Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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121.12 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Ratify the Convention against Torture, signed by Brunei Darussalam in 2015, and make declarations in accordance with articles 21 and 22 of the Convention | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.36 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Repeal the new punitive measures of the sharia Penal Code Order 2013, and ensure that the implementation of the law will not infringe on human rights and will be fully consistent with the international and regional human rights commitments and obligations undertaken by Brunei Darussalam | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.19 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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121.24 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Ratify the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers, 2011 (189) | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.39 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Eliminate all norms, including in the Penal Code, which provide for, inter alia, capital punishment, stoning, maiming and flogging as sanctions for certain offences or conduct | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.28 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Lift its reservations to article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.41 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Decriminalize consensual same-sex conduct and repeal provisions in the Syariah Penal Code Order that are not compliant with international human rights norms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.30 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Withdraw its general reservation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and eliminate all discriminatory legal provisions against women, including those relating to marriage and divorce, property, inheritance and transmission of nationality to their children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.53 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Guarantee the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association by, inter alia, repealing the Sedition Act | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.54 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Repeal the emergency powers and the Sedition Act, and protect the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.55 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Reform laws and policies limiting freedoms of expression and association, such as the Sedition Act | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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121.31 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Consider the extension of a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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121.59 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 33 - May 2019 | Revoke immediately the new legislation dated 3 April 2019 that imposes the use of death penalty for homosexuality and adultery and introduces other cruel and inhuman punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Encourage it to sign and ratify ICERD and OP-CRC-AC | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Ensure that the procedures governing registration of civil society organizations are transparent, non-discriminatory, expeditious and inexpensive and that they allow for the possibility of appeal, avoid requiring re-registration and are in conformity with international human rights standards | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Establish a national human rights institution, in accordance with the Paris Principles, to provide additional protection for the human rights of its citizens | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Give an opportunity to newspapers whose permits have been rejected to appeal the decision to a third party | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Lift its reservations to articles 9 and 29 of CEDAW and its reservation to CRC | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Repeal or amend the Internal Security Act so as to abolish all forms of administrative detention | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Repeal or amend the Sedition Act and the Newspaper Act 1958 to ensure that they conform with international human rights standards, including by guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Remove its reservations to CRC and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Seek to better enforce statutes protecting immigrant workers from exploitation and mistreatment | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Sign and ratify the main ILO conventions, and the main international human rights instruments, particularly ICCPR, ICESCR, CAT and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance CED | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Sign the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 6 - December 2009 | Take early action to become a party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ICESCR and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICCPR | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Continue its efforts to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 19 - May 2014 | Step up efforts towards respecting the principle of interdependence of human rights, as laid down in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, by promoting and protecting economic and social rights on an equal footing with those of a civil and political nature. This may be achieved by ratifying international instruments on civil and political rights and by strengthening national legislation relating to the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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