31.340
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize all forms of sexual violence against women, including marital rape, and revise the personal status law to allow for civil marriages and divorce
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
31.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure pretrial detention and that all court proceedings fully comply with article 14 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including by ending the use of mass trials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
31.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release all persons detained as a result of peacefully exercising their right to freedom of opinion, expression and assembly, and amend the protest, counter-terrorism, media and cybercrime laws to bring them into conformity with international human rights law, including by repealing law 10 of 1914 on assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights and terrorism
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
31.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the death penalty as a step towards its complete abolition
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to address violence against women and children, including measures to prevent violence and support survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary steps to ensure the reaccreditation of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission under the Paris Principles
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
139.16
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue working with all stakeholders, including the International Labour Organization, to progress issues raised in the joint implementation report
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Date added
- Nov 9, 2020
146.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further action to prevent the forced eviction of migrants and ensure that, where necessary, evictions take place in accordance with the law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Right to housing
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
146.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue legislative reforms to increase media freedom and strengthen protection of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and end the arbitrary arrest of journalists and peaceful protesters
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
146.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further action to end the extrajudicial killing of criminal suspects under investigation and to allow humanitarian access to prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.221
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that indigenous peoples are consulted on decisions that affect their traditional land and environmental resources, including proposed infrastructure development projects, consistent with the concept of free, prior and informed consent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- Right to development
- Right to land
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.70
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take administrative, judicial and legislative action to protect human rights defenders from attacks, intimidation and repression, including by government authorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
115.35
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to ensure violence and hate speech against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons are investigated and prosecuted, and that the perpetrators are held to account
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the living standards of its Roma population, including by providing better access to basic utilities and services and improving education outcomes for Roma students at all levels
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue already commendable efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, including through greater participation by women in political life at the local and national level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures to prevent trafficking for the purposes of sex and forced labour, including measures to identify and support victims and those at risk of trafficking, and dedicate resources to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve access to affordable and good-quality care for older persons and people with a mental or physical disability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights for older people
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take steps to improve access to public buildings for persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider further strengthening its legal framework, including on racial discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to establish a national human rights institution compliant with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
119.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
123.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve resourcing available to bodies protecting the human rights of women, children and minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation to criminalize all aspects of gender-based violence, including marital rape, in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure independent and impartial inquiries are conducted into corruption cases, including in natural resource management, in line with the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2015–2025, and that those found guilty face sanctions in accordance with the law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.31
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite alignment of the anti-torture Act No. 2008-008 with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, incorporate it into national criminal codes and prosecute perpetrators of unlawful detention, torture and killings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen transparency and accountability by promoting and protecting the right to freedom of expression, especially by upholding media freedom, protecting activities of non-governmental organizations, and amending criminal and civil codes with regard to criminal slander and libel
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.72
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty for all crimes, noting that it has abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes, and accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to promote a zero-tolerance approach to torture, in particular by conducting timely, transparent and comprehensive investigations into and prosecutions of reported incidents of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
139.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that includes an explicit prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
148.174
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures to address the gender wage gap, noting the prevalence of women in part-time and low-paid jobs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020