88.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider adopting national policies to protect the rights of older women and of women and girls with disabilities, as well as establishing mechanisms to safeguard them from discrimination, violence and abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to comprehensively address the issue of corporal punishment of children, in particular in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures that specifically prohibit corporal punishment of boys and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- 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
- May 29, 2022
88.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement measures to ensure that children in vulnerable areas are not marginalized
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out the necessary legislative adjustments to explicitly repeal the right to inflict corporal punishment and the sentence of life imprisonment for persons under 18 years of age, in accordance with international human rights standards and target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Right to development
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider undertaking the necessary legislative reforms to prohibit corporal punishment inflicted on children, and continue to promote the use of positive discipline
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- 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
- May 29, 2022
88.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Explicitly repeal the common-law right to punish children and prohibit all corporal punishment enacted in all settings where adults have authority over children, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to strengthen the legislative framework for child protection and children’s justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent mechanism for monitoring children’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek to conduct a comprehensive assessment of budgetary needs for children, and increase the allocation of financial means to social sectors, education and health to an adequate level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.140
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening the institutions responsible for the education and protection of children, particularly those with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen measures intended to eliminate all forms of violence and ill-treatment of girls and women, including the development of programmes and the provision of training for law enforcement officers on the areas of domestic violence and sexual violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop, adopt and implement, in a consultative manner, a national gender policy with measures for the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence against all women, girls, men and boys, regardless of legal or migratory status, nationality, gender identity or sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.136
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, enshrine gender equality and support women’s empowerment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up the fight against gender-based violence and sexual violence, and classify marital rape as a crime in the Sexual Offences Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures to prevent violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, also through awareness-raising campaigns and increased support to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all the necessary measures to strengthen the fight against gender- based violence, and in particular sexual violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to combat discrimination and violence against women and children, and on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.130
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat discrimination against women and girls, in particular by defining policies, with an intersectional approach, to promote the visibility of this category in the country’s public and political decision-making spaces, as well as in the scientific areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize the incorporation into its legislation of a comprehensive definition of discrimination against women and girls in line with article 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, that covers both direct and indirect discrimination and that recognizes intersectional forms of discrimination, in accordance with the comments received from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty Bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further increase investment in education and improve the enrolment rate of children in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to provide adequate resources towards the initiatives that have started to help teenage mothers finish their secondary school education, in classes that can accommodate the unique challenges of being a young single mother
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive sexuality education, with a view to preventing teenage pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.114
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive sexuality education, with a view to preventing teenage pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Integrate children with disabilities in regular schools by giving particular attention to the training of specialists for children with intellectual and psychological disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy and expand its admitted grounds, particularly in cases of sexual abuse or high-risk pregnancies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its legislation in order to legalize the termination of pregnancies in cases of risk to the life of the pregnant woman, rape, incest and severe impairment of the fetus
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Marriage Act to remove exceptions that allow marriage for those under the age of 18 years
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022