Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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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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139.242 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue ensuring that unaccompanied migrant children entering South Africa are kept in child and youth care centres and treated as children in need of care and protection | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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139.241 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Amend legislation and regulations in order to ensure universal birth registration for children born in its territory | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.24 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure birth registration of all children born on South African territory, regardless of the immigration status or nationality of the parents | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.239 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Review its relevant legislation and regulations on birth registration to ensure their full conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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139.238 | 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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139.237 | 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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139.236 | 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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139.235 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Ensure registration of all children at birth as well as delayed registration of children who have not been registered at birth | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.234 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Expedite the adoption of legislation to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in the home, including “reasonable chastisement“, and ensure that those who perpetrate corporal punishment are held accountable | 4 - General action | Noted |
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139.233 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Adopt legislation to prohibit all forms of corporal punishment in the private sphere | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.232 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Make additional efforts to combat child labour and guarantee children the enjoyment of the rights that are guaranteed to them in accordance with international standards | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.231 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Amend the Children’s Act with the aim of prohibiting virginity tests on children, irrespective of their age | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.23 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Steps up its efforts to prevent harmful practices carried out on children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.229 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Continue efforts to combat sexual violence against children | 2 - Continuing 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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139.227 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Take all necessary measures to end sexual and gender-based violence, especially by developing adequate gender-sensitive training programmes for law enforcement agencies, the national prosecuting authority and judicial officers and by adopting specific legislation addressing the practice of ukuthwala (child marriage) | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.226 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Revise the Children’s Act in order to set the minimum age for marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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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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139.224 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Harmonize the South African legislation to ensure that the minimum age for marriage is established at 18 years for both boys and girls | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.223 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Increase the age of marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls and harmonize legislation to this effect | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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139.222 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child through the harmonization of its national laws to ensure that the minimum age for marriage is established at 18 years for both girls and boys and remove barriers to birth registration | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.221 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Harmonize legislation in order to ensure that the minimum age of marriage is increased to 18 years for boys and girls, without exception | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.22 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Allocate sufficient resources to implement its youth policy to ensure meaningful use of youth delegates participating in international forums, and inclusion of youth in rural areas and strengthen political impartiality and independence of youth representation | 4 - General action | Noted |
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139.219 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Reinforce its efforts to ensure the thorough investigation and prosecution of crimes of gender-based and domestic violence and guarantee access to justice for victims | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.218 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Deploy the necessary efforts to improve the functioning of the courts dealing with sexual crimes in the country, while intensifying public awareness-raising campaigns aimed at reducing the underutilization of these courts | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.217 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Increase efforts to guarantee women’s access to justice, protection and other remedies and put in place stronger mechanisms to protect women and girls from gender-based violence and provide redress to victims | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.216 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Carry out a national outreach campaign for the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence which includes information on the rights of victims | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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139.215 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Undertake continued and enhanced efforts to protect and provide redress to women suffering from violence and to continue raising awareness, through training and other means, in the judicial system, including to the police, of the necessity to act against all cases of sexual and gender-based violence, including on the grounds of real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression | 4 - General action | Supported |
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139.214 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 27 - May 2017 | Develop comprehensive policies and programmes on gender-based violence, including training of security forces, prosecutors and judges in order to properly deal with those cases | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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