137.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to proactively identify sex trafficking and labour trafficking victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.139
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to combat human trafficking by vigorously investigating and, as appropriate, prosecuting and convicting traffickers; addressing systemic deficiencies in victim identification, referral and assistance; and providing specialized accommodation for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.159
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further strengthen efforts to counter and prevent trafficking in persons, including by, where appropriate, prosecuting traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.217
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that migrant and asylum-seeking populations detained in pre- removal facilities or residing at the country’s six reception and identification centres have healthy living conditions and access to education for children and are screened for trafficking indicators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Detention
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
86.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve protections for victims and accountability for perpetrators of sexual assault, violence against women and human trafficking crimes, including with regard to children trafficked for forced labour and commercial sex
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
106.73
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to eliminate human trafficking in the Marshall Islands, including by vigorously investigating, prosecuting and sentencing human traffickers, correctly identifying human trafficking victims as such and enhancing the assistance provided to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
103.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Vigorously investigate and prosecute trafficking cases, raise community awareness of what constitutes trafficking and increase funding for prosecutors in charge of cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
148.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate access for international non-governmental organizations and United Nations bodies to mass grave sites and detention centres, protect detainees from violence, exploitation and abuse by smugglers and hold accountable those responsible for such acts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
104.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the definition of trafficking in persons to include force, fraud and coercion, while removing the requirement of movement from the statutory definition under the criminal code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.66
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat trafficking in persons by increasing the number of trafficking victims annually identified and receiving services, and enforce accountability of suspected human trafficking offenders by increasing prosecutions and punishments
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
146.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement standardized nationwide procedures for identifying victims of trafficking in persons and populate trafficking in persons regional databases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its victim protection, law enforcement, and prevention efforts by vigorously prosecuting sex and labour trafficking offences and imposing adequate penalties, including significant prison terms, on all convicted traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to effectively screen for labour trafficking victims through increased inspections and improved training of labour inspectors and refer victims for services, particularly in the agriculture and service sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
112.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the investigation and prosecution of trafficking offences by training officials to better identify trafficking victims, developing a mechanism to refer victims to services and prosecuting traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure human traffickers are prosecuted for “trafficking” and sentence those convicted with punishments reflecting the severity of the crime; and institute a public awareness campaign about forced labour, to include the protections available for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
129.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to criminally prosecute traffickers and provide adequate care to trafficking victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
80.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize the sex and labour trafficking of children within the country and specify definitions in the Criminal Code for light and hazardous work in order to more clearly define child labour abuses
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
119.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to vigorously investigate, prosecute and convict individuals responsible for or complicit in trafficking in persons, including child sex tourism within the Bijagós Islands
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend section 32 of the Employment Act to expressly prohibit hazardous work for children and trafficking of children in all cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further protect children by amending the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act to make clear that an act can be considered trafficking even if it does not involve explicit threats, abuse of power or other forms of coercion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
96.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to prosecute human traffickers, including child sex traffickers, and identify and assist victims of this crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to identify and protect victims of labour and sex trafficking and to hold traffickers accountable, including by acceding to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Convention against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
95.79
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Vigorously investigate, prosecute, and convict traffickers, including complicit officials, under articles 110 (a) and 128 (b) of the Criminal Code and increase the number of judges and district prosecutors trained on victim- centred approaches to trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
144.95
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commit sufficient funding to the ongoing campaign against forced child begging and investigate, arrest and prosecute all individuals who violate the anti-trafficking law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
122.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to pursue convictions under domestic anti-trafficking laws, including stringent penalties for offenders, and to take steps to reduce demand for forced labour, including in supply chains
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
106.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prescribe and, where appropriate, impose punishment that is sufficiently stringent to deter the crime of trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
130.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation that criminalizes all forms of trafficking and prescribes sufficiently stringent penalties
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
119.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enforce labour laws and implement programmes to eliminate trafficking in persons, including forced child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
77.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Invest in legal and social services for trafficking and victims of gender- based violence with an emphasis on accountability mechanisms that ensure legal protection, prevent abuse by security officials, and provide human rights training for front line officials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
77.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address human trafficking challenges with a focus on investigating and prosecuting suspected traffickers, including complicit officials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020