Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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139.242 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue ensuring that unaccompanied migrant children entering South Africa are kept in child and youth care centres and treated as children in need of care and protection | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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139.241 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Amend legislation and regulations in order to ensure universal birth registration for children born in its territory | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.24 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure birth registration of all children born on South African territory, regardless of the immigration status or nationality of the parents | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.239 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Review its relevant legislation and regulations on birth registration to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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139.238 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.237 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.236 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Further engage in facilitating administrative procedures for birth registration, especially for disadvantaged children coming from rural and poor areas | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.235 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure registration of all children at birth as well as delayed registration of children who have not been registered at birth | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.234 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Expedite the adoption of legislation to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in the home, including “reasonable chastisement“, and ensure that those who perpetrate corporal punishment are held accountable | 4 - General action | Noted |
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139.233 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Adopt legislation to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in the private sphere | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.232 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Make additional efforts to combat child labour and guarantee children the enjoyment of the rights that are guaranteed to them in accordance with international standards | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.231 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Amend the Children’s Act with the aim of prohibiting virginity tests on children, irrespective of their age | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.23 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Steps up its efforts to prevent harmful practices carried out on children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.229 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue efforts to combat sexual violence against children | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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139.228 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Develop specific measures to educate society and enforce existing legislation addressing the practice of ukuthwala and other customary practices leading to forced and child marriages | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.227 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Take all necessary measures to end sexual and gender-based violence, especially by developing adequate gender-sensitive training programmes for law enforcement agencies, the national prosecuting authority and judicial officers and by adopting specific legislation addressing the practice of ukuthwala (child marriage) | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.226 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Revise the Children’s Act in order to set the minimum age for marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.225 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure in national legislation that the minimum age for marriage is 18 years for both girls and boys and take all necessary measures to prevent and eliminate child sex tourism and exploitation of child labour | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.224 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Harmonize the South African legislation to ensure that the minimum age for marriage is established at 18 years for both boys and girls | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.223 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Increase the age of marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls and harmonize legislation to this effect | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.222 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child through the harmonization of its national laws to ensure that the minimum age for marriage is established at 18 years for both girls and boys and remove barriers to birth registration | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.221 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Harmonize legislation in order to ensure that the minimum age of marriage is increased to 18 years for boys and girls, without exception | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.213 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Adopt additional measures to combat all kinds of gender-based violence and to enforce the existing legislation on the matter by, inter alia, promoting awareness campaigns and providing appropriate care to women and girls victims of violence | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.209 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Set in place a comprehensive, national coordinated strategy to address gender-based violence in order to ensure the implementation of the legal framework and to tackle the high prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence, including against children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.208 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Adopt a comprehensive national plan to address comprehensively the problem of gender-based violence, whether physical, psychological or sexual, providing to all relevant public services sufficient resources to implement these policies, taking into account the specific circumstances of women and girls who suffer from the most serious vulnerability | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.201 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Take all necessary measures to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights by women and girls, including by combating sexual and gender-based violence | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.2 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Work to eradicate harmful cultural or traditional practices against women and girls by conducting educational campaigns, encouraging reporting of cases and publically denouncing such practices, by urgently providing an adequate budget for the implementation of key measures of the Domestic Violence Act, and by strengthening the systematic and comprehensive collection of disaggregated data related to the incidence of all forms of violence against women, including femicide and intimate partner violence, and by using this data to inform its policy responses and monitoring | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.196 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Prevent and combat all forms of discrimination and eliminate violence against women, including domestic violence | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.188 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Prioritize implementing the right to an inclusive basic education for all children with disabilities | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.181 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue to adequately resource its provincial schools building programme so that more children, particularly those from poor rural communities, can have access to schools that are safe and adequately equipped | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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