103.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reject calls to further liberalize abortion laws, while reaffirming and implementing laws and social programmes that promote family life, support single mothers and that protect the right to life of the unborn child in all circumstances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to life
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the health-care system and specifically provide further measures on infrastructure and resources for maternal health, including midwife training, with a focus on health care for mothers and babies through pregnancy and childbirth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.182
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the 2016 Law on Equality, Equity and Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.181
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee women’s access to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.170
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt necessary measures to prevent women from being punished for having suffered obstetric complications or emergencies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove health professionals’ and public officials’ obligation to report women to the police based on a suspicion of abortion and suspend any criminal investigations into suspected abortions based on these reports
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.168
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt the necessary legislative measures to prevent women from being criminalized for experiencing miscarriage and to ensure that women do not face disproportionate sanctions due to obstetric emergencies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.167
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End detention of women who are wrongfully convicted for homicide after having suffered a miscarriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.166
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the unjust imprisonment of women who have had obstetric emergencies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.164
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion, especially in cases of rape or in risky pregnancies for the mother, and promote necessary measures so that judicial authorities respect in this area the principle of presumption of innocence and the right to due process
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.162
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion and ensure that safe and legal abortion services are available for those women and girls whose pregnancy is a result of rape or whose lives or health are put at risk, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its anti-abortion legislation to remove the obligation of health professionals and public officials to report women to the police based on a suspicion of abortion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.159
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legalize abortion, if not completely, at least in cases of incest and rape, and fetal impairment, and in cases in which the mother’s life or health is in danger, bringing the law in line with several human rights conventions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion, at least in those cases that were allowed in legislation until 1998, namely, when there is a risk to the health or life of the mother, when the fetus has serious congenital deformations, and when the pregnancy results from rape or sexual abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion, and adopt measures to avoid the incarceration of women as a result of obstetric emergencies and miscarriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee access to safe and legal abortion, by repealing laws criminalizing abortion as a first step
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation on abortion that is in line with international human rights obligations, taking into account indicators such as medical risks, rape and incest, and ensure improved access to appropriate methods of contraception and comprehensive sexuality education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide financial resources for the comprehensive approach to combating violence against women, to follow up on the 67 recommendations made to El Salvador on women’s rights in the first two cycles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- UPR process
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate sufficient human and financial resources to institutions mandated to prevent gender-based violence, to bring more perpetrators to justice and assist more victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate all reports of sexual violence against women and girls and prosecute and punish perpetrators of such acts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement existing legislation on the protection of women against all forms of violence and discrimination, strengthen the efforts to fight domestic violence and decriminalize abortion when the life of the mother is at risk and/or the pregnancy is the result of rape
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the budget and quality in education, ensure adequate infrastructure, eliminate gender gaps and gaps between rural and urban areas, eradicate strong illiteracy, and combat more effectively school dropout
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt immediate measures to provide for sexual and reproductive health and rights for women in El Salvador, particularly in areas with high rates of sexual violence, including comprehensive sexuality education and access to safe and effective contraceptive methods
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct a comprehensive analysis of access to reproductive health services and contraception, and put in place a strategy aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a medical performance protocol to address cases of women facing obstetric emergencies, that includes a clause on professional confidentiality bringing security to medical personnel in order for them to practise all necessary medical procedures to protect the life and health of women without being prosecuted criminally
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee women’s sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, by amending legislation on abortion, in a transparent consultation process that includes civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop health-care programmes, prioritizing the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, that include access to comprehensive sexuality education as well as access to contraception, with particular attention to zones of high vulnerability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national action plan to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls, particularly by gangs, which includes increased institutional capacity for the identification and support of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Public security
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.92
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a comprehensive strategy and plan of action to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls, with special focus on gang-related victimization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Public security
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.89
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a comprehensive strategy and action plan to prevent and combat the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls, with a particular focus on victims of gang violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020