144.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide more training and resources to schools and teachers so that they are better equipped to meet the needs of children with disabilities and children affected by leprosy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to combat child abuse and exploitation, including by raising the level of birth registration, which would facilitate the full implementation of the Child Protection Act (2015)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to promote the full enjoyment of the rights of children, especially the right to education, prevent child, early and forced marriage and raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish any exceptions to 18 years as the minimum age of marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national gender policy and an action plan endowed with sufficient resources to combat sexual and gender-based violence and guarantee the rights of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate acts of gender-based violence, including domestic violence and sexual violence, and prosecute and punish the perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Thoroughly investigate acts of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence and sorcery-related violence, and prosecute perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase funding and resources to prevent and respond to gender- based violence, including training for police to identify and investigate cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively enforce the provisions of the Family Protection Act to protect women and children from violence within the family and from violence in government facilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.134
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enforce measures provided in the Family Protection Act to tackle sexual and physical violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement recommendations emanating from the first report to parliament on the inquiry into gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea and advance the implementation of the sorcery accusation-related violence national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.125
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement practical measures intended to improve the political representation of women at both the national and local levels
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee full, equal and effective representation and the participation of women at all levels of decision-making by amending the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify its efforts to improve the rate of school attendance across the country and ensure access to education for all, including for children with disabilities, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to bring back children who dropped out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensure access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize, adopt and implement the national strategy on out-of-school children, especially children in remote and rural communities, to guarantee the right to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national strategy on out-of-school children, particularly in remote and rural communities, to ensure access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a coherent strategy to ensure universal access to education, as well as to provide formal education to both girls and boys, as one of the means of poverty alleviation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention against Discrimination in Education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Right to education
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion and ensure universal and safe access to abortion and other sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase health-care funding and facilities, even in rural areas, to provide medical assistance to people living with HIV
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce legislation on access to information that is in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate effectively all acts of the security forces alleged to relate to torture, ill-treatment, extrajudicial killings and sexual violence and prosecute and punish perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate and promptly prosecute police officers who commit criminal offences, such as torture, sexual violence and prohibited forms of ill- treatment, including the excessive use of force
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.92
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate reports of mistreatment by the police, including torture, the excessive use of force, arbitrary or unlawful detention and killings and sexual violence, and prosecute perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.90
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish free legal aid offices across the 22 provinces of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.89
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the Criminal Code and legislation to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years or older, in accordance with international human rights standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the age of criminal responsibility
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an immediate moratorium on the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- May 29, 2022