128.139
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create a specialized framework for identifying and assisting child victims of human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
128.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce legal safeguards to make the Media Council more pluralistic and free from political interference
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
128.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal discriminatory legislation, including the 2020 amendments restricting adoptions for same-sex couples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
131.187
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact and implement laws to prohibit and prevent sexual and gender- based violence, and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
131.136
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to fund and tighten measures around anti-trafficking laws, including by establishing and implementing clear national guidelines for first responders on identifying and screening victims, to protect victims from being physically, emotionally or sexually exploited
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
131.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that there are sufficient numbers of properly trained police officers in prisons and detention facilities, and bring prison conditions in line with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
141.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the recommendations in the 2018 election observers’ reports
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
140.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the recommendations in the Motlanthe commission of inquiry report
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
139.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Align the Marriage Act with the Constitution to criminalize child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
31.298
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, including maternal and newborn health care and safe abortions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
31.246
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take urgent steps to end forced labour, sexual exploitation and human trafficking in the Arco Minero del Orinoco
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
31.234
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respect political parties’ independence, lift arbitrary disqualifications of dissident leaders and cease to override Venezuelans’ will through court decisions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
125.101
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct a full and transparent independent investigation into the killings in Kampala in November 2020, bringing those responsible to account
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
125.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Working with civil society, reform the working practices of the Non- Governmental Organization Bureau to guarantee an open, accountable and vibrant civic space, and publish the details of those reforms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
125.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), of the International Labour Organization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
109.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a road map to accelerate the development of national refugee legislation to incorporate international commitments into domestic law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
109.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete steps to strengthen the protection mechanisms and the emergency and long-term support services for all suspected victims of modern slavery, including those from vulnerable migrant communities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
109.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
119.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a comprehensive strategy to tackle child abuse and criminalize contemporary forms of slavery including human trafficking, forced labour and forced marriage, in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
119.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all allegations of arbitrary arrest, detention and torture are promptly, impartially and thoroughly investigated and perpetrators brought to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
119.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize same-sex consensual relations to protect the human rights of all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
116.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate sufficient resources to tackle the issue of gender-based violence, to enable the delivery of gender-based violence commitments, including responding to gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring the provision of core services to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
52.82
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the protection of civic space and human rights defenders, including youth, members of civil society, lawyers, media and academics, so that they can operate freely and fully exercise the rights to freedom of expression, including online, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
51.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a national referral mechanism, which adopts a victim- centred approach, and ensure that national guidelines for victim identification and screening are uniformly implemented
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
51.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
147.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Media Services Act, the Political Parties Act and related legislation to ensure freedom of expression and assembly are protected
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
147.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End illegal pretrial detention which contravenes constitutional guarantees and the internationally recognized right to a fair trial
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
145.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the provisions of the 2008 anti-trafficking law as outlined in the implementing regulations and the national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
123.221
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize child, early and forced marriage as a distinct offence in national legislation, in line with international standards, and provide ongoing support to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
123.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend legislation which undermines the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, and ensure that media workers can operate freely, both online and offline, through legal protections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
123.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to end discrimination on the basis on gender identity and sexual orientation, and end the practice of maintaining lists of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
97.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek training for law enforcement and judicial officers to ensure accountability for gender-based violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities
- Recommending State
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
97.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enforce legislation and provide adequate resources and training for all officials in the criminal justice system to effectively investigate and prosecute modern slavery cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
97.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive measures to address concerns of mistreatment by police, including the use of unnecessary force during arrests and beatings while in detention, this includes stopping the police from using violence or committing demeaning acts on persons found violating government curfew orders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.236
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement its action plan to prevent grave violations against children, including by ending the recruitment of child soldiers, helping the social reintegration of those recruited and increasing awareness of modern slavery among the authorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.162
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect civilians, journalists, civil society actors and humanitarian workers from harm and uphold the freedoms of assembly and expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- International humanitarian law
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
113.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Engage and cooperate fully with the international community, including the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan of the United Nations, so that it can advise partners on how they can best support the human rights priorities of South Sudan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
107.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the Mental Health Act of 2007 to ensure it fully complies with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and ensure it is enforced by providing adequate resources and training
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
107.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Protocol of 2014 to the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) before its next review
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to prevent and respond to gender-based violence against women and girls by continuing to effectively implement the District Development Plan from 2017 and the findings from the Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development awareness programme in January 2021 on gender-based violence and alcohol abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all perpetrators of abuse towards women and girls are held to account, and implement capacity-building training for police officers and other law enforcement officials in gender-based violence and sexual abuse reporting
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Education Act to explicitly allow for retention and re- integration of school-aged mothers and pregnant girls into the formal education system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
81.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act of 2011 to ensure there are proportionate penalties for all modern slavery-related crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase funding and resources to prevent and respond to gender- based violence, including training for police to identify and investigate cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop policies and practices to increase the participation of women and girls in society and political life and in decision-making processes on issues that affect them
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
127.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the right to freedom of expression by ensuring the media regulator and competition authority function correctly and objectively, and by ensuring that the state broadcaster, Teleradio Moldova, provides space and a platform for an objective, balanced, national conversation on political issues by all
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
127.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Proactively demonstrate commitment to human rights and encourage greater awareness of, and support for, universal human rights throughout Moldova, including in the Transnistrian region
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
127.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
138.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
137.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase their efforts to prevent trafficking and identify modern slavery victims, including by increasing training on the use of the national referral mechanism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
137.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate hate crimes on the basis of disability, transgender identity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation, including towards national minorities, by ensuring adequate funding and training for officials and ensuring victims can easily report such crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.175
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.136
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national action plan to prevent and combat all forms of modern slavery, including a budget, responsibilities and time frame, and reinstate a dedicated anti-trafficking unit
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize and fully implement the national action plan against racism, informed by the principles of participation, non-discrimination, diversity and intersectionality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.160
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Build upon the 2021 Human Slavery Act by increasing training for police, prosecutors and judges on investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of modern slavery offences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Other
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.39
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce a criminal law provision that expressly considers racist motivation of an offence as an aggravating circumstance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
121.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 40 - November 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.215
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that allegations of forcible eviction of irregular migrants from its territory without due process are credibly investigated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate efforts to implement its 2019 national action plan to combat trafficking in human beings and continue to provide training on the new national referral mechanism to all front-line responders and relevant officials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
130.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- 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
88.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation to address modern slavery and human trafficking, and expedite current cases by providing adequate resources and training for officials to effectively investigate and prosecute cases and protect victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Eliminate all forms of child labour as set out under the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention,1999 (No. 182) through the implementation of the national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
106.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the commitment made at the Nairobi Summit marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the outcome document of the International Conference on Population and Development to achieve zero unmet needs for family planning by 2030, and increase the prevalence of contraception from 41 to 50 per cent, as stated in the 2019–2022 national family planning strategic plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
104.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to eliminate human trafficking, including by improving the effectiveness of victim identification and support and improving efforts to investigate, prosecute and sentence traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
104.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation which will specifically prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
104.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
130.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national strategy or action plan to support implementation of target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for the eradication of forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030 and was agreed by all United Nations Member States in 2015
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
130.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that will specifically prohibit discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
130.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
159.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Harmonize the Foreign Employment Act and the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act to ensure consistency with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
159.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, thereby addressing the demands of victim groups, to ensure victims of conflict-era violations and abuses are meaningfully engaged in the transitional justice process
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Justice
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
159.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.101
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national action plan on human trafficking and modern slavery and allocate a fully-funded budget to the national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and uphold the right to free and independent media in Nauru, including by reviewing prohibitively high foreign journalist visa fees to enable foreign journalists to visit the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
86.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand education and awareness campaigns on the issue of human trafficking and gather more data and analysis of trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
86.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) in support of the 50 for Freedom campaign
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
86.27.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- 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
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
34.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the 1982 Citizenship Law and ensure the protection of the human and civil rights of the Rohingya and other disenfranchised groups as citizens of Myanmar
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the ILO Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
32.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
150.261
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Afford migrant workers full legal protections in line with Lebanon’s international commitments on forced labour and discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
150.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the criminal defamation provisions of the Penal Code, and reform article 317 of the Code to limit criminalization to incitement to discrimination, hostility and violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Other
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
150.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
148.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement all the recommendations of the recent election report of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as soon as possible to restore public confidence in democratic institutions and processes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
148.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
148.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
140.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
139.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Operationalize domestically the insights arising from its October conference on “Human Trafficking in Times of Corona”
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
139.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize developing a strategy against racism, xenophobia, radicalization and violent extremism, taking into account the views of civil society and underpinned by necessary legislation and budgetary resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
135.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Screen, identify and provide support to trafficking victims, including those held in government transit centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
135.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct transparent, credible and independent investigations into allegations of extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture, and bring perpetrators to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
134.62
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and enable journalists to work freely, without fear of retribution, and ensure that State authorities comply with the access to information law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
134.238
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide labour law protection for domestic workers and strengthen anti-trafficking legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
134.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the right to freedom of expression, assembly and association by amending the Penal Code and other laws such as the Press and Publications Law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
134.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
146.264
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the Closing the Gap strategy, while ensuring shared decision-making and genuine partnerships with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
146.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
146.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the ILO Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Aug 2, 2021
106.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the national Human Rights Committee complies with the Paris Principles on national human rights institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
106.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
106.13.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to/Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to combat modern slavery through training, improved coordination between law enforcement agencies, and prosecution of traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pass the Malawi Prison Bill into law and reduce overcrowding in prisons by increasing capacity and the use of non-custodial sentences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
122.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
138.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately lift restrictions on freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression, including on independent media and the Internet
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
138.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release those arbitrarily detained, and investigate all allegations of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, particularly related to people in detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
138.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations in the OSCE rapporteur’s report under the Moscow Mechanism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
116.70
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect freedom of expression by abolishing article 6.21 of the law on administrative offences
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
116.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen domestic legislation to ensure all forms of modern slavery are criminalized, including criminalizing human trafficking in line with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
116.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
103.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize resources for the identification of victims of trafficking, including internal trafficking, and more vigorously investigate and prosecute traffickers, including officials accused of complicity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
103.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Focus the response against sexual and gender-based violence on prevention, including by increasing the proportion of girls in education, and engagement with local actors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
103.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process for selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
148.220
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the full, equal and effective participation of women in conflict resolution and decision-making and tackle sexual and gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
148.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the exploitation of migrants and refugees in detention centres and work towards closing and transitioning away from the use of detention centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Detention
- Migrants
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
148.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Facilitate unfettered access for and cooperate fully with the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, throughout Libya
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Apr 23, 2021
26.300
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Clarify its approach to ensuring access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
26.221
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work with state and local government on best practice on the use of force by the police and on improving relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
26.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), of the International Labour Organization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Devote further resources to proactively investigating reports of forced adult and child labour in the construction, mining and agriculture sectors and bringing those responsible to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt, in consultation with civil society organizations, comprehensive legislation and policies against discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process for selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand and protect the space for civil society organizations to operate in order to promote social cohesion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen existing national legislation to ensure that all modern slavery crimes are fully criminalized in line with international conventions, including human trafficking, slavery as a stand-alone offence, child prostitution, forced marriage, and the involvement of children in armed conflict
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.55
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve effectiveness of victim identification and support for victims of human trafficking by developing victim-centred, trauma-informed procedures in law enforcement operations, investigations and criminal justice proceedings, and increase efforts to investigate, prosecute and convict traffickers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respond constructively to the anticipated government task force report on the long-term incarceration of mentally ill people in Jamaican prisons, and address the systematic failures identified by the Independent Commission on Investigations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Right to health
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.212
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary steps to ensure that the recent reforms to the Criminal Code of Honduras meet international human rights obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize steps to combat the widespread rape and sexual exploitation of women and girls by gangs. Build institutional capacity for the protection of victims by strengthening measures to proactively identify victims and refer them to appropriate support services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
137.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify training for law enforcement and the judiciary on the questioning of victims of human trafficking, in order to prevent further trauma, and to enable victims to participate in legal proceedings as reliable witnesses
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
137.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary steps to ensure a timely and efficient response to hate speech in public and on social media, particularly where vulnerable groups are targeted, including national minorities and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
137.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the support available to victims of modern slavery, facilitating their reintegration into society through provision of appropriate health care and legal and financial support, and paying particular attention to support for child victims, including children in care institutions, Roma children and unaccompanied foreign minors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Minority rights
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Criminal Code to widen the scope of the definition of hate crimes and speech to include sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
134.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
84.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend domestic legislation to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
84.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a multidisciplinary framework for the proactive identification of victims of trafficking for referral to assistance and support, involving law enforcement agencies, labour inspections, health-care staff, social workers and child protection authorities, with particular attention to at-risk sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
84.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
31.214
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen protections for and support to victims of all forms of human trafficking, regardless of nationality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
31.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release those detained for exercising their right to freedom of expression, including all journalists, activists and human rights defenders, and unblock news and social media websites
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
31.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement recommendations from the Committee against Torture to ensure access to medical assistance and family visits in prisons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
140.37
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review decrees limiting freedom of expression and association, particularly the Media Industry Development Decree, the Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree and the Public Order (Amendment) Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
140.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
146.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the mandate of the human rights ombudsman, ensuring compliance with the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
146.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
146.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), of the International Labour Organization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the political rights in the country by proceeding to a second round in the presidential elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respond to the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to establish a national preventive mechanism that enjoys complete financial and operational autonomy in the performance of its functions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend defamation legislation so that it is considered a civil, not criminal, offence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the International Labour Organization’s 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the legislation to regulate journalism and the Code of Conduct do not lead to undue restrictions on media freedom
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.69
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a multi-disciplinary framework for the proactive identification of victims of trafficking, involving law enforcement agencies, labour inspections, health-care staff, social workers and child protection authorities, with particular attention to at-risk sectors, for referral to assistance and support
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.62
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen existing legislation to ensure that all forms of modern slavery and human trafficking are criminalized in line with international conventions and standards, including the sexual exploitation of children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Integrate measures to identify and combat abusive pretrial detention into national action plans on prison reform
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Detention
- National action plan
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.223
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement urgently the Convention on the Rights of the Child to protect children from sexual violence and early marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accept the recommendations of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the electoral system in preparation for the next parliamentary elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation to protect freedom of association and peaceful assembly, and define and criminalize all slavery and slavery-like practices, including domestic servitude, and forced and bonded labour, in line with ILO standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Support businesses in addressing modern slavery in supply chains by implementing Italy’s 2016 labour exploitation legislation and encouraging agricultural business to sign up to the “quality agricultural network”
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.79
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a multi-agency approach, including the involvement of community groups, to tackle the underlying causes of the increase in racist and intolerant behaviours
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
147.190
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect freedom of peaceful assembly, including by properly investigating violence against protesters
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
147.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform legislation to ensure justice and support for survivors of sexual violence and the accountability of perpetrators, including specifically making sexual slavery and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation illegal as a crime separate from kidnapping or detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Gender-based violence
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
147.21.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify 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
26.273
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate sexual exploitation of children aged under 18, including through forced, early and temporary marriage, and develop a national plan to protect children at risk
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
26.173
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promptly allow an impartial trial process that weighs evidence and ensures defendants, and lawyers of their choosing, can have timely access to the charges and evidence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
26.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately demonstrate that all detainees in prison are neither tortured nor subject to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
127.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure effective implementation of anti-trafficking legislation, including the timely and just prosecution of perpetrators of human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
127.140
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Set out, publicly, steps the Government will take to ensure women’s full participation and leadership in public life
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
127.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect the right to freedom of expression by repealing the Seditions Act and the Official Secrets Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.163
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review laws that criminalize the use of abortion and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services for all women and girls, and ensure that women are not criminally prosecuted for suffering a miscarriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.93
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national action plan to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls, particularly by gangs, which includes increased institutional capacity for the identification and support of victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Public security
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
103.14
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting its national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
120.202
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure humane and lawful conditions of detention and accommodation of migrants, including by implementing appropriate procedures, oversight mechanisms and effective coordination within government, especially to prevent the trafficking and abuse of women and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
120.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt electoral law amendments to ensure the political participation of all citizens at all levels of governance, regardless of ethnic origin, in line with the European Court of Human Rights and domestic court judgments, including allowing elections in Mostar
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
120.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that survivors of conflict have access to justice by adopting and implementing a national war crimes processing strategy and by meeting the needs of the most vulnerable displaced persons and refugees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Internally displaced persons
- International humanitarian law
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
142.207
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue working with partners at all levels to address the significant levels of violence against aboriginal women, and its root causes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Indigenous peoples
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking to reflect the international commitments Canada has subsequently made in this area
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
142.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, in line with the 2013 announcement that Canada would begin the process of joining
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
101.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all provisions that criminalize consensual same-sex conduct and ensure that anti-discrimination laws cover sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
101.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
101.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 4, 2020
121.196
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow and facilitate unhindered humanitarian assistance wherever required to provide relief for the affected population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.184
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure full and effective implementation of the 2017 national action plan for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
121.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Grant the International Committee of the Red Cross or other reputable international agencies access to English-speaking separatist leaders extradited from Nigeria and detained incommunicado since January
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
112.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Renew the national action plan with specific reference to trafficking and exploitation of women and children through prostitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
112.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
126.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
126.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with the ultimate aim of abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
125.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement an anti-trafficking strategy
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
101.180
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the recommendations of 2015 made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and pass laws on gender equality and domestic violence that comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
101.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to work closely with international organizations to eradicate the drivers of forced labour and ensure compliance with ILO recommendations across all sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
101.103
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee freedom of expression, assembly and association, and end the harassment of journalists, human rights defenders and those exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
116.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to protect and respect individuals’ rights to exercise freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression, including on the Internet, social media and in traditional media, including by preventing harassment of journalists operating in the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
116.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, enabling the independent inspection of prisons and detention centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
114.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work in partnership with the International Labour Organization to eliminate forced labour in connection with State-sponsored cotton harvesting
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End impunity for attacks on journalists and human rights activists, and ensure space for civil society and opposition politicians to operate without fear of reprisals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights across the Russian Federation, including by investigating ongoing persecution of human rights activists and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in Chechnya
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Uphold obligations under international law to allow access to Crimea for international human rights monitors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Other
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.23
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand its National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to increase the focus on in-country due diligence issues, such as black market labour exploitation in the construction sector
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Business and human rights
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a fully open selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
155.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the 2014 ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
129.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure a fully inclusive political process, whereby all citizens are free to participate in public life and exercise their political rights without any intimidation or harassment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
129.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the March 2016 trafficking legislation so that all perpetrators of human trafficking are brought to justice and victims adequately compensated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
129.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.230
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize all forms of human trafficking in line with the Palermo protocols, and address reportedly coercive elements of Cuban labour practices and foreign medical missions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.154
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the right to a fair trial and improve prison conditions through ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adherence to the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Access to justice
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End measures to restrict freedom of expression and assembly including short-term detentions and the use of broad criminal charges such as “dangerousness”
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase training and capacity to deliver the national action plan on human trafficking, specifically techniques to identify patterns in cases of children and women victims which lead to investigation and prosecution of the responsible criminal groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Public security
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a comprehensive protection system for human rights defenders, especially for Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities, backed by public statements that promote the role of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Human rights defenders
- Indigenous peoples
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance relevant investigative and victim support expertise in the judicial system to increase prosecutions in cases of conflict-related sexual violence and reduce the high impunity rate for such cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Transitional justice
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
148.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase labour inspections and take action against individuals and organizations that subject migrant workers to forced labour and human trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect freedom of expression in media, politics and religion, and work with civil society to address concerns regarding section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
147.63
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work with civil society to develop a road map to implement Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 on combating religious intolerance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
141.60
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End all interference in the work of lawyers through disbarment or other disciplinary measures on improper grounds such as expressing critical views
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Justice
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
140.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work towards ending all forms of human trafficking, including by developing a new national action plan for combating trafficking in human beings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
140.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
45.164
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect freedom of expression, including for journalists and human rights defenders, by decriminalizing defamation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend constitutional provisions on appointing members of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, ensuring their peers elect the majority
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
45.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the National Action Plan and Strategy Document on Combating Child, Early and Forced Marriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
156.195
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Advise authorities to take further measures to ensure human trafficking offenders are investigated and prosecuted effectively, including through provision of sufficient funding to units investigating trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
156.175
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation limiting the time an individual can be placed in pretrial detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
156.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based approach process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty bodies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
150.264
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure asylum claims are processed as quickly as possible, and that administrations work together to ensure that asylum seekers and refugees have sufficient access to social protection and services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- ESC rights - general
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
150.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national action plan adequately addressing all forms of human trafficking, as outlined in the 2018 report of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
150.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
110.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take urgent action to promote open and transparent Government, ensuring access to information by promulgating a freedom of information law and honouring information requests
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
110.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully implement the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2011, including by taking measures to ensure investigation, prosecution and conviction of human traffickers in fair trials, including officials complicit in trafficking crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
110.7
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop and implement a national action plan on human trafficking and modern slavery, using this as a framework to evaluate progress on combating modern forms of slavery, and allocate funded budgets to the national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National action plan
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legislation inhibiting freedom of opinion and expression that is not compatible with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- International instruments
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
115.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Undertake impartial, thorough and transparent investigations into enforced disappearances, including that of Sombath Somphone
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
140.228
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all steps necessary to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including ensuring access to work and education and ensuring that all public buildings are accessible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
140.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that legislation is not adopted, including the so-called “foreign agents law”, that would limit the ability of non-governmental organizations to operate freely
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
140.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), of ILO
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
157.173
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure all employers are aware of their obligations under Kuwaiti law concerning domestic workers, including the illegality of passport confiscation and debt bondage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
157.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect freedom of expression for all, including online, by repealing legislation that does not comply with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- International instruments
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
157.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
80.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the Family Welfare Act 2013 and the National Approach to Eliminating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Action Plan to improve access to essential services for violence survivors, embed measures to change social norms, and facilitate redress for such crimes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
80.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize human trafficking in line with international standards, including recognizing that human trafficking may occur within State borders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
80.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a national human rights institution in a timely manner and in line with the Paris Principles, using expertise from regional and United Nations bodies as necessary
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
144.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol of 2014 to the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
142.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Empower and resource the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, the Internal Affairs Unit and the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate fully and prosecute cases of police abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
142.136
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to secure redress for survivors of sexual violence following the 2007 and 2017 presidential elections, and establish mechanisms to ensure such crimes are never repeated
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
100.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure victim services are sufficiently available for all victims of trafficking: including men, as well as women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
100.52
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
100.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
119.166
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to support activities to sensitize communities to the reasons for, and importance of, respecting the 2011 law against female genital mutilation, particularly in rural areas, and ensure cases are brought to trial
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
119.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Investigate, prosecute and convict those responsible for child trafficking and forced child labour, including forced begging and sex trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
119.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
113.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the availability and awareness of support services for victims of modern slavery which give due regard to effects of gender-based violence such as forced sexual exploitation, forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
113.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Apply the law and carry out educational campaigns to end female genital mutilation and underage and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
113.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End impunity and ensure accountability through prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into cases of human rights violations allegedly committed during the protests of 28 September 2009
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.48
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation and gender identity, including those in the Sexual Offences Act and the Criminal Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Protocol of 2014 to the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
153.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign the Global Pledge on Media Freedom, and commit to international efforts to create a safer environment for journalists worldwide as a member of the Media Freedom Coalition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
153.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
153.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the 2014 Protocol to the International Labour Organization Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
91.3.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify 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
- May 18, 2020
118.1.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
28.5.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
158.19.1
- 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
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
158.15.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
158.11.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 18, 2020
108.7.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Liechtenstein’s next universal periodic review
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
96.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national action plan to combat human trafficking, ensuring that it is allocated sufficient human and financial resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation and gender identity, including the relevant language in the Sexual Offences Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
136.252
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent mechanism to assess how religious and ethnic minorities can be better protected against violent attacks
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- 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
136.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the national child labour strategy and action plan, investigating those suspected of being complicit in child exploitation and prosecuting those found responsible
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
105.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
105.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the International Labour Organization Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
105.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and consider the repeal of provisions allowing for the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures for investigating, prosecuting and punishing those responsible for modern slavery offences, and ensure adequate victim protection and care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Lift the state of emergency and remove related restrictions, including on the media
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratifying the Convention against Torture without reservations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
95.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the State Police consistently identify and protect potential victims of trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation, and make sure that the crimes are investigated and that those found responsible are convicted and held to account
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
95.64
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for improving the conduct of elections in Albania
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Elections
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
95.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
124.36
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately cease arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, and ensure detainees are treated in accordance with international law and norms
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Enforced disappearances
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
123.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue engaging with the Special Envoy for Yemen to implement the Stockholm Agreement and work towards a lasting political solution, creating conditions to improve the Government’s capacity to protect the human rights of its citizens
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
123.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fulfil obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law, particularly taking precautions to protect civilians and to ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
38.225
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure all forms of trafficking in persons are criminalized according to international standards, including a legal amendment to define children as persons under 18
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
38.203
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve protection of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression by reviewing existing legislation, and publishing and implementing clear, transparent guidelines on security personnel conduct in managing peaceful demonstrations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
38.32
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Draw up and publish a national plan of action, implementing recommendations from the Committee against Torture in 2018
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
91.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process for selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
91.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the International Labour Organization (ILO) Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
118.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Approve and implement a national action plan to support the implementation of target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for the eradication of forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
118.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise its juvenile justice system and develop national policies based on its international human right treaty obligations, with a particular focus on non-custodial measures and access to education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
118.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legislate the crime of torture as a separate offence in the Uruguayan Penal Code by March 2020, as set out in the United Nations Convention against Torture, to avoid potential loopholes that can foster impunity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve and expand identification and protection procedures for victims of human trafficking and forced labour, ensuring adequate access to support services and sheltered accommodation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Commute all death sentences in respect of drug offences and other non-lethal crimes, and amend legislation such that the death penalty is only available in respect of the “most serious crimes” and compliant with international minimal standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
141.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
94.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the International Labour Organization Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) as part of the Government’s ongoing commitment to achieving target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
94.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and support the disaggregation of Sustainable Development Goals reporting data by disability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Right to development
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
93.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to support and reintegrate victims of modern slavery in its most vulnerable communities in order to reduce the risk of re-trafficking
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that public broadcasters remain free of political pressure and journalists are protected, including by prompt and effective investigations into concerns about their safety
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
121.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 32 - January 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.106
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase human and financial resources dedicated to the office for the coordination of measures against trafficking in persons, to help drive national improvements in support of achieving target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.70
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all threats, intimidation and attacks against journalists and human rights defenders are thoroughly investigated, ensuring no impunity for perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Impunity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
144.209
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement existing laws on child begging, child trafficking and child, early and forced marriage, ensuring sufficient funding is made available
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
122.257
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen legal protection for migrant workers by prosecuting employers who confiscate employees’ passports and providing legal redress for trafficking victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
122.190
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Restrict the use of the Special Criminal Court to cases that fall within internationally accepted definitions of terrorism and permit journalists and accredited diplomats to monitor trials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights and terrorism
- Justice
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
122.189
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive and transparent investigations into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; that those responsible are held to account; and that measures are put in place to prevent any possibility of recurrence, as pledged by the Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation that reflects the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, and adequately protects and assists victims through specialized services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.107
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to combat modern slavery by protecting the rights of victims, including their right to anonymity, and provide assistance to victims, including, where appropriate, shelter, counselling and a 24/7 hotline
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Other
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
114.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Elections
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
134.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend human trafficking legislation to ensure effective prosecution of violations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
134.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase protection of freedom of expression, particularly in the media, through swift, effective implementation of the recent media law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
134.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
139.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
137.194
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase protection to child victims of trafficking by criminalizing sexual exploitation of children trafficked across borders and increasing practical resources to improve identification of victims, and ensure access to specialized victim support and shelter
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
137.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement fully the national action plan for domestic violence, in consultation with civil society, to intensify efforts to tackle the practical and social barriers to progress
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
140.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take a more holistic, human rights-based approach to tackling human trafficking, and further improve the identification of victims of human trafficking by creating a formalized national referral mechanism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
140.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the legal definition of rape in the Penal Code so that absence of consent is placed at its centre
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
140.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 33 - May 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020