UPR Info

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

Promote human rights education

Cooperate fully with the procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council

Establishment of juvenile courts and specialized detention, re-education and rehabilitation centres for women and children in the country's eight regions

Promote the development of human rights norms

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

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.

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

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

Tunisia decided to create an institution related to the General Human Rights Coordinator in charge of the follow-up to treaty bodies' recommendations in order to promote their effective implementation

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

Approval of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol

Receive special rapporteurs from the Human Rights Council as well as from the African Commission on Human Rights

Submit, in 2008, eight reports to United Nations bodies, of which seven to treaty bodies: (i) Fifth and sixth periodic reports on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), (ii) Third periodic report on the implementation of the International Convention, against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), (iii) Eighteenth and nineteenth periodic reports on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), (iv) Third periodic report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), (v) Initial report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, concerning the involvement of children in armed conflicts, (vi) Third periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), (vii) Fifth periodic report on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Stress cooperation and constructive dialogue between members and non-members of the Human Rights Council with a view to enhancing the effective execution of the Council's mandate

To extend a standing invitation to special mandate holders on human rights

An inter-ministerial committee was established in 2002, the mandate of the committee was to facilitate treaty implementation, particularly reporting as required by the various international treaties. Due to capacity constraints both financial and human, this Committee has not delivered on its mandate effectively. The Government has recently made a commitment to strengthening the capacity of the committee and to this end is being assisted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Initiation, in 2007, of a review process in Mali within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) African Peer Review Mechanism

The Government expresses its commitment to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur [on Contemporary Forms of Racism],including in the event the Special Rapporteur expresses a wish to visit Botswana

Stepping up action to eliminate discrimination against women, violence against women and the practice of female genital mutilation

Strengthening institutional support for the National Human Rights Commission and applying for its accreditation by the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions

Continuation and strengthening of measures aimed at promoting equality between men and women

Provision of support for the implementation of the Ten-Year Justice Development Programme (PRODEJ) and other programmes for the promotion and protection of human rights

Support the active participation of non-governmental organizations and other civil society representatives in the work of the Council

Tunisia's commitment to objectively and constructively contribute, at the level of examination and follow-up to its report, to promoting the UPR mechanism's modalities and objectives, as contained in General Assembly resolution 60/251, which includes "ensuring universality, objectivity and non-selectivity in the consideration of human rights issues" and making sure that "the promotion and protection of human rights [are] based on the principles of cooperation and genuine dialogue".

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

Adoption of the draft Personal and Family Code and the bill on abolition of the death penalty

Establishment of compulsory health insurance and a medical care fund

Encourage States that had not yet done so to become parties to the major human rights instruments and, accordingly, to comply with their obligations thereunder

Mali pledged to give thorough consideration to all requests for visits addressed by the special procedures