159.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, introduce new legislation criminalizing torture, ill-treatment and enforced disappearance in all settings and ensure prompt, impartial and independent investigations into all relevant cases and bring perpetrators to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
150.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the anti-torture law and binding international treaties, including by operationalizing the national preventive mechanism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
139.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure proper investigation of all allegations of torture and other ill- treatment through an independent mechanism and immediately adopt strict safeguards to ensure that no statement obtained through torture can be used in the courts
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
147.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to combat impunity for acts of torture, including by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and ensuring that all confessions obtained through torture are inadmissible in court
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
26.8.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
101.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, establish a national preventive mechanism accordingly, and strengthen the investigation and prosecution of allegations of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
116.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and establish a national system that independently and regularly monitors and inspects all places of detention without prior notice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
149.21
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance its fight against impunity and torture including by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and establishing a national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Impunity
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
45.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an effective mechanism to prevent torture and humiliating treatment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
140.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure sufficient financing of the national preventive mechanism against torture to safeguard its independent functioning and to ensure compliance with international standards for the treatment of detainees in detention centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
121.10.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
38.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen protection against torture by, inter alia, ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and stepping up efforts to end impunity for all perpetrators of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Impunity
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.134
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the independence of the judiciary. Ensure the right to a fair trial for all without discrimination: in particular, reject evidence obtained by torture, and ensure that all arrests are subject to judicial oversight without exception
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create a comprehensive national strategy to systematically prevent and eliminate torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Eliminate practices of arbitrary detention and incommunicado detention. Ensure accountability of security staff for any acts of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Become a State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Allow, without delay, visits of the representatives of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, and issue a standing invitation to the thematic special procedures of the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Enforced disappearances
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Special procedures
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
134.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review its existing national security and counter-terrorism laws in order to bring its legislation into conformity with the Convention against Torture and other international standards, and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen its national legislation with respect to the prevention of torture and ill-treatment and the elimination of the practice of whipping and caning
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set a clear time frame for the ratification, without reservation, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, all other core international human rights treaties including their optional protocols, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
137.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Support more effective implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture, submit its pending reports to the Committee against Torture, accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish its national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 2, 2020
152.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 28 - November 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish its national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
141.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify, before the next universal periodic review cycle, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or degrading Treatment or Punishment, and establish a national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
139.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review and amend its national legislation that discriminates against women, and challenge the social acceptability of violence against women and practices harmful to women and girls, such as female genital mutilation and early and forced 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
- Sep 26, 2019
161.197
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the enforcement of the legal provisions prohibiting harmful and discriminatory practices against women and girls, in particular child marriages, dowry-related murders and honour killings, and ensure that all women, without discrimination, have access to public services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
161.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify, before the next universal periodic review cycle, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure accountability for perpetrators of torture and access by victims of torture to justice, redress and rehabilitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.5.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify before the next universal periodic review cycle the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 26 - November 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and effectively implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- International instruments
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the practice of forced detention of dissenters in the so-called "reeducation camps" and investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment therein
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism accordingly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish a national preventive mechanism accordingly, and ensure that prompt, thorough and impartial investigations are carried out into all allegations of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019