96.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement existing laws protecting the rights of migrant workers, especially any discrimination against migrant women and children, particularly in the areas of education, housing and access to health care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue effective measures to ensure that children with disabilities have access to special health care, including early detection and intervention programmes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.130
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to combat discrimination against migrant children and children with disabilities. Existing laws prohibiting discrimination should be fully implemented, including by intensifying awareness campaigns aimed at combating negative social attitudes towards these children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Discrimination
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Call on international technical assistance to review the legal framework in respect of certain traditional social attitudes and, in particular, corporal punishment, with a view to follow up on paragraph 14 of the recommendations from the first cycle and paragraphs 102.80, 102.81, 102.82, 102.83, 102.84, 102.85 and 102.86 of those from the second cycle
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to combat violence against children, which is a worrying phenomenon in Barbados, in particular by providing the Child Care Board with additional financial and human resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.125
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Outlaw the use of corporal punishment, especially in criminal and educational settings, in accordance with international human rights standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to repeal all legislation allowing corporal punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to prohibit corporal punishment, especially at school
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement measures to prohibit corporal punishment as a disciplinary sanction in schools and at home
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures with a view to eliminate corporal punishment in all settings, in particular in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to address issues raised by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2017 with regard to the corporal punishment of children and continue its efforts to educate the population on the negative impact of such punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make statutory provision for the draft mandatory reporting protocol on child abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize legislation regarding the definition of a child, the administration of juvenile justice, violence against children and custody with the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the Family Conflict Intervention Unit of the Royal Barbados Police Force
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to combat all forms of violence against women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to strengthen the implementation of legislation that prohibits and penalizes abuse against women and children, as well as domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further promote gender equality and better protect the rights of women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Elaborate a clear, appropriate policy and/or measures for pregnant schoolgirls that allows them to remain in formal education, sit exams and then return to school after giving birth, including through the use of approaches, such as separate classes, that are aimed at breaking the cycles of poverty, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend national legislation to reflect the fact that any child born outside of Barbados to a Barbadian citizen is entitled to citizenship by descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its laws to ensure gender equality between Barbadian mothers and fathers with respect to their ability to transfer their nationality to their children in all circumstances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to prosecute human traffickers, including child sex traffickers, and identify and assist victims of this crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.78
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to fight against human trafficking and to protect its victims, in particular by providing support and assistance to women and girls trafficked for the purposes of prostitution and forced labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite the adoption of the Juvenile Justice Bill in order to, inter alia, outlaw the use of corporal punishment as a criminal sanction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.73
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Move forward with the enactment and implementation of the Juvenile Justice Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the age of criminal responsibility for all types of offences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.71
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to more than 11 years
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.70
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the age of criminal responsibility, in line with the recommendations made by the United Nations human rights mechanisms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider raising the age of criminal responsibility for children and to reverse the practice of trying persons aged 16 as adults
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts aimed at finalizing the various pending human rights- related legislation, including the draft national gender policy, the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill and the draft Juvenile Justice Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020