Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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146.17 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Strengthen its mechanisms for ensuring that the compatibility of citizen’s initiative with the obligations arising from international human rights instruments to which Switzerland is a party is subject to some form of check before such initiatives are put to the vote | 4 - General action | Supported |
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146.33 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take additional measures to combat stigmatization and stereotyping, including through awareness-raising initiatives and to respond to instances of racist remarks or acts by high-level public officials | 4 - General action | Supported |
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146.45 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Provide training to security forces, prosecutors, judges and social workers to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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146.97 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take further steps to reduce the gender wage gap | 4 - General action | Supported |
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147.25 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Establish legislative and institutional guarantees to ensure that the popular initiatives are compatible with the obligations under international human rights law | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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147.32 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Promote awareness-raising campaigns on preventing discrimination and bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity to the broader public, and in particular to students and teachers | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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147.39 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Intensify its oversight over Swiss companies operating abroad with regard to any negative impact of their activities on the enjoyment of human rights, particularly in conflict areas, which includes situations of foreign occupation where the risk of human rights abuses is heightened | 4 - General action | Supported |
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147.55 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Strengthen its efforts aimed at enhancing women’s representation in politics and the economy | 4 - General action | Noted |
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146.47 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Redouble efforts in all the cantons to avoid discrimination based on race, origin and sexual orientation and gender identity | 4 - General action | Supported |
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147.33 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Introduce specific legislation prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity or intersex status | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Switzerland is prepared to consider acceding to the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Switzerland makes a voluntary commitment to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Switzerland is considering the possibility of establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles. | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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148.63 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Decriminalize irregular migration | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.62 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Strengthen and implement the effective protection and full integration into society, of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and minorities, including the commitments of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.61 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Adopt legislation which explicitly prohibits corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in the home | 4 - General action | Noted |
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148.60 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Further strengthen efforts to eliminate the gender wage gap through temporary special measures | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.59 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Prohibit assisted suicide to protect the human rights of the elderly, sick, disabled and other vulnerable members of society in line with their commitment to the right to life, health and non-discrimination | 4 - General action | Noted |
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148.58 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Protect and support the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society and in doing so maintain the definition of marriage as the right of men and women of marriageable age to marry and to found a family, in keeping with article 23 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.57 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an internationally acceptable level | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.56 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Although Switzerland raised the minimum age of criminal responsibility of children from 7 to 10 years of age, it is recommended that it continue with efforts to bring the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an acceptable level according to international standards | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.55 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take measures to reduce prison overcrowding in the country, particularly in the Champ-Dollon prison, and ensure that no one is detained preventively beyond 48 hours | 4 - General action | Noted |
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148.53 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Incorporate in the criminal code and the military criminal code clear provisions that prohibit all forms of torture | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.54 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Extend free legal advice and aid to persons appealing their convictions | 4 - General action | Noted |
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148.51 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Typify torture as a specific crime, with all the elements of the definition of article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, take measures to prevent police brutality, particularly against migrants, asylum seekers and foreigners, and adopt an effective and independent mechanism to address such complaints | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.49 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Put an end to the policy of imposing unilateral coercive measures against other countries and take initiatives to eliminate those unilateral punitive measures that violate human rights in targeted countries and constitute a breach of the terms of article 1 (2) of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as this is a national decision whose consequences go beyond Swiss borders | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.48 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Enact legislation and adopt measures to ensure that businesses and their branches operating in Switzerland are accountable for any violations of human rights or damage to the environment around the world | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.46 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Monitor the activities of overseas Swiss companies | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.44 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Adopt a policy and an action plan at the federal level to combat discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, and in particular include them in national surveys on suicides | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.43 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take appropriate measures to introduce a law on equality of treatment taking particularly into account the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex minorities, persons with disabilities, women and other vulnerable groups | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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