107.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in cases of rape, incest, serious malformation of the fetus and risks to the health or life of the pregnant woman
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
107.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the legal and policy frameworks to address trafficking in persons, including by providing legal recognition of domestic trafficking and lifting age restrictions on protection from sex and labour exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
107.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between persons of the same sex and adopt legislation that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve the access of persons with disabilities to health services and support and strengthen the work of health professionals and organizations dedicated to persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.95
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the legal and policy frameworks to address the high incidence of domestic, family and gender-based violence, including by tackling root causes, providing community support services for victims, and ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.68
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Dismantle barriers related to the hidden costs of education, in particular in rural areas, and provide an adequate budget to the education sector
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen policies for access to quality and universal public education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislative reforms related to the right to health that guarantee universal access to health services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to ensure the well-being of its population, particularly women, children and persons with disabilities, especially the implementation of the Strategy for the Development of Samoa 2021–2025
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to consolidate its sound human rights policies, especially in the area of economic, social and cultural rights, with the aim of continuing to increase the quality of life of its people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.50
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain the priority given to the development of social protection systems and access to affordable basic services, with an emphasis on the protection of vulnerable populations and sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to guarantee the rights of all workers, in particular freedom of association and collective agreement, in accordance with the fundamental principles of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
106.38
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to consolidate national policies and programmes aimed at meeting Sustainable Development Goal 13 and the 2030 Agenda that allow for greater and more efficient adaptation of the population to the effects of climate change
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.161
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.159
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to enact the disability authority bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.157
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain the priority given to promoting the rights of people with disabilities and their access to health, education, employment and basic services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to ensure birth registration for all children under 5 years of age, including children of refugees and stateless persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee full, equal and effective representation and the participation of women at all levels of decision-making by amending the Organic Law on the Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women and girls have adequate access to sexual and reproductive health-care services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to ensure the well-being of its population, particularly women, children and youth, based on the design and effective implementation of national policies in different strategic sectors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.98
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen its successful policies in the field of economic, social and cultural rights to continue improving the quality of life of its people, in particular those in the most vulnerable sectors of the population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a moratorium on the death penalty and consider as soon as possible its abolition and replacement by an alternative punishment that is fair, proportionate and in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement measures to adequately protect the population from the risks of unavoidable natural disasters due to climate change, in accordance with its environmental legislation and good practices
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a legal framework that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
144.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and 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
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
99.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee to refugees and persons seeking international protection whose claims are being processed offshore the right to be transferred to or resettled in, if they wish, a country they consider safe, the right to appeal decisions on their status, and access to health services, including mental health services, for those remaining in the county
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Disability rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.143
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek technical assistance and capacity-building support to further strengthen the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Labour rights
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate the budgetary and other resources required to promote and protect children, particularly those in detention or living in poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment in all contexts and repeal legal provisions that still authorize its use
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
99.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue adopting measures to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality, including women’s access to decision-making positions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021