145.7
- State under Review
- Recommendation
To continuing to improve services delivered to Indigenous Peoples — such as education, clean water, housing, and health services. We aim to achieve this through: the full implementation of Jordan’s Principle to ensure that First Nations children receive the same health and social services and supports as other Canadian children; the full implementation of all the orders of the Canadian Human Rights and the co-development transformation of the delivery of Indigenous child welfare.
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Right to education
- Right to water and sanitation
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
For unaccompanied children, the United States is fully committed to holding children only for the shortest amount of time necessary to complete immigration processing and to treating the children with dignity and respect during their time in United States custody.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
As per the Constitution of the Maldives, everyone has the right to education without discrimination of any kind. The Maldives offers free education up to higher secondary level, and free local and international exams to all children, adopting a policy of "No Child Left Behind". This policy includes catering for children with special education needs, and teaching civic education, life skills and human rights, with a view to building a productive, respectful, and responsible future generation. The Government is committed to accelerate the ratification process of UNESCO convention against discrimination in Education. As the Constitution and regulations stand, no discrimination exists. Government is taking efforts to make education more accessible to vulnerable groups in society, like persons with disabilities, children of poor families
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government of Maldives is committed to improving the domestic legislative framework to safeguard the rights of vulnerable groups in the society. Ensuring the protection of the rights of the children is a key priority of the Maldives, and the new Child Rights Bill in the legislative agenda of the Government, would comply with the Maldives international obligations under CRC. However, ratification of the additional protocols burdens the work of the State. The Government however, reiterates its commitment to promoting the rights of children, and would focus on establishing such procedures.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to ensuring that access to medical services is ensured, through the availability of General Practitioner Services throughout Maldives. In this regard, work is underway to develop an electronic GP registration and Patient Record Archiving System, which would facilitate in-patient identification, birth and death registration, as well as substantiate access to healthcare and universal health coverage. Birth registration has been made possible, for everyone across the country since 1960s.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government was committed to offering comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights services in tandem with international, regional and national policies. The delegation stated that there had been a decline of more than 50 per cent in child mortality.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Government is committed to offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights services in tandem with the international, regional and national policies such as the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action, ICPD 10, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), African Union Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) Policy Guidelines, the African Union Health Strategy, the Southern Africa Development Community Health Strategy, and the Maputo Plan of Action. Other national policies are the Malawi Reproductive Health Strategy 2006-2010, the Malawi Reproductive Health Service Delivery Guidelines, the Road Map for Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality and Morbidity in Malawi, the Malawi Accelerated Child Survival and Development Strategy, the National Gender Policy, and the Malawi Population Policy.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Children's Law addresses child labour and exploitation, as does the Anti-Human Trafficking Act. In 2014, Liberia also launched a national policy to fight human trafficking. Liberia is committed to abolishing the worst forms of child labour
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation of Bulgaria reiterated the commitment of the Government to continue the judicial reforms and strengthen the juvenile justice system in line with international standards. The delegation reported on ongoing measures to strengthen legislation on juvenile justice.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Child and maternal mortality are the key indicators for the country's level of development as they reveal the state of quality of health of health services and health programmes. Lesotho will reduce child and maternal mortality by at least 25 percent by 2017.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Government is committed to addressing issues for people with disabilities, for example by providing easy access through the Class Rehabilitation Program that includes ramp access for children with disabilities.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
On 7 November 2013, BiH became the 6th member state of the CoE to ratify the CoE Istanbul Convention. Accordingly, BiH committed itself to undertake legislative and other measures to ensure the legal, institutional and organisational framework for the prevention of violence against women, protection of victims of violence and punishing perpetrators of violence. The Strategy for implementation of the CoE Istanbul Convention was developed and some entity strategies and action plans were also developed and implemented to combat domestic violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopting legislation on alternative measures to imprisonment for the administration of justice for juveniles
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Regarding measures related to sexual exploitation of minors, Kazakhstan specified an ongoing commitment to improve legislation and strengthen provisions, and cited an increase to the age of criminal liability
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With reference to international instruments, San Marino recognized the importance of treaties that contain individual complaint mechanisms and was committed to addressing reporting delays and to acceding to OP-ICESCR, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, and to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention against Discrimination in Education.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
An inter-institutional board has been set up to address the issue of minors living in prisons and efforts are being made to move them out gradually. A commitment has been made to establish reception centres for such minors in order to provide them with the best possible living conditions
- Recommending State
- Session
- 20 - October 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The Portuguese Government is strongly committed to ensuring that all children who live in the Portuguese territory enjoy the right to quality education.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation stated that Brunei intended to withdraw its reservations to Article 20, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) relating to the protection of a child without a family, and Article 21 (a) on adoption, and that it was working towards ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC).
- Recommending State
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Bhutan is committed to ensuring that all children have access to free primary education.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 19 - May 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In the coming years, the Government will focus on dealing with child mortality rate, especially the newborns, increasing the effectiveness of vaccination, National Nutrition Program, National Program on Reproductive Health and the National Program on HIV/AIDS.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to develop a criminal responsibility system that respects the rights of children, with an emphasis on the promotion of educational measures and the gradual decrease in leisure activities
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue the adoption of legislative and administrative measures to promote the social integration of children in conflict with the law, in particular the implementation of a crime policy that takes account of the best interests of the child, effective use of alternative measures to pretrial detention and the strengthening of a special juvenile jurisdiction
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continuing to implement the project "Uruguay, united in putting an end to violence against women, children and adolescents" 2012-2014
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implementing the 11 steps towards a country free of domestic violence as part of the strategy for life and living together to which the Government has committed itself
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish special procedures for the review and, where appropriate, annulment of adoptions or placements that originated in an enforced disappearance, in accordance with the best interests of the child and, if the child is capable of forming their own views, recognize their right to be heard
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure 100 per cent access to birth registration. Eliminate the late enrolment fine as an incentive for registration
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure universal access to education for 4- and 5-year-old children and increase coverage for 3-year-old children. Ensure universal access to secondary education and increase completion rates in upper secondary education
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand and improve the early childhood education provision
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish support systems to safeguard the rights of child and adolescent victims of commercial sexual exploitation, at the national level, for the period 2015-2020
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reduce child mortality and malnutrition to achieve the 2015 national Millennium Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Session
- 18 - January 2014
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Right to food
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019