133.259
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation to protect migrant workers from xenophobic and racial discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Racial discrimination
- Violent extremism and human rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.243
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish child marriages
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.224
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to increase the representation of women in parliament
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.223
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Make further efforts to protect and promote the rights of women and girls and eliminate gender-based discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.209
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts in law and in practice to explicitly prohibit all forms of female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.202
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to promote gender equality, in particular women’s economic participation and representation at all levels of decision-making, and ensure the effective implementation of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, including with adequate funding and staffing to implement the domestic violence prevention strategic plan and national action plan
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- National action plan
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.170
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take concrete measures to protect and promote the right to freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee freedom of expression for all, including human rights defenders, and ensure that all citizens are protected against threats, intimidation and violence when engaging in public discourse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.133
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts to ensure effective investigation, prosecution and punishment for all acts of torture and ill-treatment, and provide access to justice and rehabilitation for victims of torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue progress on transitional justice mechanisms as an essential component of a comprehensive commitment to good governance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.114
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps towards the formal abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.95
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain its moratorium on executions, amend legislation to remove the death penalty for any crime 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
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that women (especially in rural areas), children, persons with disabilities and indigenous and local communities are meaningfully engaged in the development and implementation of frameworks on climate change and disaster risk reduction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Indigenous peoples
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual same-sex relationships between adults, and take action to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.54
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate adequate human and financial resources to update the 2012 Domestic Violence Prevention Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the independence, accountability and functioning of the Human Rights Commission of Maldives, including with adequate funding and staffing in full compliance 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
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.30
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reconsider its reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (on article 18 – freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (on all clauses related to adoption and on article 14.1 – freedom of thought, conscience and religion)
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Freedom of religion and belief
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
133.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to and implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Asylum-seekers - refugees
- International instruments
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove the regulations which enable the implementation of the death penalty for intentional murder and remove the power of the President to commute death sentences, and renew its commitment to a moratorium on the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Place an absolute ban on death sentences against persons below the age of 18 at the time when the offence was committed
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accept a follow-up visit by the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and accept the outstanding request of a visit by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Justice
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promptly accede to the Trafficking in Persons Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Update and enact the pending disaster management bill with a view to realizing these basic rights to clean and safe drinking water and the right to a clean environment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Uphold freedoms essential for a stable democracy, including freedoms of speech and assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide meaningful access to specialized training on international human rights law and mechanisms to its judges, magistrates, prosecutors and lawyers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement stronger complaints and prosecution mechanisms for survivors of domestic violence, and improved services, including the provision of more shelters
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote leadership of women by enacting the pending gender equality bill and ensuring its early implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement legislation, as required under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, to end discrimination against women and harassment in the workplace
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019