115.8.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- 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
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
115.8.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to 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
- May 1, 2020
116.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all feasible measures to protect children from recruitment by State-allied and non-State armed groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
116.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately demobilize all children being used by the government- supported militias
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
116.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble its efforts to put an end to traditional and harmful practices, such as child and forced marriage, polygamy, humiliating and degrading practices and forced feeding
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the minimum age for marriage of girls to 18 years of age, in line with the Maputo Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Align the minimum age of marriage for girls with international standards to 18 as opposed to 16, in order to eradicate early and forced marriage for girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.52
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Raise the minimum age of marriage for girls to 18 years, without exception, in line with the Maputo Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the Persons and Family Code to bring it into line with the constitutional prohibition of gender-based discrimination, including by granting equal succession rights to women and girls and raising the minimum age of marriage for girls to 18 years
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend existing legislation to raise the minimum age of consent for marriage to 18 years for women, as provided for in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a legal mechanism to combat child and early marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish the same age of marriage for boys and girls as 18, and strengthen efforts aimed at ending child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set the minimum age of marriage at 21 for boys and girls and raise public awareness of this law, in particular among women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt criminal laws explicitly prohibiting female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation to ban all forms of genital mutilation and ensure that this practice be punished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation to prohibit all forms of female genital mutilation and cutting
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt criminal laws prohibiting all forms of female genital mutilation and cutting and initiate a public debate addressing harmful traditional practices
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate the process of adopting a draft law against gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.41
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the enactment and implementation of legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation, in addition to the design of public policies and concrete actions aimed at fully eradicating this practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce legislation to ban female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate legislative measures leading to a strict prohibition and punishment of female genital mutilation and early marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize the draft law prohibiting and punishing female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation outlawing all forms of the traditional practice of female genital mutilation and finalize the review of the Criminal Code in order to include provisions punishing violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Deepen the measures to develop a comprehensive plan against the harmful cultural practices and traditions that persist against women, in particular by adopting a law that prohibits female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize the bill that prohibits the practice of female genital mutilation, which can concern up to 90 per cent of girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the necessary measures to prohibit any form of female genital mutilation, in accordance with the recommendations formulated by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child; and implement actions to eliminate any other form of discrimination based on gender or violent traditional practices against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation outlawing all forms of gender-based violence, including the traditional practice of female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt, before the next universal periodic review cycle, a legislative ban on female genital mutilation and domestic violence and conduct awareness- raising campaigns in order to eliminate these forms of violence in practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
115.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls that remain in the Persons and Family Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020