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) | 1 - April 2008 | Enact legislation which would, in line with article 1 of the Convention against Torture, prevent and eliminate torture and combat impunity. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | While commending South African authorities for the policies adopted in the field of public health and the measures taken to fight HIV-AIDS, recommended to South Africa to increase its measures to eliminate the discriminatory barriers to access health services for people living with HIV-AIDS. | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Establish mechanisms that will offer the victims of rape appropriate and adequate support and provide them with redress | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Continue to take measures in order to reduce the rate of mortality due to HIV and AIDS | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Establish policies and programmes designed to promote the integration of migrants into society and the respect to their rights, including the protection of their physical integrity | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Ensure that all children are issued with a birth certificate in order to access various social services, with particular focus on children of migrants | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.7.5 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.15 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.212 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Revive efforts to develop a national strategic plan on gender-based violence and ensure appropriate resources for its implementation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.225 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure in national legislation that the minimum age for marriage is 18 years for both girls and boys and take all necessary measures to prevent and eliminate child sex tourism and exploitation of child labour | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Finalise the ratification process of the ICESCR | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Ratify the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Continue its efforts to attain the five major national priorities in the areas of public health, education, job creation, the fight against corruption and crime, and ensuring food security | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Consider an early ratification of the third OP to CRC (OPIC) on a communication procedure | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Accede to the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the ICC | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Adopt and implement appropriate, efficient measures ensuring that all allegations of sexual violence against women are properly registered, prosecuted and their perpetrators duly convicted, including a provision of victims' access to redress and social support services | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Take measures improving the security of citizens and enhancing protection of particularly vulnerable groups such as women and children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Enact legislation which would, in line with Article 1 of the Convention against Torture (CAT), prevent and eliminate torture, and ratify OP-CAT at the earliest opportunity | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 13 - May 2012 | Conduct comprehensive public awareness campaigns and enhance the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes perpetrated on grounds of ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.17 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Take all necessary measures to ensure that all reports of ill-treatment and torture in prisons and centres of detention are adequately investigated and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.29 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Uphold its commitment to and obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | 4 - General action | Noted |
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139.88 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue to improve socioeconomic development strategies and plans in order to avoid xenophobia and other forms of intolerance towards foreigners in South Africa | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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139.183 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Take concrete measures to ensure the right to education for all, focusing on decreasing the level of dropouts and on improving the quality of education | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.15 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue its efforts aimed at eliminating poverty and reducing inequality | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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139.195 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Step up its fight against gender-based discrimination and violence, uproot its social acceptability and increase efforts for the protection of its victims and redress for violations of their rights, as well as efforts on accountability of perpetrators | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.228 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Develop specific measures to educate society and enforce existing legislation addressing the practice of ukuthwala and other customary practices leading to forced and child marriages | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.236 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Further engage in facilitating administrative procedures for birth registration, especially for disadvantaged children coming from rural and poor areas | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.237 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.243 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Refrain from depriving citizenship through the blocking of identity documents and establish a dedicated procedure to identify stateless persons | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 1 - April 2008 | Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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