guarantee the independence of the Unit for the protection of human rights defenders within the Presidential Commission for Human Rights, and to protect human rights defenders from any further violence. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take all the necessary measures to fight against femicide and the lynching and killings of persons based on their sexual orientation. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Reduce illiteracy rates, in particular among women. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Recommended full commitment of the national human rights commission to the improvement of indigenous rights. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Provide better police protection to judges, investigators and witnesses. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Accelerate the poverty alleviation programmes with a view to addressing the uneven distribution of wealth, access to health and the high level of social exclusion of indigenous peoples and People of African Descent. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Put an end to impunity for reported attacks against members of marginalized communities, including on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as to put in operation awareness-raising efforts in that respect, targeted particularly at law enforcement officials and the judiciary. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Follow up the CERD and other human rights bodies and mechanisms' relevant recommendations towards enhancing de jure and de facto equal protection of indigenous peoples, including the Maya, Xinca and Garifuna peoples. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Follow up the CEDAW recommendation to Guatemala to ensure that indigenous women have full access to bilingual education, health services and credit facilities and to fully participate in decision making processes. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that a gender perspective is fully integrated in the next stages of the review, including the outcome of the UPR process. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take steps to ensure a reduction in the attacks on human rights defenders and to bring the perpetrators of such attacks to justice. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Reform the law on radio communication in order to guarantee the proper and free functioning of local radios. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that new human rights units are part of an integral plan for the justice and security sector. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Promote the approval of the national policy and action plan for human rights | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Obtain support from the CICIG and enhance judicial power to solve the issue of impunity. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Establish an environment where a judge can make a fair and appropriate decision without intimidation. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Maintain and strengthen the moratorium currently in force with a view to abolishing the death penalty. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Strengthen its efforts to fully implement the concluding observations adopted by CERD, as well as other relevant concluding observations adopted by other treaty bodies. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure the protection of its citizens' economic, social and cultural rights. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure the protection of indigenous peoples' rights and ensure the right of indigenous peoples to be heard before traditional indigenous land is being exploited. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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