N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With respect to follow-up to the universal periodic review, Niger intends to take the following measures: the organization of a national workshop to report back on the conduct of the review, the preparation of an internal assessment of follow-up, the drafting and submission of a midterm report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of the universal periodic review recommendations, and the drafting of a human rights action plan by the inter-ministerial committee. As with the reparation of the universal periodic review, interested stakeholders (the National Commission on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and civil society) will be involved in this process.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- National Human Rights Institution
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Niger reaffirms its commitment to inviting special rapporteurs to visit the country whenever necessary.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Faced with these challenges, Niger is committed to: (a) Promoting good governance through transparent conduct of public affairs, (b) Catching up on its reporting obligations, (c) Strengthening capacity to follow up on treaty body and universal periodic review recommendations, (d) Regulating the informal sector, (e) Combating illiteracy, (f) Stepping up awareness-raising and training for women in leadership skills, (g) Continuing efforts to amend the Quota Act, (h) Adopting the charter on access to information, (i) Allocating more resources to the education sector, (j) Integrating human rights education into curricula at all levels of the education system, (k) Continuing the implementation of the decent work country programme with ILO, (l) Formulating a national plan of action to combat trafficking, in accordance with the subregional action plan of the Economic Community of West African States, (m) Adopting the draft ordinance on trafficking in persons, (n) Bringing justice closer to the public through the creation of new courts, (o) Establishing a body specialized in prison administration and human rights, (p) Adopting incentives for health personnel to specialize in certain fields and to help them practise, (q) Improving access to medicine, (r) Strengthening existing measures through the setting up of food security stocks, (s) Developing research and modernizing the agricultural and livestock sector in order to improve productivity, (t) Encouraging investment in the water industry to make better use of Niger's potential water resources, (u) Extending the supply of safe drinking water for the population and increasing the number of surface reservoirs for the irrigation of off-season crops, (v) Continuing the fight against desertification, (w) Implementing the national housing policy, (x) Formulating a national child protection policy, (y) Implementing the national gender policy and raising public awareness of violence against women, (z) Continuing efforts to adopt the personal status code, (aa) Formulating and implementing a national human rights plan, (bb) Establishing a national human rights commission in accordance with the Paris Principles, (cc) Creating a directorate for juvenile judicial protection, (dd) Establishing a safe drinking water supply system in all rural villages.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
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