N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider strengthening the positive impact expected from the Kiribati Joint Implementation Plan on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management on human rights through training of relevant stakeholders on human rights approaches to climate change and disaster risk management
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enshrine the right to education in its Constitution and allow pregnant girls to pursue their education in schools of their choice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Following the enactment of the Education Act (2013), adopt policies and regulations to strengthen access to and quality of education, which is free and compulsory for all school-aged children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize defamation and include it under the Civil Code in accordance with international standards, develop self-regulatory mechanisms of the media and strengthen the professional standards of journalism in the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a list of hazardous work activities prohibited for children, and better enforce existing laws to fully protect children from the worst forms of child labour and all forms of sexual exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Actively conduct education and awareness campaigns on the issue of child prostitution, particularly in well-known meeting places of foreign crew members. These campaigns should make clear that under Kiribati Law, the crime of sex trafficking includes subjecting a child to prostitution even in the absence of transnational movement or the use of force or coercion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the right "to administer reasonable punishment" and clearly prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including in the home
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation to cover all forms of violence against women (including physical, sexual, trafficking, sexual harassment, stalking, psychological and economic), protection orders, ancillary civil orders, criminal process and procedure, evidence laws and police powers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the National Action Plan Eliminating Sexual and Gender Based Violence and review its laws, policies and practices which perpetuate discrimination against women and girls and their marginalization, in accordance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to which Kiribati is a party
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a formal moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Halt any plans to reinstate the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation prohibiting all forms of discrimination of individuals, based on race, colour of the skin, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, aesthetic aspect, gender, sexual identity or orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce legislation to satisfy its commitments on equality and non-discrimination, including as it pertains to same sex relations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize homosexuality and sign the joint declaration of the United Nations General Assembly of 18 December 2008 regarding human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Design a targeted campaign challenging patriarchal attitudes and gender stereotypes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend standing invitations to all human rights special procedures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Complete the CEDAW reports before the due date in 2015
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an inter-institutional coordination mechanism to promote gender equality and the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the Family Peace Act (2014) as a matter of priority to address domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Swiftly finalize the Family Peace Act Implementation Plan to ensure the Act is effective in providing protection and redress for victims of domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its Constitution to include sex, gender and disability as grounds for non-discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Complete the process of ratification of the two Optional Protocols to the CRC
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the ICESCR as an important tool to give greater effectiveness to the protection of human rights in the context of climate change, as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the major international instruments, including the ICCPR and the ICESCR
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as well as its Agreement on Privileges and Immunities without formulating any reservation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and implement it into national law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and fully implement its provisions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019