N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase women representation in Government to the 30 per cent guaranteed by the Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed finalizing drafting the special law to prevent and punish crimes of gender based violence in order to put an end and fight violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble its efforts to fight against violence against women and adopt a law on sexual and sexist violence and ensure its implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish the necessary mechanisms to put an end to violence against women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further fight all forms of violence against children and women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to enhance the treatment of children born in prison, as well as pregnant women prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the promulgation of equality laws, specially the revision of the Persons and Family Code, as well as the law on inheritance, matrimonial regimes and gifts and bequests
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put a special emphasis on gender equality, the effectiveness protection of children and the protection of victims of albinism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen and take the measures required to prevent and punish sexual violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further improve its efforts in regard to the measures on combating gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out appropriate and comprehensive measures to combat gender based violence and discrimination against vulnerable groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the implementation of the national gender policy and to establish the national gender council by providing appropriate resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify measures against acts of sexual violence against women and girls, and careful and effective treatment of alleged occurrence of extrajudicial executions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement follow up mechanisms of the UPR recommendations that allows verifying the implementation and impact of legislation and measures adopted to promote equal rights and non-discrimination for all citizens, in particular vulnerable groups such as: women, children, ethnic minorities, LGBTI community and persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- UPR process
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt and implement appropriate and efficient measures to address the high incidence of sexual violence against women and girls, including addressing the reported widespread impunity of perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote gender equality and adopt legislation to protect vulnerable groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts in order to eradicate from its legislation and practice all discriminatory laws and adopt a comprehensive strategy on awareness-raising campaigns to eliminate discrimination based on any grounds and against all vulnerable groups, particularly girls with respect to their inheritance and education rights, children born out of wedlock, albinos and those pertaining to the Batwa minority and taken into families under the kafala regime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the ratification of the Conventions and Protocols recommended during its 2008 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and already under way, including Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its Optional Protocol and Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP-CEDAW)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- UPR process
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement further measures to support victims of domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take decisive action to promote the rights of female citizens in order to achieve legal equality between men and women in terms of marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pay special attention to the health needs of women in rural areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further improve her policies and follow-up measures to foster justice, equality, tolerance as well as the full guarantee of human rights for the vulnerable groups, in particular women and foreign workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to harmonize traditional and statutory regulations, in order to further eliminate the exceptions to the principle of nondiscrimination on the grounds of sex, and strengthen the protection of women, especially of female domestic workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening protective measures and legal rights for women and children, including by giving women equal status to men in matters of divorce, inheritance and child custody
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure enhancement of the status of women in the Emirates' society by eliminating all forms of discrimination which may persist with regard to arrangements of divorce and the ways in which domestic violence is dealt with
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Undertake efforts to integrate in the Constitution, or other national legislation, the principle of equality between men and women and related regulations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women have full access to justice, obtain equal legal capacity and are treated equally in courts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take efforts in the area of promotion and protection of women's rights so as to ensure that women are fully integrated into the development dynamics of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Steadily implement the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 15 - January 2013
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate its efforts in women's empowerment and gender equality, including through the updated National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in the United Arab Emirates, 2013-2017
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019