91.1.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its current efforts to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
91.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue working to consolidate the civil rights of persons belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
91.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to carry out policies to protect and promote the human rights of vulnerable groups, such as women, children and persons with disabilities, and to prevent and combat all forms of violence and discrimination against them, including domestic violence and human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.92
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in particular by ensuring access to public places and equitable access to medical equipment and services for persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.89
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to identify and allocate resources to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to ensure respect for persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its ongoing work to ensure the universal registration of births
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote legislation prohibiting all violence against children within the framework of the Government’s commitments and its Vanuatu National Child Protection Policy, 2016–2026
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue efforts to promote and protect the rights of children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to increase its efforts to encourage the representation of women in Parliament and in other aspects of public life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen measures to combat gender-based violence and domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to eliminate gender-based violence, including domestic and sexual violence, by, for example, allocating adequate resources for the training of law enforcement and medical personnel, for investigations and the prosecution of perpetrators of these crimes, and for access to services for victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to combat domestic and gender-based violence and to promote access by women to leadership positions and their participation in politics, within the framework of the National Gender Equality Policy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen the Department of Women’s Affairs and intensify efforts to combat violence against women and girls, ensuring that perpetrators of such acts are duly prosecuted and convicted by the formal justice system and that the police, prosecutors, judges and lawyers are provided with appropriate training on women’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.52
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take wide-ranging action to address the levels of violence and discrimination against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue efforts to prevent violence against women and domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen its mechanisms and policies to combat violence against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue efforts to achieve gender equality, especially in employment and decision-making positions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to improve access to quality education for all children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to ensure access to education, in particular to expand the continuity of studies, and inclusive education for children with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue promoting measures for the full education and literacy of all citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to ensure the improvement of medical health services in the country, including through further investments in the training of health-care professionals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to give priority to the right to health, and implement effective measures to continue expanding access among rural populations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to consolidate its social and human rights policies, in particular in the area of economic, social and cultural rights, to improve the living standards of its people, particularly the most vulnerable sectors of the population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to protect the rights of persons displaced within its territory as a consequence of natural disasters
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to review relevant domestic legislation relating to detainees, and invest further in prison infrastructure to ensure humane treatment and living conditions for all its detainees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote stronger mitigation action by all other States, in particular the main current and historical emitters, in order to protect the fundamental rights of the people of Vanuatu
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to advance efforts in response to the effects of climate change with a focus on vulnerable groups, including women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement the national plan for sustainable development, to reduce poverty and raise people’s living standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
90.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote gender equality, and protect the rights of women, children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020