UPR Info

Establish a moratorium on all executions and eventually abolish the death penalty

Positively consider issuing a standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council

Consider abolishing the death penalty

The Parliament to dismiss the proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009

Ensure equal rights for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT)

Accept visit requests from the UN Special Rapporteurs and the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights

Harmonize the Venezuelan legal framework related to the right to the freedom of expression with the country's international obligations

Consider acceding to the ICRMW

Include in the Anti-discrimination Law a specific prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Introduce legislation, uniformly across the Confederation, that explicitly protects LGBT persons from discrimination, and take into account the issues faced by LGBT persons when creating a general act on equal treatment

Ratify ICRMW

Review the inconsistencies between the Children's Act of 2009 and international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, such as the prohibition of corporal punishment of children in all settings

Apply strict measures to stamp out corporal punishment in school and home settings

Abolish the death penalty and ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Adopt measures to eliminate corporal punishment

Ratify the Rome Statue and ensure its full implementation in national legislation

Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Withdraw all reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Release of all prisoners of conscience

Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Effectively ban torture in all its forms and ratify the OP-CAT

Evaluate regulations and laws, including those which grant the Orthodox Rabbinate the right to determine policies affecting non-Orthodox Jews and non Jews, to ensure that they do not discriminate against persons, especially women, based on their religious beliefs or lack thereof

Allow the return of the refugees

Respect all the historical and human rights of the Palestinians

Bring all settlements building in the occupied Palestinian and Arab Territories to a halt

Extend a standing invitation to the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations

Proceed to the ratification the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty