UPR Info

The establishment of an international round table to discuss the interrelation between security and fundamental freedoms.

Cooperate with special procedures mandate holders.

Implement measures to protect detainees from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and ensure that all cases of persons detained are brought to the attention of the judiciary without delay.

Take initiatives to strengthen gender mainstreaming and women's rights.

Integrate the gender perspective in the follow-up process to the UPR.

Consider withdrawing its reservation to article 2 of CEDAW.

Take measures for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Continue efforts to bring its legislation into line with the norms and principles of the overall protection system of children and adolescents.

Continue its efforts to improve the situation of children in detention as recommended by the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Pursue efforts to counter discrimination in whatever form, in particular towards the most vulnerable sectors of the population in the follow-up to the Durban Conference and the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Take steps to ensure that, both at federal and provincial level, there is no impunity for the crime of torture.

Continue its efforts, together with other signatories to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, to guarantee better accession.

Conduct wide consultations between different partners, in particular the legislative authority, with the view of adopting a family law.

Consider signing the Convention on the Protection of Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Consider inviting the United Nations to a workshop on follow-up to the UPR.

Implement at the earliest possible moment the initiative to bring serious human rights abuses under Federal Law if it is not done yet.

While continuing its positive initiatives, invest more rigour in evaluating the outcomes of planned activities in many of these areas: prisons conditions, criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, violence and extrajudicial killings committed by state military police, torture, protection of human rights defenders, violence against women, indigenous communities, rural violence and land conflict, child and slave labour, impunity for those involved with human trafficking and corruption.

Encourage the establishment of a national human rights institution compliant with the Paris Principles.

Adhere to the recommendation by CEDAW to closely monitor the effective implementation of the new legal framework in the Employment Act and Labour Code, provide anti-discrimination provisions for the advancement of women and minorities and ensure that the private sector fully abides by anti-discrimination laws.

Enact anti-discrimination legislation in the field of access to private and public housing.

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Complete the drafting of the anti-discrimination act as soon as possible to ensure that Roma will not be discriminated in the field of employment, health care, education, housing and the administration of Justice.

Compile information on the violence against children within the family.

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Consider using the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity as a guide to assist in its policies development.

Continue reviewing the procedures regarding requests for asylum in the light of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.