Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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124.36 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Take concrete legal and policy measures, including the provision of adequate human rights training for health personnel, to eliminate all forms of stigma and discrimination in health settings, in particular against women and girls, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, persons affected by HIV/AIDS and persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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124.26 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Establish a de jure moratorium on the death penalty leading to its definitive abolition, and consider ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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124.16 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Increase access to and the availability of quality health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons | 4 - General action | Noted |
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124.12 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Decriminalize consenting relations between persons of the same sex, prosecute the perpetrators of the growing attacks against persons belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, and guarantee that those persons do not face de jure or de facto discrimination | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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124.6 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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124.5 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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124.3 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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122.182 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Strengthen the mechanisms for the protection of the rights of boys and girls with disabilities, albinism or HIV/AIDS | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.176 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Strengthen measures to eradicate child marriage, criminalize the crimes of the sale of children and child pornography, and reinforce the conditions to make compulsory and free primary education effective | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.169 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Adopt all necessary measures to eradicate child marriage, and develop comprehensive awareness campaigns and programmes on the provisions that criminalize harmful practices and on the damage they do to children, as well as campaigns on the harmful effects of child marriage on girls’ physical and mental health and well-being | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.163 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Maintain efforts to promote and protect the rights of children and adolescents, including in relation to birth registration, the eradication of child exploitation and the reduction of infant and maternal mortality | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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122.154 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Include in the 2006 Prevention of Domestic Violence Act the definition of sexual harassment and marital rape, and guarantee the implementation of effective strategies for applying the Act | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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122.146 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Extend beyond 2020 the implementation of the Gender Equality Act Implementation and Monitoring Plan in order to promote equal opportunities and the empowerment of women in all spheres of society | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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122.145 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Apply effectively the Gender Equality Act and adopt effective and sustainable legislative measures to explicitly prohibit discrimination and violence against women and girls | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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122.142 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Establish programmes, in the four regions of Malawi, that increase the skills and income of women in order to reduce gender inequality, discrimination and poverty, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and international law | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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122.119 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Continue to consolidate its social policies in order to increase the quality of life of its people, especially the most vulnerable, with the assistance and cooperation that the country requires | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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122.78 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Take concrete measures to enforce existing legal provisions in order to prevent all forms of attacks, ritual killings, violence, discrimination and stigma against persons with albinism; provide training to public officials, and ensure that all offences are investigated and victims and their families provided with psychosocial, medical and legal assistance | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.76 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Prevent and punish murders, mutilations, infanticide, kidnapping and other attacks directed at boys and girls with albinism through awareness campaigns against harmful beliefs in witchcraft, and fight against the discrimination and social exclusion suffered by these children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.69 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Prevent killings, mutilations, kidnapping and other attacks against persons with albinism, particularly women and children, ensuring prompt and thorough investigation of all offences and providing all necessary assistance to the victims | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.67 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Strengthen the protection of people with albinism as well as training for the police | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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122.64 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Redouble efforts to implement legal provisions prohibiting harmful practices (such as child or forced marriage, female genital mutilation, “widow cleansing” and ceremonies that lead to abuse), ensuring prompt and thorough investigation of all offences and providing all necessary assistance to the victims | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.33 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Ensure that the national Human Rights Commission enjoys full independence, in accordance with the Paris Principles, and has sufficient resources for its operation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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122.15 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Adopt measures to effectively prevent the practice of female genital mutilation | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Formalize a de jure moratorium on death penalty and replace it with alternative sentences which respect international human rights standards | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Declare a de jure moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its final abolition, and in this context take steps to become Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Move towards the abolition of the death penalty | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Abolish the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Combat, in law and in practice, discrimination based on sexual orientation | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 22 - May 2015 | Eliminate existing norms against homosexuality, in particular articles 137, 153, and 156 of the Penal Code | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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