Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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149.56 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Adopt legislation criminalizing all forms of violence against women and girls, including marital rape | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.55 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Take further steps to fight all forms of violence and discrimination, in particular against women, children, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons | 4 - General action | Noted |
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149.53 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | End impunity by conducting thorough investigations and criminal prosecutions of human rights violations and abuses against human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.52 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Strengthen measures to prevent, investigate, and hold security forces accountable for human rights violations and abuses, including providing an update on investigations into the alleged disappearances of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem and Amaan Azmi | 4 - General action | Noted |
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149.51 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ensure that all refugee and stateless women and girls have effective access to justice without being threatened with arrest, by amending the 1946 Foreigners Act | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.50 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Repeal all laws and policies that restrict the activities and rights of its citizens and civil society organizations, including the Information and Communication Technology Act of 2006 and the Foreign Donations Regulation Act of 2016 | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.49 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Repeal the Information and Communication Technology Act (2006), as amended in 2013, or modify the Information and Communication Technology Act to bring it in line with international law and standards | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.48 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ensure that human rights activists and journalists can exercise their rights without fear, intimidation and harassment by redrafting the planned Digital Security Act, and repealing or amending all laws that violate the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including the provisions of the Penal Code related to defamation and sedition, the Information and Communication Technology Act (in particular section 57), and the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act, in line with international human rights law | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.46 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Revise media laws, in consultation with civil society, to decriminalize “defamation” and “hurting religious sentiment”, and limit proposed extended jail terms for these offences | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.42.2 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | / Take steps towards the full abolition of the death penalty | 4 - General action | Noted |
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149.42.1 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty, as a first step towards complete abolition of this practice | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.41 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Establish a moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.40 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Introduce a moratorium as a first step towards final abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.38 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Reduce the number of crimes to which the death penalty applies, as a step towards eventual abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.36.2 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Abolition of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.35 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Criminalize marital rape in all circumstances, and provide for the protection and psychological, mental and physical rehabilitation of victims | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.34 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Review the special provision of the Child Marriage Restrain Act 2017 and implement legislation that effectively criminalizes all forms of gender- based violence | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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149.33 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ensure that threats and violence against human rights defenders, and in particular women defenders and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex defenders, because of their work or perceived or actual gender identity, are effectively prosecuted and do not go unpunished | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.27 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Establish effective protection against discrimination, harassment and violence against sexual minorities | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.26 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Take effective steps to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in human rights legislation, recognizing the many dangers and challenges faced by the community, including the hijra | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.24 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Adopt, without delay, new non-discrimination legislation with a view to promoting gender equality, and, without discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religion or any other status, criminalize all forms of violence against women and girls, including marital rape, irrespective of the age of the victim, domestic violence and all forms of sexual abuse and harassment, ensuring also security and justice to the victims | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.17 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, of 1951, and ensure the short- and long-term conditions for the dignified, safe and voluntary return of displaced persons to their place of origin | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.16 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Become a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, of 1951 | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.13 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ratify the ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974 (No. 139) for the elimination of child labour | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.8 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.6 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance without reservations before the next universal periodic review | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.4.4 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | 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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149.4.2 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | 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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149.2 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Accede to the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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149.1 | Jul 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 30 - May 2018 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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