147.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the 1971 Law of Marriage Act to raise the marriage age for girls to 18 years, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2019
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.222
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take legislative and policy measures to prevent and respond to all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including those related to conflict, ensure that perpetrators are held to account and provide comprehensive services to survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.221
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expeditiously implement the 2018 Revitalized Agreement in its entirety and ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation and leadership of women in all related processes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further actions towards eliminating gender-based violence and violence against children, including by adequately funding shelter and support services and actively progressing the passage and implementation of the Child Care and Protection Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to pursue the recommendations outlined in the State of Human Rights Report: 2015, particularly those related to women, children, persons with disabilities and prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.127
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation on sexual and gender-based violence, including marital rape and other forms of domestic violence and family violence; and ensure that victim-survivors can access justice, support mechanisms and necessary services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement recommendations emanating from the first report to parliament on the inquiry into gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea and advance the implementation of the sorcery accusation-related violence national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
127.174
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review sexual and gender-based violence-related legislation and policy to ensure availability and accessibility of legal aid for victims and survivors and that perpetrators are held to account
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
138.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to ensure the protection of all persons against sexual violence, regardless of age or gender, through possible legislative reform and establishing effective and safe avenues for reporting abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.164
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Build upon the institutional framework stablished under Law No. 4604/2019 to drive substantive gender equality and the elimination of gender- based violence
- Recommending State
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal discriminatory provisions against women in national legislation, including in the Equal Opportunity Act and the Sexual Offences Act, with a view to fully incorporating the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women into national legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.95
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal government regulations that prohibit pregnant teenagers from attending high school to ensure women’s and girls’ right to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
104.125
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise the health and family life education programme, especially to include components on healthy and respectful relationships, human rights, gender equality, non-discrimination, violence and gender-based violence, in line with United Nations technical guidelines, and train competent facilitators or service providers to deliver the programme
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
130.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislative frameworks to address domestic and sexual violence against women and girls and take further steps through education and social protection measures, such as training of law enforcement personnel and judicial officers, sensitizing the media and educating the public
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
159.197
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to end gender-based violence and caste-based discrimination and ensure access to justice for survivors, including by bringing rape laws in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
86.130
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Build on the work done to date by consistently criminalizing domestic violence across the whole of the Federated States of Micronesia, including by introducing legislation to criminalize domestic violence in Yap and Chuuk States
- Recommending State
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
33.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to protect the rights of women and girls, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and persons with disabilities, including through legislative reform for adequate protections from discrimination and violence, including all forms of sexual violence, and decriminalize same-sex sexual conduct
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
150.289
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact a unified personal status law, amend the nationality law to afford women the same rights as men, and adopt a comprehensive legal framework to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harassment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
148.225
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Target the root causes of child and forced marriage through education, training and public awareness campaigns and provide support services to the survivors of such marriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
134.195
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement further reforms that improve women’s economic empowerment and workforce participation, as well as reforms that eliminate discrimination against women in matters of family law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
106.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure sufficient resources for the implementation of the Child Rights Protection Act 2015, the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2015, the Human Rights Committee Act 2015 and the Gender Equality Act 2019 legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
106.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively implement the Domestic Violence Prevention and Protection (Amendment) Act 2018, including through advocacy and awareness- raising among targeted audiences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
116.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the rights of women and girls by removing requirements for virginity testing from clinical guidelines and medical standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
116.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase funding to implement its law on combating domestic violence and enable greater cooperation between sectors responsible for combating and reporting domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
148.226
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend laws and legislation to ensure that they are not discriminatory against women, criminalize violence against women and ensure that those who commit such violence are held to account
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
26.301
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that laws permitting the refusal of care based on religious and moral beliefs do not restrict women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and that measures are put in place to monitor and prevent violations of these rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
26.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.202
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote gender equality, in particular women’s economic participation and representation at all levels of decision-making, and ensure the effective implementation of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, including with adequate funding and staffing to implement the domestic violence prevention strategic plan and national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand resources for gender-based violence awareness campaigns, legal aid, shelters, and health, education and employment services for victims and survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
137.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the Istanbul Convention into domestic laws and policies, to protect and support victims and survivors of gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021