128.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression, including the protection of civil society and academia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
140.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that journalists and human rights defenders can carry out their work in an enabling environment, without fear of being victims of acts of intimidation or reprisal
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
31.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take urgent measures to guarantee full respect for the rights to freedom of expression and of the press
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
125.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take immediate measures to ensure that civil society organizations, human rights defenders and journalists can operate in a safe environment and free from acts of intimidation or reprisals, and that all such complaints are duly investigated, including through the revision of the restrictive provisions of the Penal Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
119.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to HIV/AIDS education programmes in secondary schools, in order to strengthen the prevention of this disease and combat stigma and discrimination, paying special attention to adolescents who are in situations of greater vulnerability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
119.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to foster a safe and enabling environment for civil society activities, free from acts of intimidation and reprisals, including by removing measures that unjustifiably restrict the legal registration of non- governmental organizations and the exercise of the rights to freedom of association and expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
51.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make efforts to guarantee universal access to health services, including sexual and reproductive health, including for regular and irregular migrant workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
147.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen HIV-prevention programmes aimed at young people and make efforts to expand their coverage, ensuring that health services and information on the subject are accessible throughout the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
97.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to abolish the death penalty through the revision of the Military Penal Code and consolidate this commitment through the prompt ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.237
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to ensure the full and rapid implementation of the comprehensive action plan on children and armed conflict, including through the allocation of adequate financial and human resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
107.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen Samoa’s commitment to the principle of non- discrimination, including through the adoption of legislation aimed at prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
127.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that all children, including those who are in the most vulnerable situations, such as Roma and children with disabilities, can enjoy their right to inclusive and quality education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
138.68
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to complete the reform of the childcare system, increasing investment in social services to prevent unnecessary family separations, and providing quality alternative care options, prioritizing family- based solutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the prompt ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.217
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen existing policies and measures at the national level to protect the human rights of all children in conditions of vulnerability, including children living in poverty and migrant and refugee-seeking children, equipping them with sufficient resources, and ensuring that they are guided by a comprehensive assessment of the best interests of the child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to guarantee the protection of human rights defenders, including those who carry out humanitarian work with refugees and migrants
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure that those belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities are effectively protected against any form of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
159.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the independence of the transitional justice commissions, providing them with resources to fulfil their mandates
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
32.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote a safe environment for human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers to carry out their work safely and free from acts of intimidation, harassment or retaliation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
150.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate the parliamentary discussion for a prompt ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
134.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and ensure the enjoyment of the right to the highest attainable standard of health for all people by ensuring access to health-care services and comprehensive sexuality education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
146.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote policies and measures to mitigate the impact of climate change on the human rights of persons belonging to vulnerable groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
31.315
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the implementation of provisions of the new Constitution aimed at reinforcing the enjoyment of the rights of all women and continue making progress through concrete policies and measures to guarantee equal rights between women and men
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to guarantee respect for the prohibition of the dismissal of pregnant women from the workplace and for the implementation of the right to paid maternity leave in all sectors of the economy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
146.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make greater efforts to combat poverty, with a gender approach, in particular taking into account the high rate of poverty among women in rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
146.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the approval of the necessary legal framework to ensure that the Office of the Ombudsman is effectively aligned with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make greater efforts to allocate sufficient resources to the Truth Commission, guaranteeing the independent investigation of human rights violations that occurred during the dictatorship, using a human rights-based approach that keeps the victims at the centre
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote the access of same-sex couples to sexual and reproductive health programmes, ensuring in particular the availability of specific health services for trans persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures aimed at combating and eliminating violence against women and girls, in particular sexual violence and sexual and labour exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.89
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make efforts to fully implement the principle enshrined in the Constitution regarding free primary education for all children in the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020