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 | Consider developing a strategy that ensures that the experiences of community practitioners are taken into account in the development of its national strategies to improve health standards in maternal neo-natal and child health. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Advise potential donor agencies of the type of technical assistance that would help to meet its treaty body reporting obligations. | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify CEDAW. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take further steps to improve the effectiveness of measures to combat the recruitment of child soldiers | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that human rights defenders, including victims of human rights violations, witnesses, prosecutors, forensic experts, journalists and trade union workers, can carry out their human rights work freely and without fear of intimidation. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Continue with appropriate measures to eradicate discrimination and violence against women. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Adjust its national laws to the international obligations undertaken. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Recommended implementing the commitments and obligations of the ICESCR. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Enable those representatives of special procedures who already requested visits, to conduct them. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that reports of killings, threats, attacks and acts of intimidation against human rights defenders are thoroughly and promptly investigated and those responsible brought to justice. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure effective and independent investigations into all reports of torture and extrajudicial executions by members of the security forces. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | This is not to say that Government believes that there is no room for further improvement in the development of economic, social and cultural rights in Tonga. Rather that the Government has taken and will continue to take a range of measures by the adoption of policies and where capacity allows the change of laws that advance the economic, social and cultural well being of the people of Tonga. Further discussion on economic, social and cultural rights and the extent to which they ought to be justiciable is likely to arise in the course of the public consultation on a possible Bill of Rights and Responsibilities either separated from or incorporated into new Constitutional arrangements | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | The Tongan Government believes that social, economic and cultural rights are important. It is fully committed to a vigorous development of Tonga's economic, social and cultural goals. It has consistently pursued a progressive agenda on social, economic and cultural policy and can point to the practical strategies of SDP8 and increased funding for education and healthcare as evidence of its commitment | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Free comprehensive health care for life and free education for the nation's children up to 14 years of age (a far-sighted policy dating back to 1875) points to a progressive domestic realisation of the rights set out in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) even though the Kingdom has not ratified this treaty. The development of these policies was accompanied by clear and attainable targets that have been monitored and evaluated on the way forward | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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