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 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Take specific measures to combat harmful practices in law and in practice, bearing in mind the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Amend the law and expressly prohibit corporal punishment | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Develop programmes and policies of prevention, recovery, and social reintegration of child victims | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Establish an independent mechanism to monitor the rights of the child, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Ratify the Convention against Torture, ICERD and ICCPR | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Continue with the awareness campaigns against gender discrimination, domestic violence and sexual assault and establish mechanisms to effectively act against these sorts of aggressions | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to the definitive elimination of the death penalty from the legislation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Carry out campaigns of awareness and promotion of social change in relation to non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation aimed, inter alia, to avoid homophobic aggression | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Complete the internal procedure necessary for the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, while putting in place the necessary mechanisms to proceed with the signature and ratification of other international human rights agreements that are still pending | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Establish a legal moratorium on the application of death penalty with a view to its definitive abolishment and meanwhile carry out awareness campaigns in order for society to be aware of the ineffectiveness of capital punishment and of its lack of connection with the increase or reduction of crime | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Carry out awareness campaigns for the population in relation to non-discrimination based on sexual orientation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Extend an open and standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations so that they can assist Saint Kitts and Nevis in complying with its human rights obligations, especially those regarding the implementation of the recommendations expressly accepted by Saint Kitts and Nevis, both in its first universal periodic review cycle as well as in the current one | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Proceed to the signature and ratification of the main international human rights instruments that has not already signed and ratified, including the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the participation of children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, whose signature and ratification was itself accepted in the previous review | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Strengthen the measures aimed at accessing health, education and other social services for the Batwa minority in conditions of equality | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Take measures to ensure that the media work freely and prevent any intimidation of journalists | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Take the necessary measures to ensure due process and independence of witnesses, judges and prosecutors | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Establish legal means and practices allowing civil society to develop its activities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Modify the 2012 law regulating NGOs to harmonize it with its human rights obligations | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Adopt a comprehensive policy to protect the rights of persons with disabilities, and to build on measures already adopted such as the establishment of the General Directorate for persons with disabilities | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Take new measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and to promote their participation in public life, including in decision-making positions and governmental functions | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Consider the possibility to establish a moratorium on the application of the death penalty, and commute death sentences to prison sentences | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Reform the status of the National Commission of Human Rights in line with the Paris Principles, thereby guaranteeing its independence | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Eliminate the prohibition of conversion to another religion, which undermines freedom of religion | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Include defenders of human rights of persons with disabilities in the decision-making process on education policies | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Amend legislation on nationality in order to be able to grant Nepali nationality through either parent | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Establish specific mechanisms for the investigation and punishment of possible cases of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, particularly with regard to issues in relation to the administration | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Amend legislation on domestic violence to encompass all forms of sexual violence, including between partners and outside marriage, in addition to threats | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 23 - October 2015 | Guarantee the necessary personal and material resources to protect victims of gender-based violence, especially in emergency situations and as it pertains to the effectiveness of protection orders | 4 - General action | Supported |
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