157.195
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Change the wording of article 41 (2) of the Irish Constitution to make it gender neutral
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.188
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review articles 40 and 41 of the Irish Constitution with a view to abandoning formulations that potentially promote gender-based discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- 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
157.172
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an action plan to ensure the access and availability of safe abortion services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.169
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Build on the steps taken in the area of sexual and reproductive rights by removing the remaining barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services and making it practically available to all
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.167
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a rights-based health-care protocol for intersex children, ensure that children and their parents are well informed of all options and that children are involved in decision-making
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.164
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 focuses on ways to expand access to voluntary termination of pregnancy, both in law and in practice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.160
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 is comprehensive and focused on providing a human rights-compliant framework for abortion, including by identifying and eliminating barriers impacting marginalized groups
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.22.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- 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 29, 2022
157.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conclude the processes for the ratification of the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Detention
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
157.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and accept the competence of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as regards the inquiry procedure and inter-State communications
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- International instruments
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accede to the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Introduce measures to improve the living standards of Travellers in society and ensure the legislation in place does not hinder their nomadic customs and practices
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Undertake thorough consultations with persons with disabilities, representatives and labour organisations, and civil society prior to entering any reservation to article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities upon ratification, with respect to reasonable accommodation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Right to housing
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review and amend laws, as appropriate, to ensure that publically-funded schools provide equal access to education for all, irrespective of one's faith or religious affiliation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Right to education
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect and promote reproductive rights without any discrimination, recognising reproductive rights include the right to the highest attainable standard of sexual and reproductive health, the right of all to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children, as well as decide on matters related to their sexuality, and to have the information and means to do so free from discrimination, violence or coercion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to ensure the full respect of sexual and reproductive rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Identify and address gaps in reproductive health legislation to ensure the protection of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for adolescents and ensure that sexual and reproductive health education is part of the mandatory school curriculum and targeted at adolescent girls and boys, with special attention on preventing early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take necessary steps to revise its legislation on abortion and provide for clear exceptions, in line with international human rights law and standards, so as to ensure the right to abortion in cases of rape and incest, as well as cases entailing serious risks to the health of the mother or fatal foetal abnormality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure availability of safe abortions, at a minimum in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and in cases of severe and fatal foetal impairment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the constitutional and legislative provisions criminalizing the offense of blasphemy, these provisions could constitute an excessive limitation to the freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement the recommendations arising from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons' review of the Irish Prison Service
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that includes all the grounds for discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Other
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Encourage the development of a National Action Plan on human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider creating a dedicated overarching Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Equality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take forward the democratic process of repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution with a clear timeline, and take all necessary steps to decriminalise abortion in all circumstances, in accordance with the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal legislation that criminalizes abortion and eliminate all punitive measures, in particular Article 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise its legislation on abortion, including its Constitution, to provide for additional exceptions in cases of rape, incest or serious risks to the health of the mother, building on the recommendation from the Human Rights Committee
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 25 - May 2016
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish a Constitutional Convention on article 40.3.3 of the Constitution with the aim to remove all restrictive legislation on abortion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019