142.228
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement, in collaboration with Canada’s various government entities and civil society, a national action plan to follow up on the recommendations of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, following its visit to Canada in 2016
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.172
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put in place specific programmes to ensure better education for people of African descent and other indigenous peoples to lift them out of poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.134
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address the employment disparity for African Canadians through the enactment of employment equity legislation through targeted hiring policies similar to those for First Nations people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to prevent excessive use of force and the high number of deaths involving the police among vulnerable people of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End excessive use of force by the police when responding to cases involving vulnerable people of African descent, such as those who are mentally ill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct impartial, thorough and effective investigations into all cases of attacks against and harassment and intimidation of religious and ethnic minority groups and bring perpetrators of such offences to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
121.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set up a national action plan and a strategy aimed at ensuring that minorities have access to appropriate school programmes that respect their way of life and their culture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- National action plan
- Right to education
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate all reported cases of violations and abuses, and hold perpetrators to account in accordance with the rule of law, in the context of concerns raised about arbitrary arrests, excessive violence and extrajudicial executions by government forces, armed groups against members of the country’s English-speaking minority, and allegations of torture of detainees suspected of belonging to terrorist groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights and terrorism
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Minority rights
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.65
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expressly engage in a sustained dialogue with the representatives of the English-speaking community on the crisis in the North-west and South-west regions of the country to reach a consensual solution that upholds human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Initiate a multi-stakeholder dialogue at the political level with the various stakeholders in the English-speaking communities in order to identify appropriate measures to respond adequately to the violence affecting the Southwest and Northwest areas of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the effective implementation of the official bilingualism policy in consultation with all stakeholders, in order to assure equal treatment to the English-speaking minority and to eliminate marginalization in all its forms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate all cases of disappearance of political opposition representatives, including members of the English-speaking minority, and take all adequate measures to find them and enable them to return safely to their homes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure transparency of and provide information on the human rights situation in the English-speaking region, inter alia by allowing the United Nations and national and international human rights institutions and organizations access to the region
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
126.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct awareness-raising activities to change negative attitudes towards people with albinism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
125.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Move forward with the translation of review recommendations into the national languages to ensure their wide public dissemination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- UPR process
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to implement its national policy in order to ensure equality of human rights and freedoms regardless of race, nationality, language, religion or belief, and provide appropriate government funding for related activities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.222
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recognize in law people of African descent as a minority group, in order to better take into account their needs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.192
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement additional measures to protect women against violence and gender-based discrimination, including by promoting security staff training on gender issues and countering negative images and stereotyped portrayals of ethnic minority women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Minority rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the National Action Plan against Racism is fully implemented with a view to eliminate structural and institutional racial discrimination, including those against people of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- National action plan
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate discriminatory legislation and practices in health-care and education systems and in the labour market that discriminate and marginalize migrants and minorities and other specific groups in need of protection
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
129.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop policies aimed at preventing the marginalization of inhabitants in rural areas, minority ethnic groups, nomadic populations, particularly women and girls, and ensure their access to water, education and health care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Right to water and sanitation
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.306
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a national mechanism to regularly monitor the impact of social and economic policies on disadvantaged groups of women such as women of African descent, elderly women, rural women and women with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Minority rights
- Rights for older people
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In follow up to the recommendations in paragraphs 116.28 and 116.111 of the report from the second cycle (A/HRC/24/6), increase investments in the field of public education for Afrodescendent minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- UPR process
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement and strengthen programmes to reduce maternal mortality, with emphasis on the rural population, indigenous peoples and people of African descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a comprehensive protection system for human rights defenders, especially for Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities, backed by public statements that promote the role of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish mechanisms to obtain disaggregated data on ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, making it possible to design effective public policies that are non-discriminatory and meet the needs of marginalized population groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Discrimination
- Minority rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Comprehensively review the legislation in order to recognize gender equality and the protection of indigenous people and ethnic minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish effective protection against discrimination, harassment and violence against sexual minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Minority rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Launch a road map with a clear timeline for the speedy, proper and full implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
142.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Preserve and protect the cultural and archaeological heritage in its jurisdiction, without altering their cultural and ethnic identity, including the medieval Armenian cemetery in Julfa
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020