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 | Implement fully the new law on femicide and ensure that the physical security of women is protected by implementing CEDAW recommendations. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the Convention on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Increase coordination between the police and the Office of the Attorney General in investigation of violence against human rights defenders and develop a national policy for the protection of human rights defenders. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Accept article 14 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Enact specific legislation to provide appropriate remedies for victims of racial discrimination, in particular, relating to the dissemination of ideas based on notions of racial superiority, racial hatred, incitement to racial discrimination and violent acts targeting indigenous peoples and People of African Descent in Guatemala | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Commit to improving the situation of indigenous children, in particular as concerns ill-treatment, trafficking, child labour, illegal adoptions and difficulty in accessing schools and health-care services. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Develop a draft law guaranteeing the protection of human rights defenders. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Develop a law criminalizing discrimination based on social origin, racial hatred and acts of violence against indigenous people. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Abolish the death penalty. | 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 the effective implementation of the International Commission against Impunity's mandate on the ground as necessary to remove any obstacles for serious international investigations and pay particular attention to the effective implementation of victims' assistance and protection programmes in the fight against impunity. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Establish an environment where a judge can make a fair and appropriate decision without intimidation. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take measures to ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights by members of indigenous communities. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Promote the approval of the national policy and action plan for human rights | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that new human rights units are part of an integral plan for the justice and security sector. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Reform the law on radio communication in order to guarantee the proper and free functioning of local radios. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take steps to ensure a reduction in the attacks on human rights defenders and to bring the perpetrators of such attacks to justice. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Ensure that a gender perspective is fully integrated in the next stages of the review, including the outcome of the UPR process. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Follow up the CEDAW recommendation to Guatemala to ensure that indigenous women have full access to bilingual education, health services and credit facilities and to fully participate in decision making processes. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Follow up the CERD and other human rights bodies and mechanisms' relevant recommendations towards enhancing de jure and de facto equal protection of indigenous peoples, including the Maya, Xinca and Garifuna peoples. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Put an end to impunity for reported attacks against members of marginalized communities, including on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as to put in operation awareness-raising efforts in that respect, targeted particularly at law enforcement officials and the judiciary. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Accelerate the poverty alleviation programmes with a view to addressing the uneven distribution of wealth, access to health and the high level of social exclusion of indigenous peoples and People of African Descent. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Provide better police protection to judges, investigators and witnesses. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Recommended full commitment of the national human rights commission to the improvement of indigenous rights. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Reduce illiteracy rates, in particular among women. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take all the necessary measures to fight against femicide and the lynching and killings of persons based on their sexual orientation. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Adopt effective measures to strengthen and guarantee the independence of the Unit for the protection of human rights defenders within the Presidential Commission for Human Rights, and to protect human rights defenders from any further violence. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Take additional steps to combat the impunity which has contributed to the rise in femicide and the attacks on human rights defenders. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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