130.11.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- 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
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
130.182
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt appropriate assistance programmes with regard to the rehabilitation and social integration of child soldiers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.179
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt specific measures to prevent and combat the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, the early marriage of girls and forced labour throughout the national territory, with special emphasis on the regions of the country where these phenomena prevail
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.178
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop outreach campaigns, carry out monitoring actions and ensure access to justice so that the law relating to the protection of children, which prohibits corporal punishment, is effective in putting an end to all forms of physical, verbal or psychological violence exercised against girls and boys
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Formulate long-term universal public policies to guarantee free access for all children to schools and health services, with strategies to prevent the school dropout of girls throughout the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.172
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a national strategy to prevent and combat all forms of violence and exploitation against children, including campaigns to raise awareness of children’s rights at all levels of society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to strengthen the birth registration system so that it is universal, efficient and accessible and promotes immediate registration without discrimination due to gender, ethnic or national origin, and disability, among others
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Approve a general law to combat and eliminate all forms of violence against women, including spousal rape and female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to establish a prohibition of female genital mutilation, and guarantee adequate and effective protection against all forms of discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.140
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Give continuity to the processing of the draft bill to combat violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.134
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue working to improve the education system, in particular to expand access in rural areas and the continuity of girls’ studies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to reduce poverty, and to improve the health system to improve indicators such as infant and maternal mortality and the incidence of communicable diseases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate cases of enforced disappearance and punish their perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate measures to ensure that all allegations of enforced disappearance, torture, ill-treatment and death in prison are promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigated and that the perpetrators are convicted, while guaranteeing the rights of victims and their families to justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish mechanisms as soon as possible to ensure transparent and accountable management in the extractive industries sector
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to consolidate its social and human rights policies through the National Development Plan 2018–2022, in order to increase the quality of life of its people, particularly of the most vulnerable sectors of the population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Right to development
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate, prosecute and sentence, as appropriate, Congolese staff members who have been or are involved in allegations of abuse and criminality, including sexual exploitation, as part of peacekeeping operations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Public security
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider the establishment of an independent child rights oversight mechanism, and take additional measures to reduce disparities in access to school and other public goods related to gender or socioeconomic, ethnic or regional reasons, paying particular attention to refugee children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize the National Human Rights Commission in accordance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide the Human Rights Commission with sufficient financial resources, autonomy and independence to be able to align with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Study the possibility of adhering to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and establish a national mechanism for the prevention of torture and improve its system for registering persons deprived of their liberty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, bearing in mind that Congo stopped applying the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
130.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and work to eliminate references to the death penalty in the Criminal Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue adopting measures to guarantee the rights of persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, in addition to the provisions under Act No. 4/2010
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide medical and psychological assistance to women who were victims of sexual violations during the conflicts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish food self-sufficiency projects aimed at vulnerable groups and develop technical education to allow access of young people to the labour market
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Right to food
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 17 - October 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pay attention to the needs of persons living in rural areas, especially women, to ensure that they have access to medical and sanitary services, education and income generating projects
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019