123.1
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the adoption of measures required for the protection of human rights defenders in Colombia
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
123.2
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace between the National Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Transitional justice
123.3
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the peace negotiation process with the National Liberation Army
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Transitional justice
123.4
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Initiate the second phase of the National Plan on Business and Human Rights
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Business and human rights
123.5
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the promotion of a culture on human rights, as an indispensable base for a real reconciliation.
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- General
- Transitional justice
136.1
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate and meet its obligations in the area of human rights with the United Nations agencies, mechanisms and committees in order to facilitate their activities and the implementation of their programmes
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Treaty Bodies
- UPR process
136.2
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make comprehensive efforts at the national level to protect the rights of workers by taking the necessary institutional and legislative steps
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Labour rights
136.3
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those that have a bearing on human rights
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Right to development
136.4
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the level of political awareness and disseminate a culture of political participation
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
136.5
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop the operational mechanisms of human rights commissions and agencies in accordance with the best international standards
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Other
136.6
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fulfil its obligations arising from accession to the Convention against Torture, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
136.7
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact the bill concerning persons with disabilities and the information bill.
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Disability rights
144.1
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada voluntarily commits to strengthening intergovernmental collaboration and public dialogue on human rights, through the development of a protocol for following up on the recommendations Canada receives from international human rights bodies and a stakeholder engagement strategy
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- UPR process
144.2
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada also commits to enhancing our federal-provincial-territorial collaboration on human rights implementation through the creation of a senior intergovernmental mechanism
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- UPR process
144.3
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada also commits to holding future federal-provincial-territorial human rights ministerial meetings.
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- General
145.1
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To conduct human rights analyses to support the implementation of our international human rights obligations
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- General
- International instruments
145.2
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To improve the promotion and public awareness of international human rights in Canada
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- General
- Human rights education and training
145.3
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To initiate a transparent process for ongoing consideration by federal, provincial and territorial governments of adherence to human rights treaties that Canada is not yet a party to
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
145.4
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue to take legislative and other steps to progressively realize the right to adequate housing as part of an adequate standard of living for its citizens
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Right to housing
145.5
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To end, by March 2021, all long-term drinking water advisories affecting public systems on reserve
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Right to water and sanitation
145.6
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To co-developing distinctions-based Indigenous housing strategies with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners to ensure that future housing reform is reflective of their specific needs
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Right to housing
145.7
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continuing to improve services delivered to Indigenous Peoples — such as education, clean water, housing, and health services. We aim to achieve this through: the full implementation of Jordan’s Principle to ensure that First Nations children receive the same health and social services and supports as other Canadian children; the full implementation of all the orders of the Canadian Human Rights and the co-development transformation of the delivery of Indigenous child welfare.
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Right to water and sanitation
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Argentina commits itself to put into practice the mechanism contained in the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture and to continue the implementation of the National Plan to Combat Discrimination in all its aspects, and also to promote the second stage of the National Plan of Human Rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain affirms its willingness to cooperate with the Committee against Torture on the implementation of article 20 of the Convention.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain affirms that it will include information in its future reports on the outcome of the universal periodic review and its impact on the human rights situation on the ground.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Argentina will promote the adoption by the Human Rights Council of a declaration on the right to truth and memory.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With the intention of strengthening the efficiency of the cooperation with the United Nations system and with the view of improving its national policies, Brazil reinforced its commitment to create new tools for the internal monitoring of human rights. This would include a national system of human rights indicators and the elaboration of annual reports on the situation of human rights, taking into account, among other aspects, a follow-up of the UPR exercise.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It will liaise with the President of the Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the possible organization of visits that might prove useful for the purposes of discussions and consultations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Law enforcement agencies will increase the number of training courses and workshops that they run on the protection and promotion of human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Submission of a report, during the next review, on the fulfilment of existing voluntary pledges.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Compliance with international obligations, design and implementation of a follow-up system of international commitments
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination pointed out that Bahraini law provides no definition of racial discrimination that includes the criteria set out in article 1 of the Convention. The Committee also asked for additional information on housing. The Kingdom of Bahrain will duly include in its next report to the Committee additional information on the follow-up to the Committee's concluding observations and recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Right to housing
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Human rights training for public civil servants, generating continuous training processes for public officials and officials in the area of justice
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the area of application, dissemination and promotion of human rights: domestically, this includes strengthening the response and follow-up to the international commitments taken on by Ecuador, implementation of the evaluation process of the national plan of action, promoting the work of the National Commission for the Application of International Humanitarian Law and, the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the area of women's rights, promotion of democratic governance with equal opportunities for men and women, promoting a life free of violence, through the adoption of measures to prevent, eradicate, criminalize and punish violence against women, implementation of public policies and cross-cutting programmes, and the promotion of legislation to eliminate violence against women and children, development of laws and public policies to prevent and eradicate abuse, harassment and sexual exploitation of women and children, promotion of a gender perspective in the education system and in the implementation of social policies in the formal and non-formal education system, eradication of illiteracy, training of public and judicial officials, and in the criminal process of cases of domestic violence and sexual crimes against women and children
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland will ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of death penalty
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Penitentiary rehabilitation: designing a model for social insertion and a model for an infrastructure compliant with human rights standards, building of seven new penitentiary centres based on the model of social insertion
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Preventing and combating the crime of trafficking in persons, effective implementation of a national plan of action to combat the crime of trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Additional measures to level educational opportunities will be introduced. Poland will spare no effort to enable preschool-age children to enjoy their rights, among others through the creation of amenable conditions for developing various forms of preschool education, particularly in rural areas. The planned strategy for the development of education in rural areas for 2007-2013 will be attuned to the Government Programme for the development of education in rural areas in the years 2008-2013. The strategic aim of the programme is to upgrade the quality and level of education in rural areas. Implementation of the measures facilitating access for children from rural areas and small towns to quality education will continue until 2013
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Approval of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland is also committed to continuing actions to reduce poverty and social exclusion, which will remain a priority in our national social policy. Poland indicated that a new national programme on social security and social integration for 2008-2010, now under preparation, will strengthen assistance to families for the purpose of counteracting poverty and social exclusion of children. These actions are meant to equalize the opportunities of families and children, i.e. to eliminate educational deficits and improve access to services that will enable parents to reconcile their professional activities with the upbringing of children. In addition, the national programme will determine specific goals, including, in particular, lowering the poverty index and the index of poverty risk among children to achieve that the following actions will be undertaken by Poland: 1/ Improvement of family incomes 2/ Development of the child day-care service system 3/ Levelling educational opportunities of and support for school-age children from poor Families 4/ Consolidating the system of assistance to families, family counselling, improvement of income support 5/ The development of cooperation with non-governmental organizations will also contribute to the effective combating of poverty and social exclusion
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Poverty
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratification of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, which reflects the clear vision of Tunisia and its sustained efforts to further promote women's status and to safeguard and consolidate their rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland will continue to combat and counteract racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and hate crimes. Although these phenomena are not common in Poland, the Government is nevertheless determined to implement a wide catalogue of preventive measures of an institutional, legal and educational nature. Poland will continue implementing and evaluating its Programme for the Roma community, the National Programme against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 2004-2009, and the law enforcement officer programme for combating hate crimes. Moreover, the existing network of Human Rights Advisers attached to the Police Commander-in-Chief and Voivodship Police Commanders-in-Chief will conduct ongoing monitoring of incidents, trends and crimes related to discrimination and misconduct of law enforcement authorities. They will also make analyses and elaborate proposals on the improvement of the quality and methods of the work of the law enforcement. It is also planned to create the institution of Human Rights Advisers attached to the Border Guard
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sri Lanka will also work with Member States and relevant United Nations bodies to assist the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to formulate proposals for treaty body reforms, with a view to making the treaty body system more effective and in line with present-day requirements of Member States.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sri Lanka, manifesting its commitment to promote people-oriented development, will work towards the alleviation of poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 through continued investment in social infrastructure, education, and health services in line with the vision of the Government of Sri Lanka for social and economic development.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Effectively preventing displacement. (2) Making rights-enjoyment indicators consistent. (3) Consolidating the income-generation, re-housing and return programmes and the time forcibly displaced persons have access to them. (4) Reinforcing the differentiated approach. (5) Applying reparation policy to the displaced population.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada accepts in part recommendation 45 [Integrate economic social and cultural rights in its poverty reduction strategies in a way that can benefit the most vulnerable groups in society, specially the Aborigines, afro-Canadians, migrants, persons with disabilities, youth, women with low incomes, and single mothers and adopt all necessary measures, including the full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to guarantee Aboriginals the full enjoyment of their rights including economic, social and cultural so that their standard of living was similar to that of the rest of the citizens in Canada] and commits to giving appropriate attention to vulnerable groups in policy development. The Government of Canada also commits to giving greater prominence to the Market Basket Measure as one of the tools used to measure low income.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada acknowledges that there are challenges and the Government of Canada commits to continuing to explore ways to enhance efforts to address poverty and housing issues, in collaboration with provinces and territories.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to housing
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada commits to consider the future recommendations of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada commits to considering options for enhancing existing mechanisms and procedures related to the implementation of international human rights obligations. Canada welcomes the views of civil society and Aboriginal organizations in identifying practical means to fulfil this commitment.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada commits to enhancing information sharing with Canadians about its international human rights treaty-adherence process and the status of the review of treaties under consideration for possible signature/ratification.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada commits to identifying the causes of violence against Aboriginal women and developing appropriate responses in consultation with Aboriginal and civil society organizations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Indigenous peoples
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada commits to working on identifying gaps in available data in order to better assess and report on its international human rights obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada remained committed to working to strengthen this dynamic new mechanism as it developed and to improving the protection of human rights for all people across Canada.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada remains strongly committed to the rights of indigenous peoples. The rights of Aboriginal people in Canada are protected by the Canadian Constitution and other domestic laws, and Canada is committed to making progress on issues of particular concern to Aboriginal people in Canada.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Canada is committed to legislation to end a clear inequality, often adversely affecting Aboriginal women and children, to ensure that, in the event of a marriage or common law relationship break down, Aboriginal people on reserve are afforded the same rights and protections that all other Canadians currently enjoy.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Regarding counter-terrorism, Canada is committed to preventing and combating terrorism in a manner that fulfills its international obligations, including its human rights obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Canada commits to enhancing mechanisms to promote awareness and understanding of international obligations within the federal public service.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The MSAR [Macao Special Administrative Region] Government commits to improve social rights. Cooperation with the civil society and NGOs will be enhanced.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The MSAR [Macao Special Administrative Region] Government is committed to fully protect personal freedom and human dignity, inter alia, by reinforcing preventive measures and suppressing the trafficking of human beings and the exploitation of women and children and protecting victims' rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In line with the commitment to a government more accountable to the citizens, the MSAR Government shall strengthen its accountability system for bureau directors, department heads and division chiefs in systemic and disciplinary terms.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The MSAR [Macao Special Administrative Region] Government pledges to increase its fight against corruption. To this end, the scope and powers of the CAC shall be broadened and reinforced. The CAC's jurisdiction will be extended to the private sector, in order for the MSAR Government and the community to play a bigger part in building a probity culture. Anti-corruption mechanisms for administration and financial management systems related to public resources shall be put in place. Additional efforts shall be undertaken, together with the civil society and NGOs, to further promote a corruption-free society and to maximize the effectiveness of publicity campaigns to build a clean society.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Corruption
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The MSAR [Macao Special Administrative Region] Government commits to extend compulsory education until the end of secondary school.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The MSAR [Macao Special Administrative Region] Government shall strive to maintain a proper balance between the enjoyment of civil and political rights and social, economic and cultural rights, particular consideration being given to the rights of vulnerable groups, such as the disabled, the elderly, the children, the women and persons under custody.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cuba reiterated its commitment to cooperate with United Nations human rights machinery, especially the Council and its universal periodic review, and to continue working towards the promotion and protection of human rights through international cooperation and respectful dialogue.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Federal Government is actively committed to the real achievement of equal rights for men and women and the removal of existing discrepancies.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Germany has committed to achieving an ODA ratio of 0.51 per cent by 2010 and 0.7 per cent by 2015.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Germany is committed to the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Development of policies to create rural employment opportunities, launching of projects, and encouragement of capacity-building and higher levels of training for women in local communities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Vanuatu has committed itself to adhere to international human rights obligations, by ratifying four human rights conventions namely: CRC and its optional protocols, CEDAW and its optional protocol, CRPD, ICCPR.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Paying due attention to preventing and combating trafficking in women and children, strengthening education and information on the elimination of discrimination against the victims of trafficking and job and income generation for them, finding solution to the issues of child labour, street children and violence against children, close cooperation with other countries, especially in the region, on combating trafficking in women and children and transnational crime,
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Narrowing the gender gap in education and illiteracy
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to the international human rights treaties: Consideration of withdrawal of its reservations to Article 5 of the CRC Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, consideration of accession to a number of ILO Conventions and the Convention against Torture, ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Yemen is prepared to promote the principle of a broad partnership between the Government and civil society organizations in the area of human rights and to support their active involvement in the integrated development process
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Yemeni Government is studying a European Union initiative to establish an independent national human rights institution that complies with the Paris Principles, and has begun work on establishing a committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Human Rights and the Office of the Prime Minister to study the feasibility of establishing such an institution in the foreseeable future
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Public policies will be promoted to ensure equity and better all-round participation by members of particularly vulnerable groups, including older persons, disabled persons, minors, women and members of ethnic minorities such as Afro-descendants and indigenous people. This includes better political representation, access to posts in institutions and the prohibition of any form of discrimination in the workplace or elsewhere
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implementation of all recommendations of international committees concerning the promotion of human rights in practice
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The State also desires to establish permanent institutions that would ensure timely submission of human rights reports, both to international and regional human rights mechanisms.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Costa Rica will continue to adopt new international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, such as the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It will also follow up on the appropriate implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
At the national level, Portugal also renews its pledge to continue to improve its national machinery and mechanisms to monitor implementation of international obligations, Treaty bodies' recommendations, and the outcome of this review. The strengthening of civil society participation and NGO interaction in these processes will also be actively pursued.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- International instruments
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to conventions and protocols, the Government was committed to make every possible effort to complete the following steps in the next three months: (a) To ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (b) To accede to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, (c) To ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, (d) To ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, (e) To accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, (f) To ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol thereto.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government undertook the commitment to submit all reports due to the human rights mechanisms within the next 24 months
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue to implement the National Human Rights Action Plan
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To encourage the early adoption of the Law on Combating Corruption, Embezzlement and Illegal Enrichment,
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Corruption
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Lastly, the delegation confirmed that the Democratic Republic of the Congo was committed to pursuing its efforts in cooperation with the entire international community
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
El Salvador will subscribe to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and will recognize the competence of the Convention under its articles 21 and 22
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the reservations which the Republic of Iraq made when acceding to international human rights treaties
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to bring domestic human rights legislation into line with international human rights law
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To reform, in accordance with the Constitution, the institutions of the Judicial Organ.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To renew the mandate of OHCHR in Bolivia.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To submit all due reports to treaty monitoring bodies.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It renewed its commitment to improve human rights and praised the role of non-governmental organizations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Complete the procedures for ratifying the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize the text of a balanced counter-terrorism law.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider acceding to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, as well as the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide regular periodic reports to the United Nations treaty bodies and submit them in a timely fashion.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In addition, there are some regional human rights instruments of the Council of Europe, such as the Convention on Access to Official Documents, that Slovenia plans to ratify later this year.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a priority for this year
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A study will be conducted of a draft law on the welfare of persons with disabilities to guarantee these persons greater rights in respect of rehabilitation, training, employment, housing, health care, education, social welfare, etc. The State will do what it can to preserve the human dignity of these persons, integrate them into society and involve them in all areas of life as productive members of Kuwait society.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea takes this opportunity to reiterate its pledges to recognize, protect and promote human rights in order to better safeguard them within the country, and undertakes to continue to build on its frank and constructive dialogue at the international level, inter alia with the United Nations human rights bodies.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Efforts will be continued to find appropriate solutions for persons who are illegal residents and to grant Kuwaiti nationality to those entitled to it.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Steps will be taken to create a children's court to settle family disputes.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana is primarily committed to the implementation of the recently adopted Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. This statute has been carefully scrutinised and found to be in compliance with the Convention. Guyana will continue to actively consider ratifying the Convention.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana voluntarily commits to consider this [Ratify ILO Convention No. 169] and report in one year's time to the UNHRC and the ILO.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The State will establish a national body to deal with all human rights matters.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana made a commitment, before the UPR, that once evidence and witnesses are available all those responsible for the crime wave of 2002-2008 would be brought to justice, whether they were part of the violent criminal gangs or those in the "Phantom Squad".
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Within the framework of the pertinent mechanisms and instruments, Italy strongly reiterates its continued commitment to actively contribute to the eradication of any forms of racism, in particular against vulnerable groups. However, it should be recalled that together with other countries, Italy decided not to participate in the 2009 Durban Review Conference and therefore is not in a position to adopt or endorse its Outcome Document.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to Recommendations 70.36 to 70.41, which related to the abolition of corporal punishment, the delegation stated that public opinion in Guyana was not in favour of the abolition of corporal punishment. The delegation indicated that Guyana has noted these recommendations and was voluntarily committed to consult and report on the results of the consultative process. In this regard, the delegation pointed out that consultations in Guyana were on-going on a draft Education Bill which included discussion on the issue of corporal punishment. Furthermore, Guyana has tabled amendments to the Training School Act and the Juvenile Offenders Act to remove corporal punishment from juvenile detention centres, which demonstrated Guyana's commitment to protecting children from all forms of abuse. These bills will be debated in October 2010 in the National Assembly. The delegation also emphasized that the Protection of Children Act 2009, the Domestic Violence Act 1997 and the Child Care Protection Agency offered a legislative and administrative framework to protect children from abuse.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
San Marino is indeed committed to collaborating with the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies, although the shortage of human resources within the San Marino Administration will not allow to submit more than one report per year.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
San Marino undertakes the commitment to ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and, in conformity with Article 5 thereof, to amend the Criminal Code, by enacting the necessary legislation, with a view to introducing the crime of genocide and the other acts enumerated in Article 3.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Andorra has drafted an initial technical report on the possibility of adopting the provisions of the revised European Social Charter it had not previously accepted, taking into account the legislative changes that have occurred in Andorra since it ratified the Charter in 2004. Andorra can accept this recommendation and commits itself to ratifying new Charter provisions with a view to guaranteeing the rights of workers in accordance with the Charter.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Croatia expressed its commitment to make all recommendations more visible and to the comprehensive UPR exercise, although it can certainly be improved.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Croatia remains committed to continue to build effective and efficient asylum system, in particular through the strengthening of institutional framework, training of responsible officials as well as ameliorating conditions for the accommodation of asylum seekers awaiting the outcome of the process.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Jamaica recognizes that the voluntary goals elaborated in Human Rights Council Resolution 9/12 are in keeping with Jamaica's own human rights commitment and its obligations as a party to 7 of the 9 core international human rights instruments. In those instances where it is not a party, appropriate domestic legislation, grounded in the Constitution of Jamaica, is in place to effectively ensure the protection of the rights of each citizen. However, the Government will continue to review those instruments that it has not yet ratified.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Honduras announced that it would submit a mid-term report on the implementation of UPR recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Honduras recognized that the review was an opportunity for the strengthening of its national capacities and to guide it in addressing its immediate challenges, in particular with regard to its voluntary commitments, including the following: (a) Starting the process for the preparation and drafting of the national human rights plan of action with the participation of thematic working groups, organizations of civil society, interested groups and institutions with a mandate to promote and protect human rights, (b) Generating a debate in the National Congress and civil society with a view to harmonizing the regulatory framework of the Telecommunications Sector Law and ensuring that it is was line with the international human rights conventions and standards, in particular with regard to the levels of public, private and community broadcasting, (c) Promoting the reform of article 209-A of the Criminal Code, referring to the offence of torture, with a view to harmonizing it with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, (d) Promoting discussion of the draft law against trafficking in persons and sexual and commercial exploitation, which prohibited and punished all forms of such offences, in accordance with the relevant Protocol, (e) Increasing the efforts of the State to improve conditions for citizen security, considering as priority elements attention to victims of violence and crime, arms control, the professionalization and modernization of the national police and armed forces, and making accountable all authorities responsible for the implementation of the policy and strategy on citizen security.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It further committed itself to continue the dialogue with States and civil society, and acknowledged the importance of the UPR in the promotion and protection of human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It declared the Government's firm commitment to gender mainstreaming and indicated that a range of policy initiatives were being undertaken, including the formulation of a national policy for gender equality.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Jamaica recognises the aspirational goals of the Optional Protocol and is committed to providing the framework for the achievement of the economic, social and cultural rights embodied in the Covenant. However, Jamaica is not in a position to sign and ratify the Protocol at this time.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In this context, the key priorities are summarized in this report and there is maintained the commitment to lead efforts for accession and ratification of some key instruments that the country has not acceded, and to submit regular reports to the bodies of United Nations Treaty.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Solomon Islands further stated that it had recently sent an invitation to the OHCHR Regional Office for an in-country assessment for the purpose of establishing an office in Solomon Islands.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 11 - May 2011
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure bringing into force the Omani Law of the Child in pursuit of its national strategy on children and in line with its CRC obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia commits herself to promote peace and international cooperation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the integration of human rights education in the remaining grades in schools.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia remains committed to enhancing efforts towards the promotion and protection of human rights in order to improve the quality of life for the Namibian people.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Somalia reiterated its commitment to engaging proactively with civil society and encouraged civil society to continue to work with the Government to support the national agenda for change.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 11 - May 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia shall continue to build the Namibian society in a spirit of harmony and national reconciliation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Namibia shall continue to engage constructively in the deliberations of the Human Rights Council, its subsidiary bodies and mechanisms.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines wishes to inform that there are several organisations dealing with various aspects of human rights and related human issues operating within its territory and welcomes these recommendations but cannot accept them at the present time to create a national human rights institution in accordance to the Paris Principles. As a result, the Government commits to undertake consultation with stakeholders and with the support and assistance of the international community to create such an institution.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 11 - May 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The recommendations which we accept will enjoy our commitment in terms of implementation
- Recommending State
- Session
- 11 - May 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation informed that Estonia had been presenting its candidature to the Human Rights Council for 2012 - 2015 in order to actively contribute to the Council's work for the promotion of human rights. In this respect, Estonia planned to present its voluntary commitments and pledges which would set out its commitment to uphold and advance internationally the highest standards of human rights and contribute to the effective promotion and protection of human rights at the UN level.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reiterated Georgia's commitment to cooperate with the Council and pledged to submit a midterm report on the follow-up to the accepted recommendations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
is in the process of building a new prison that will enable a better separation of prisoners and improve prison conditions in the country in general. When the new prison will be ready in 2015, two prisons that have not met the highest standards will be closed. Iceland will in addition continue to examine ways to achieve the goal set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child to separate juvenile prisoners from adult
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
will examine whether to ratify the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education following a study of possible legal implications
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
will consider ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, after having completed a study of their legal implications
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
will consider ratification of the ICRMW after having completed a study of its legal implications
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A Criminal Justice (Withholding Information on Crimes against Children and Vulnerable Adults) Bill and a National Vetting Bureau Bill were presently being prepared and would be presented to Parliament as soon as possible and revised Children First guidelines would be placed on a statutory basis
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In regard to immigration and asylum matters generally, steps were being taken to reduce unacceptable delays in parts of the system. Legislation was before Parliament which would simplify procedures so that decisions on asylum, protection and immigration could be taken speedily and in a transparent manner
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legislation was being prepared to enable ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Mental capacity legislation for ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was progressing
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to conduct broad based consultations in the process of preparing human rights reports
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The reservation of Ireland to Article 19.2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, concerning the licensing of broadcasting enterprises, will be withdrawn
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Thailand will become a party to the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, ILO Conventions No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise and No. 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- International instruments
- Labour rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ireland has chosen to prepare and submit a voluntary interim report on Ireland's progress in implementing its commitments
- Recommending State
- Session
- 12 - October 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finland renewed its commitment, presented during the first universal periodic review of Finland, regarding the development assistance objective, as further elaborated in the national report for the second universal periodic review.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 13 - May 2012
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to development
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Argentina undertakes to promote initiatives in the Human Rights Council, among other forums, that seek to increase the protection afforded migrants and to spearhead discussions on the development and implementation of public policies on the subject
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
An effective public policy for persons with disabilities that relies more on legislation and measures aimed at giving persons with disabilities, particularly children, access to health care and education, providing help to families of children with disabilities, mainstreaming children with disabilities in ordinary schools, and raising public awareness of the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A public policy for widows and orphans
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A public policy that considers children to be important to development at all levels
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A public policy that covers and takes account of indigenous peoples (Pygmies) at the institutional level
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation also reiterated Benin's commitment to the UPR as well as its commitment to continue its cooperation with all the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with its permanent system to follow-up the recommendations, which were created by the Presidential Human Rights Commission, and includes the participation of the Civil Society and will permit to submit a mid-term report on the progress made to implement the received recommendations
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Civil society
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A policy based on unstinting efforts to raise awareness of human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prosecutions of cases involving allegations of child abuse and exploitation will be expedited through the modality of an inter-agency mechanism to identify deficiencies in the system, propose appropriate remedial measures and coordinate and monitor implementation of such measures
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
A policy to combat trafficking in persons, based on prevention, prosecution and the international legal framework. In this connection, alongside the awareness-raising activities, the Government is paying particular attention to compliance with court judgements in cases of trafficking, the protection of victims and witnesses during legal proceedings, and the strengthening of partnerships with countries in the subregion through the exchange of information and mutual legal assistance
- Recommending State
- Session
- 14 - October 2012
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
- Trafficking
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen the system of response to gender-based violence so as to help eradicate it
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the National Institute for Older Persons as a policymaking institution on ageing and old age
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote regulations to guarantee the rights of rural women, with an emphasis on care, access to comprehensive health care, quality education, justice, productive resources and employment opportunities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Evaluate the National Plan for Equal Rights and Opportunities between Men and Women with a view to the development and implementation of a national gender policy
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote affirmative action for the transgender, transvestite and transsexual population
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Collect data and indicators on violent acts against transsexual women
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a system for measuring indicators of progress on economic, social and cultural rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Organize a dialogue to evaluate the results of the implementation of the Access to Public Information Act (Act No. 18,381) and consider any legislative amendments that might be appropriate
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue the adoption of legislative and administrative measures to promote the social integration of children in conflict with the law, in particular the implementation of a crime policy that takes account of the best interests of the child, effective use of alternative measures to pretrial detention and the strengthening of a special juvenile jurisdiction
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Operationalize the Technological University
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to the issuing of a standing invitation to all Special Rapporteurs, the delegation clarified that Angola was committed to reinforcing its cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms. In the last few years, the Government had invited the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Also, two former United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights visited Angola. The Government intends to extend invitations to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In conclusion, the Islamic Republic of Iran wishes to reiterate its firm commitment to continue constructive cooperation with the United Nations human rights machineries, in particular with the Human Rights Council and the UPR mechanism.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With reference to international instruments, San Marino recognized the importance of treaties that contain individual complaint mechanisms and was committed to addressing reporting delays and to acceding to OP-ICESCR, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, and to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention against Discrimination in Education.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation reiterated Government's commitment to respect civil and political rights and to enable every Guinean citizen to enjoy them fully, in particular in view of the forthcoming elections. It added that it was important to consolidate and expand those rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Elections
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation expressed the Government's commitment to continue its work towards further improvement of national legislation and practice in human rights, taking into account international standards and commitments.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea is committed to undertaking ambitious and courageous reforms aimed at building a democratic society that respects human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government was committed to implementing the recommendations contained in the report of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to addressing issues for people with disabilities, for example by providing easy access through the Class Rehabilitation Program that includes ramp access for children with disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guinea acknowledges that there are serious difficulties in launching the national reconciliation process. However, consultations on how to proceed have begun nationwide. The Government is committed to pursuing its efforts to ensure that the process comes to a successful conclusion
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government was strongly committed to upholding and ensuring human rights for its people, the delegation took careful note of the comments made during the UPR session, and Kiribati would continue to work hard in meeting its human rights obligations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Creation of an effective mechanism to deal with cases of neglect by private sector institutions of workers' housing.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to housing
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Examination of the idea of creating a national action plan to implement the outcome of the universal periodic review
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Follow up on recommendations that the special procedures about Bahrain.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In keeping with domestic law and Bahrain's pledges under the international human rights treaties, the periodic review will be used as a further opportunity to promote the use of existing means of redress and explore any concrete measures that may be helpful in this regard.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain is determined to strengthen its capacities in order to ensure: Follow-up to the concluding observations of the human rights treaty bodies.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain is determined to strengthen its capacities in order to ensure: Timely submission of reports under these treaties [under the international human rights treaties which it has ratified and signed].
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain is fully committed to supporting non-governmental organizations through legal and other instruments so as to develop a constructive dialogue with these organizations and other stakeholders.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the pledges that it will make to the Human Rights Council during the 2008 elections, Bahrain will confirm its adoption of "good practices".
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain will examine the possibility of issuing an annual or a periodic national report on the human rights situation on the ground.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Kingdom of Morocco takes this opportunity to reiterate its pledges to ensure greater recognition and protection of human rights, thereby enhancing the promotion of human rights within the country, and undertakes to continue and intensify its frank and constructive dialogue at the international level, inter alia with the United Nations human rights bodies.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ongoing cooperation with OHCHR for the investigation, dissemination and respond to complaints put forward to special mechanisms and procedures with regard to alleged violations of human rights in the country, to present, co-sponsor and support according to the need, draft resolutions which condemn practices that are systematic violations of human rights in any part of the world, to maintain an open and ongoing invitation for cooperation with the special procedures and mechanisms, both from the United Nations system and the Inter-American system, so that they can come and see in situ what the human rights situation is in the country, to support the adoption of new instruments for protecting and promoting human rights internationally
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue to develop a gender-responsive approach to issues on women and children, including in the judicial system and on violence against women and children
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue to develop domestic legislation for further protection of the rights of the child
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland will strengthen measures to reduce domestic violence. It indicated that current solutions need to be adjusted in light of the insufficient social awareness of the threats domestic violence poses to individuals, families and society as a whole, as well as insufficient assistance to victims of violence. An annual evaluation of the implementation of the National Programme to Counter Domestic Violence for 2006-2016 will constitute the basis for its adjustment to actual needs. Eradication of violence from the family environment can first and foremost be achieved through the implementation of programmes promoting positive methods of childrearing and partnership in the family, some of which are carried out in collaboration with the European Union and the Council of Europe. In 2008 the law against domestic violence and the National Programme to Counter Domestic Violence will be amended, resulting in: 1/ A complete ban on corporal punishment, and financial support for the implementation of projects against domestic violence at municipal level within the framework of the National Programme to Counter Domestic Violence 2/ The introduction of a warrant obliging the perpetrator to leave the house immediately after an incident of violence is reported by the victimThe introduction of cost-free forensic medical examinations
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Measures will be introduced to streamline the implementation of the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee. The mandate of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Matters Concerning the European Court of Human Rights will be extended to integrate therewith decisions of the Human Rights Committee
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Voluntary commitments regarding the rights of children, young adolescents and adult senior citizens, development of a concerted agenda and policies for their protection, establishment of an institutional network to eradicate child labour, dissemination of the legal framework which contemplates young people as subjects of rights, through the development of an agenda for social protection and promotion of their rights, as a cross-cutting issue within all state programmes, dissemination of the rights of senior citizens based on the 2002 International Convention of Madrid and the Law on the Senior Adult
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation stated that Finland was committed to reaching the goal of 0.7 per cent ODA by 2015, as set by the United Nations, and 0.51 per cent ODA by 2010, as set by the European Union.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Receive special rapporteurs from the Human Rights Council as well as from the African Commission on Human Rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Tunisia has agreed in principle to allow Human Rights Watch to visit prisons. This is part of its cooperation with international human rights organizations, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), following an agreement signed in April 2005
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Detention
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Tunisia will pursue, in 2008, its commitment to act for the promotion and respect of human rights, and to develop its cooperation with all the concerned parties at the national, regional and international levels
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to discharge its obligations to submit, under the international legal instruments to which it was a party, initial and periodic reports to the respective treaty-monitoring bodies and to implement the recommendations of those bodies
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with the procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Withdrawal of reservations annexed to the law concerning ratification of CRC, given the evolution of Tunisian legislation and the enactment of new laws promoting the rights of the child
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establishment of compulsory health insurance and a medical care fund
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to health
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To achieve by 2008 the modifications to the French legislation to satisfy the requirements of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the open-door policy towards internati onal human rights monitoring mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the development of human rights norms
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain is currently examining the need for comprehensive national action plan on human rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to participate actively in follow-up to the proceedings of relevant conferences, including the forthcoming review of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to participate actively in meetings of the Economic and Social Council and its various commissions and in the General Assembly and Security Council.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In order to strengthen implementation of its obligations under human rights treaties, Bahrain will explore the possibility of creating a working group made up of government ministries with competence for human rights to carry out coordination and follow-up activities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In recognition of the importance of the special procedures and the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, Bahrain pledges to: - Respond in a timely manner to requests for official visits from special rapporteurs, special representatives, independent experts and working groups. It will develop effective policies and mechanisms to respond to these requests.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain studies and reviews the international human rights treaties to which it has yet to accede in order to assess the feasibility of acceding to them. It will seek international assistance and cooperation in order to strengthen individual and institutional capacities in this connection.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain undertakes to begin implementing the articles and provisions of the Act on trafficking in persons.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Trafficking
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain welcomes a visit by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain will also explore the possibility of obtaining appropriate technical assistance to strengthen national implementation of the Convention [on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination].
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain will consider seriously the possibility of enacting a law on combating racial discrimination.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bahrain will continue its efforts to achieve comprehensive development, with the emphasis on the centrality of human rights in development and the importance of supporting a culture of human rights by all available means, including through education, the media, etc.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensification of inspections of workers' housing and of checks on its suitability in terms of security, health, habitability and compliance with the applicable laws and decrees.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to housing
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It has asked the Human Rights Council for technical assistance to help it run human rights training courses and workshops for law enforcement personnel and members of the Prosecution Service and the judiciary.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Justice
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ecuador will promote and disseminate human rights internally, harmonize their domestic legislation vis-à-vis international law, and many other areas.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commitments undertaken to promote the collective rights of afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous peoples, dissemination through a broad process of the outcome of the conference on the elimination of racial discrimination to be held next year in Geneva, adoption of the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people with regard to free and equal access to services in the administration of justice
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The application of best practices in all areas of the universal periodic review process, beginning with the preparation of the report in consultation with the relevant stakeholders, in order to guarantee the implementation of the outcome of the review and follow-up on the progress made by Bahrain in implementing the outcome.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonization of domestic law with international human rights norms, amendments to the Criminal Code, adoption of the anti-discrimination law and, promoting the adoption of a law on crimes against humanity with a view to incorporating the provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government will furthermore support and strengthen national capacities in implementing its human rights obligations, including those of the police, law enforcement personnel, prison and security officers, the media, non-governmental organizations and development actors.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Detention
- Freedom of the press
- Justice
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Ministry of Interior consistently states that it has no objection to peaceful demonstrations provided they are conducted lawfully and participants do not engage in criminal acts of rioting.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the area of persons with different sexual orientation, implementation of a national system to guarantee equality and non-discrimination
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the area of rights of persons with disabilities, full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the promotion of relevant policies and targeted programmes to provide equal access to services and opportunities to persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the area of the rights of migrants, follow-up to programmes and the national plan for the human development of migrants and the promotion and protection of migrants and their families
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland will continue to participate in the World Programme for Human Rights Education, within the first stage of which education on human rights has been introduced into the core curricula of general education at primary and middle schools. Moreover, the Ministry of National Education has launched a number of other measures to promote education on human rights and the rights of child. Training to prepare activities for the advancement of human rights and combating discrimination in local communities has been carried out under numerous projects
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continue and find additional measures to answer the basic needs of the poor and other vulnerable sectors
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Poverty
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland will reinforce actions to implement equal treatment of women and men. A national programme for gender equality for the years 2009-2013 will be prepared, and the draft, on which consultations will be held with social partners and NGO representatives, covers the following areas of action: 1/ Equal economic independence of women and men, including equality in the labour market 2/ Reconciliation of family life and career 3/ Participation in political life and decision-making 4/ Equality in the area of health care 5/ Eradication of all forms of gender-driven violence 6/ Eradication of gender stereotypes, including in schoolbooks and school curricula 7/ Promotion of gender equality in external relations and development policy The action plan for gender equality will reinforce the achievements of the Beijing Platform for Action and relevant international conventions, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In 2008-2013, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy will carry out two projects involving research, training and promotion. The first one will be devoted to the reconciliation of career and family roles of women and men, and the second will be on the socio-economic activation of women at local and regional levels. In accordance with the draft law on equal treatment, the minister responsible for family matters and equal treatment, using data and analyses from independent research and in conjunction with other relevant bodies, will prepare a national programme against discrimination. The programme will determine adequate measures to: 1/ Raise social awareness of the root causes and effects of discrimination 2/ Counteract violations of the principle of equal treatment 3/ Establish cooperation with relevant social partners involved in implementing equal treatment
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights education and training
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To maintain the momentum on addressing killings of activists and media professionals
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promotion of human rights within the armed forces, to create human rights awareness programmes, to hold workshops on prevention and eradication of ill-treatment and torture, training on mediation and arbitration, creation of a section within the Ministry of Defence for the prevention and control of corruption with the armed forces
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Corruption
- Human rights education and training
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promotion of human rights within the national police, modification of the document on criminal police record, creation of a human rights and anti-corruption unit within the National Police, reform of the manual on procedures for the handling of children
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Corruption
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consolidation of the Higher Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, in line with the Paris Principles, by giving it legislative status, reinforcing its administrative and financial autonomy, expanding its prerogatives - self-referral, impromptu visits to prisons, individual appeals, and developing its means of action to stand against all forms of rights violation
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finland is committed to making the UPR recommendations an integral part of the Government's comprehensive human rights policy report to be submitted to Parliament in Spring 2009. The proactive targets to be set in the report will also address these recommendations
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Poland pledges to further improve the situation of disabled persons. Due to its limited effectiveness, a review of the current system of vocational and social rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons, particularly with regard to vocational ctivation, will be carried out
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The State under review will involve civil society and national human rights institutions in consultation and socialization of the Universal Periodic Review procedure until its next Universal Periodic Review.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 1 - April 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- National Human Rights Institution
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To examine the feasibility of conducting a national consultative exercise on a national plan of action to follow up on the Vienna Conference on Human Rights and the Durban Conference on Racism
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To examine the possibility of modifying declarations made by the Government regarding articles 13 and 14, paragraph 5, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To examine the possibility of modifying the declarations made by the French Government on articles 13 and 14 (5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote human rights education
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enter into other commitments considered necessary for the promotion, protection and enforcement of human rights in the country
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To consider without delay the possibility of establishing an interministerial mechanism to hold regular meetings on the preparation of reports on the human rights situation in France for submission to international bodies, and to examine, in conjunction with the Advisory Commission, modalities for follow-up on recommendations made by those bodies and by the competent national institutions, including the Commission
- Recommending State
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Treaty bodies
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensuring prompt and impartial investigations of allegations of ill-treatment, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Universal coverage by 2010.(2) Establishing 90 telemedicine stations for remote locations.(3) Standardizing the Mandatory Health Plan for children of all social strata as a first step towards compliance with Constitutional Court order No. T-760 of 2008, which requires benefits for children, adults and citizens in general to be standardized.(4) Reducing maternal and infant mortality in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals.(5) Putting the national public health plan and the sexual and reproductive health plan into effect.(6) Improving nutrition levels among girls.(7) Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other serious illnesses.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Speeding up the process of establishing the truth. (2) Speeding up the identification of human remains so that they can be handed over to family members. (3) Inquiring into and investigating crimes committed by demobilized individuals against women and children (sexual violence and recruitment of children especially). (4) Promoting the National Reparation Programme. (5) Expanding the Victim and Witness Protection Programme. (6) Giving more publicity to victims' rights and taking steps which will include promoting the activities that the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission has been carrying out. (7) Getting the regional property restitution committees into operation. (8) Completing the historical commemorative document which the Act has assigned the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission to produce.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
(1) Strengthen semi-official investigation in the event of sexual and domestic violence. (2) Guarantee female victims of such violence full access to justice. (3) Guarantee a safe setting and favourable environment for the exercise by women of their Rights. (4) Safeguard the rights of women affected by violence by armed outlaw bands. (5) Apply the gender perspective to victim care policies and make public servants aware of that perspective.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein will continue its efforts to address potential de facto discrimination of women, including with regard to inheritance
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Considering strengthening dialogue with the Council and its special procedures, and cooperation with all relevant United Nations special procedures and mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continuing and strengthening its efforts to achieve gender equality in Government and public services at all levels, to this end, the newly elected Parliament, the Knesset, had 21 women, among the largest number of women members in the history of Israel, and 3 more than in the previous Knesset
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensuring all cases are reviewed by a court in accordance with fair procedures
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensuring best protection of human rights and follow-up to the implementation of international instruments
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Moving forward, the Government is committed to studying the framework for accession to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Luxembourg pledged to include gender dimensions in the review follow-up, such as in measures under chapter 9 on fundamental rights of the national plan of action for gender equality for 2009-2013, which was to be adopted after the election in 2009
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein will continue to pay particular attention to the promotion of ethnic and religious tolerance between the different communities in the country
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein will continue to pay particular attention to the promotion of genuine respect for diversity and knowledge of different cultures and traditions
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein will continue to pay particular attention to the promotion of women's participation at all levels and in all areas of public life, including through special measures
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein will intensify its examination of the necessary implementation measures with a view to a possible accession to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Montenegro committed itself to making an active contribution to universal fight for human rights: working with other members and stakeholders on further development of the Human Rights Council, and the mechanisms of the Universal Periodical Review, actively promoting and protecting human rights through implementation of norms on human rights and by providing adequate response to any violation of these rights, working within the Human Rights Council to enable rapid reaction in case of crisis, finding new ways to promote effective coordination and engagement of the United Nations system in the area of human rights, strengthening cooperation between member-states, United Nations agencies, and other international and regional organizations, national institutions for protection of human rights and civil society, supporting and promoting international cooperation and dialogue in order to improve numerous programs on human rights, gender equality, protection of children, democracy, good governance, and the rule of law.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Liechtenstein would intensify its examination of the necessary implementation measures with a view to a possible accession to that convention and its protocol [Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol]. The commitment was made against the background of Liechtenstein's general policy with regard to international treaties, which consists in adapting the relevant national legislation before ratification in order to allow for immediate implementation thereafter.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pay particular attention to the promotion of women's participation at all levels and in all areas of public life. In this context, the delegation added that the new Government to be sworn in very soon would have a proportion of 40 per cent of female ministers
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government firmly intended to conduct a broad-based discussion with all concerned State bodies and nongovernmental organizations, as well as with other civil society institutions and the media, to look at the recommendations emerging from the report on Uzbekistan and to develop and implement an appropriate national plan of action
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Luxembourg pledged to achieve the human rights voluntary goals enshrined in Council resolution 9/12
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commitment to raising the age for compulsory education to 18 years.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Azerbaijan pledged to pay even greater attention to improving gender equality and the protection of the rights of children, and to improving the social situation of refugees and internally displaced persons.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 4 - February 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Internally displaced persons
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
More than 3.1 million foreign workers are contractually employed and the Government is fully committed to creating the necessary mechanisms and safeguards to protect all who reside and work in the country.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 3 - December 2008
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The ruling political party has committed to field at least 30 per cent women candidates at the next round of national elections in 2013.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Elections
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The government is committed to addressing the issue of domestic violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Uruguay indicated that it had started to comply with its own voluntary commitments made during the Working Group session, including the submission of five reports to various treaty monitoring bodies - the Committee on Migrant Workers, the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - and on the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establishment of a national shelter for the rehabilitation of former women prisoners upon release and their reintegration into society
- Recommending State
- Session
- 5 - May 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation stated that Cambodia was committed to establishing an independent human rights institution.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 6 - December 2009
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana voluntarily commits to continue to actively consider those remaining international human rights instruments.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana supported Recommendation 70.43 on increasing the age of criminality and volunteered to report the outcomes of the on-going consultations in relation to the new draft Juvenile Justice Bill.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Armenia reaffirmed its commitment to implement all its obligations towards improving the protection and promotion of human rights in the country. Armenia stands ready to fully cooperate with the Council all UN special procedures, and all actors in the field, as well as at the national or international levels, toward achieving prosperity and full enjoyment of all rights by all the citizens in the country.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Efforts will be continued to create legislation against human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants in line with the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Trafficking
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government reaffirms its commitment to promoting respect for the dignity of human person and it will therefore work to reduce the number of situations that threaten the human rights paradigm.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Efforts will be made, in conjunction with the legislature and the executive authority, to create special legislation to harmonize the domestic laws on children's rights in keeping with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the two Optional Protocols thereto and the other conventions which deal with the subject of children.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legal procedures have been instituted with a view to enacting a new law on private sector employment to replace the current legislation and to introduce a statutory minimum wage, which will be subject to regular review, and also to restructure the labour market in order to balance the freedom to change jobs with the protection of employers' interests.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Labour rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Italy abides by its commitment towards the implementation of the constitutional principle of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including in the press and media sectors, by ensuring pluralism, the widest variety of information and views, including by national, regional and local newspapers, magazines, radio and TV channels, web-based information, and more generally the independence of the media.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Italy is committed to promoting LGBT rights, combating discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation and guaranteeing the implementation of relevant legislation already in force, to ensure gender equality, including the prevention and removal of discriminatory conducts for reasons directly or indirectly based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, age or sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Italy remains fully committed to promoting effective measures for the social integration of regular migrants.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Migrants
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation stated that Guyana re-affirmed its commitment to holding consultations with civil society, the four Human Rights Commissions, various levels of government and state agencies, and the National Assembly on the follow-up to the UPR process. It also reported its initiatives to strengthen the government-NGO partnership to reduce and prevent domestic and sexual violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Rights of the Child
- UPR process
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Italy is committed to ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture once a relevant independent national preventive mechanism will be put in place.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It renewed Qatar's commitment to further its cooperation and consultation with all UN human rights mechanisms and its support to the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Session
- 7 - February 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government provides compulsory and free primary schools. There needs to be a system of checks to ensure that all children are allowed to go to school. Legislation provides that parents can be taken to court and charged if proved that they purposely hold their children from school. Due to financial constraints, some families may prefer boys go to school whilst girls are 'educated' at home. This practice is fast becoming extinct and education statistics have shown higher number of girls obtaining scholarships in past years. Primary, Secondary, Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) and Tertiary Institutions are highly subsidized by Government through provision of Teacher salaries, free equipment and other teaching materials.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Jamaica stressed its commitment to promote and protect human rights and requested help to do so.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Regarding the legislative framework, Jamaica affirmed its commitment to bringing the country's legal framework into compliance with the provisions of CEDAW.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Croatia remains fully committed to making the recommendations of the Human Rights Council mechanisms more visible, including through the Internet
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Croatian Government has actively promoted reconciliation and remains committed to assure enjoyment and implementation of the rights of all persons belonging to minorities. Croatian Government implements specific programmes with regard to the return of refugees and their settlement in the country of origin, including through providing housing and adequate care and remains committed to the continuation of dialogue and cooperation aimed at finding adequate solutions to the refugee problems at the regional level.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Minority rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In conclusion, the head of delegation reconfirmed the Government's commitment and full respect of international standards of human rights and its commitment to cooperation with international mechanisms and civil society organizations.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Lao PDR will consider signing the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment (CAT), ratifying the Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, acceding to human rights conventions and other conventions such as the International Labour Organizations (ILO) conventions, etc.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Torture and other CID treatment
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Lao PDR will continue to disseminate information about human rights conventions to officials, civil servants, officers at the central and local levels and to the general public, including the youth and children.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- International instruments
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Lao PDR will continue to exchange lessons and experiences with the international community in order to enhance cooperation and technical assistance to promote and protect human rights.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make a contribution to the promotion and advancement of human rights, working through regional human rights mechanisms by way of its membership of the League of Arab States and the African Union.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Support OHCHR in accordance with the available mechanisms and cooperate with those mechanisms in order to facilitate OHCHR's discharge of its functions in conformity with its human rights mandate.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Other
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Lesotho reiterated its commitment to accelerate sustainable economic growth, continue to work on the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, improve access to justice for all, intensify and continue efforts in the fight against corruption and strive to achieve the objectives of Vision 2020 and the Millennium Development Goals.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Corruption
- National Human Rights Institution
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maldives will submit a mid-term review on the progress made on the implementation.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The RMI is committed to developing socio-economic strategies and plans.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to development
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
It is the constitutional mandate of the Attorney-General's Office to provide legal advice and service to the Government. Also provided under the Constitution is the Government's recognition of the right of the people to legal services, and is obliged to take every step reasonable and necessary to provide said services. Consequently, for indigent people who cannot afford legal representation, free legal access is provided by the Public Defender's Office and the Micronesian Legal Services Office.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Education Act states that the Nitijela declares and recognizes the right of the people to education and the Government's obligation to take every step reasonable and necessary to provide this service as per the Constitution. The compulsory ages of school attendance is 4-18 years old. It is the Government's policy that the goal of its educational system is to foster self-reliance. In addition to free education, transportation and meals are also provided by the Government. 44. In renegotiating the Compact of Free Association with the United States, the RMI Government had maintained that one of its priority areas was education. Since the amended Compact came into effect, the Government has built approximately 200 newly constructed and repaired classrooms throughout the country utilizing Compact public infrastructure funding.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Right to education
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The RMI Government is committed to maintaining this practice [involvement of civil society in UPR-related activities] during the follow-up process.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- UPR process
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The RMI is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Women in Development Office and the Child Rights Office have been set up under the Ministry of Internal Affairs to implement the provisions of both conventions and ensure the fulfillment of RMI's obligation. The RMI submitted its initial country report as well as its 2nd Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, but has yet to do so with respect to CEDAW. Although the RMI has ratified only 2 of the core human rights conventions, it is envisaged that the RMI will be in a better position to ratify other conventions. The fact of the matter is, however, that due to capacity and resource constraints, full implementation of the 2 human rights conventions ratified thus far has been difficult already. In the same token, it should be noted that where the construction of a written law is open to more than one interpretation, an interpretation which is consistent with the RMI's international obligations will be preferred. The goal to ratify other human rights conventions remains nevertheless.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The RMI is committed to abiding by the principles of the main human rights treaties and in continuing efforts in ratifying or acceding to the said treaties.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments