136.8.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
136.8.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- UPR process
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
136.254
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve and strengthen the rights of persons with disabilities, especially women and girls with disabilities, economically, politically and socially by establishing policies and concrete actions at the central and local levels
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- ESC rights - general
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.253
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a system to identify and assess the educational needs of children with disabilities, and build institutionalized capacity to assist and provide them with inclusive education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.248
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures towards the rehabilitation and reintegration, rather than detention, of children formerly associated with armed groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.247
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to ensure the protection of the rights of the child, including through access to education for all and the prevention of sexual abuse and child recruitment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.246
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt and implement a national action plan to end child marriage, and adopt the necessary legal and regulatory measures to ensure consistent implementation at the central and local levels of laws on violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.245
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat effectively the recruitment of child soldiers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.244
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the protection of the rights of all children without discrimination, and take steps to bring an end to child marriage by promptly implementing the national action plan on child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.243
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate the process of bringing the law on family protection amending the age of marriage into accordance with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.242
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measurable steps to prevent and end the recruitment of children and to ensure the accountability of all perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.241
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to prevent and combat child, early and forced marriage, and take appropriate measures to fight all forms of violence against children and to promote their rights, including the right to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.240
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to strengthen child rights by promptly and thoroughly investigating all allegations of forced marriage, the practice of bacha bazi, or any other form of sexual exploitation of children, and appropriately prosecuting all those found responsible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.238
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that forced and early marriages of girls are prohibited, that those responsible are prosecuted and punished and that victims are rehabilitated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.237
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement safeguards to prevent the sexual exploitation and abuse of boys, known as bacha bazi, including by Afghan national security forces, and hold those responsible accountable, including through prosecution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.236
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.235
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to ensure a framework policy for the protection of the rights of the child in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.234
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to prevent and combat violence against women and girls in all sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.233
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect the rights of the child, including girls, notably in the area of access to education and protection against all types of violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.232
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue setting up adequate strategies to protect the rights of children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.231
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take appropriate measures to ensure birth registration of all children born in the country, in order to reduce the risk of statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.230
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abide by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Afghan child protection policy, notably by ending the unlawful recruitment and use of children in armed conflict
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.229
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set the legal age for girls to marry at 18 years, and ensure that the law is effectively enforced, including by investigating and prosecuting cases of child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.228
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Effectively promote and promptly implement the 2017 national action plan to eliminate early and child marriage, in full consultation with civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.227
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take the necessary measures to strengthen the rights of children, including with regard to access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.220
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take extra measures to prevent and combat domestic violence and to take care of abandoned children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.219
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt all necessary legal and regulatory measures to eliminate violence and discrimination against girls and women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.218
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate discrimination and violence against women and children, also through education on human rights and by raising awareness of the general public
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.217
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the law on the elimination of violence against women and the 2018 Penal Code by ensuring that cases of violence against women and girls are appropriately investigated and prosecuted through the criminal justice system, and that judges and prosecutors are sufficiently resourced to do their jobs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.215
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the effective implementation of the elimination of violence against women law, and make continued efforts to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020