124.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide comprehensive sexuality education as part of the school curriculum
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase support for reproductive health and family planning services and access to affordable contraceptives and contraceptive methods
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement national legislation and policies to safeguard women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health services and information, and end child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services and commodities, including through family planning outreach, to address teenage pregnancy and child marriage in all districts of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reduce maternal mortality by ensuring the provision of adequate sexual and reproductive health services, in particular access to antenatal, delivery and postnatal services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty and accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete legal and policy measures, including the provision of adequate human rights training for health personnel, to eliminate all forms of stigma and discrimination in health settings, in particular against women and girls, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, persons affected by HIV/AIDS and persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Human rights education and training
- Right to health
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce a de jure moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to fully abolishing capital punishment and ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully abolish the death penalty and implement the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to commute all death sentences to alternative sentences and to put in place a moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to legally abolishing it for all crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain the moratorium on executions for the final abolition of the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a de jure moratorium on the death penalty leading to its definitive abolition, and consider ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions criminalizing sexual activity between consenting adults, and mandate the Malawi Human Rights Commission to protect the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize same-sex relationships and repeal legislation that discriminates against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize formally consensual same-sex relations between adults, and introduce comprehensive anti-discrimination laws inclusive of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal sections 137A, 153, 154 and 156 of the Penal Code and develop comprehensive legislation that prohibits any discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions criminalizing consensual same-sex relations and prevent discrimination and abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Uphold the principle of non-discrimination by decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations, and explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity among the grounds of discrimination prohibited by the Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex and expand its anti-discrimination legislation to include a prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures against discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and fight impunity for violence based on gender identity and sexual orientation by revising national legislation in order to explicitly include gender identity and sexual orientation among the prohibited grounds of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and fight discrimination against and stigmatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit discrimination based on gender, gender identity or sexual orientation in all aspects of social life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal those sections of the Malawi Penal Code that criminalize same- sex sexual activity between consenting adults and those that criminalize the gender identity and/or expression of transgender people, such as the prescription for the appearance of men
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex status and conduct
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consenting relations between persons of the same sex, prosecute the perpetrators of the growing attacks against persons belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, and guarantee that those persons do not face de jure or de facto discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
124.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all reasonable measures to review and ratify all outstanding international human rights conventions, including the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.178
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate adequate funding for the implementation of the National Strategy on Ending Child Marriage and to invest in girls’ education as an important intervention to prevent child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.175
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all measures to eliminate child marriage and put in place comprehensive awareness campaigns and programmes on the provisions criminalizing harmful practices and the negative consequences thereof on children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.170
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize laws and adequately fund the National Strategy on Ending Child Marriage (2018–2023) with a view to taking all necessary measures to end child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021