151.48.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Extend an open standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date added
- May 1, 2020
151.263
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all migrant workers and their families have access to medical services, including for sexual and reproductive health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.262
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
In order to better safeguard the unity of the family, take steps to speed up the application process for permanent residence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Migrants
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.255
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples through the incorporation of the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in judicial and administrative procedures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Justice
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.248
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to implement legal measures and public policies that guarantee the right to education to persons with disabilities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to education
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.244
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat violence against children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.237
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review state and federal laws to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 for everyone in Malaysia and adopt policies to discourage child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.233
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify efforts to raise the age of marriage to 18 years of age, in order to avoid early and forced child marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.218
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit all forms of genital mutilation and redouble its efforts to eradicate early marriages and criminalize spousal rape
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.216
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat discrimination and violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.215
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize marital rape by amending section 375 of the Penal Code
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.211
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts towards the adoption of a law on gender equality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.210
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Define discrimination against women in national legislation in conformity with the provision in article 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.207
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with its initiatives to ensure equality for women in law and in practice, in addition to combating all forms of gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.197
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a specific programme to ensure the inclusion within the educational system of children with disabilities, as well as refugee and migrant children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- Disability rights
- Migrants
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.191
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further measures to promote the right to education, particularly for the underprivileged and disadvantaged
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.174
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing initiatives to reduce the incidence of communicable diseases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.171
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue guaranteeing access to health-care services, in line with target 3.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Right to health
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to harmonize laws and policies on nationality to ensure equal rights for Malaysian women and men in all situations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.140
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider revising national legislation, including the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, in order to bring it into conformity with international human rights law regarding the right of freedom of expression online and offline
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue developing efforts in order to guarantee the freedoms and safety of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Rescind or revise the Sedition Act, Security Offences Act and Communications and Multimedia Act, which negatively affect freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary measures to ensure that all persons are free to exercise their right to freedom of religion and belief, especially the right to change their religion, without fear of judicial sanction, in follow-up to recommendations in paragraphs 146.87 and 146.152 of the second cycle
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the National Registration Act to remove all references to religion on identity cards, in follow-up to recommendations in paragraphs 146.87 and 146.152 of the Second Cycle
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Racial discrimination
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to implement policies on interreligious harmony, to further promote unity among religions and creeds
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.127
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance protections for the right of freedom of religion or belief for all people in Malaysia, including the right to freely choose and practise their faith
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to prosecute and convict human traffickers, including complicit officials; protect victims; and reduce migrant workers’ vulnerability to debt bondage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Migrants
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Include in the criminal law a clear definition of torture, consistent with article 1 of the Convention against Torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to eliminate all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including the practice of whipping and caning
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
151.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020