96.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to seek parliamentary approval for the Persons with Disabilities Bill and take concrete steps towards its implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.127
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish corporal punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to combat violence against children, which is a worrying phenomenon in Barbados, in particular by providing the Child Care Board with additional financial and human resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to prohibit corporal punishment, especially at school
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.120
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to address issues raised by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2017 with regard to the corporal punishment of children and continue its efforts to educate the population on the negative impact of such punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to combat all forms of violence against women and children
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accord high priority to the full implementation of legislation on gender- based violence and ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted and adequately punished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts in the fight against all forms of violence against women and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to combat gender-based violence and provide adequate redress and protection to women who are victim of such violence, for example by establishing shelters, issuing and enforcing protection orders and enhancing cooperation with NGOs that provide assistance and rehabilitation to victims
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.100
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance efforts to combat gender stereotyping and gender inequality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend national legislation to reflect the fact that any child born outside of Barbados to a Barbadian citizen is entitled to citizenship by descent
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend its laws to ensure gender equality between Barbadian mothers and fathers with respect to their ability to transfer their nationality to their children in all circumstances
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to prosecute human traffickers, including child sex traffickers, and identify and assist victims of this crime
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop a national action plan to combat human trafficking, ensuring that it is allocated sufficient human and financial resources
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.78
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to fight against human trafficking and to protect its victims, in particular by providing support and assistance to women and girls trafficked for the purposes of prostitution and forced labour
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promulgate the Prevention of Corruption Act of 2012
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Corruption
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expedite the adoption of the Juvenile Justice Bill in order to, inter alia, outlaw the use of corporal punishment as a criminal sanction
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.68
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address the backlog and undue delays in scheduling of court dates and appearances of juries and defendants, including by creating an accurate and transparent online case-tracking system, in order to ensure that all criminal defendants are afforded fair trial guarantees and equality before the courts consistent with the country’s international obligations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.62
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promote a national debate on capital punishment and consider the adoption of a de jure moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish the death penalty for all crimes and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Permanently abolish the death penalty in continuation of Barbados de facto moratorium
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.57
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed-up the process to remove provisions in national law that provide for the mandatory imposition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.56
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation to abolish the mandatory death penalty, in line with previously accepted recommendations, and commute the sentences of all persons currently on death row to life imprisonment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.51
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize same-sex relationships and combat discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.49
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Combat discrimination, prejudice and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity through legislative reform and the adoption of awareness-raising measures
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.47
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider repealing provisions that criminalize homosexuality
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately repeal laws that criminalize consensual same-sex adult sexual relations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.44
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the provisions that criminalize consensual homosexual relations, notably those contained in the Sexual Offences Act, and establish policies to combat discrimination, prejudice and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation and gender identity, including the relevant language in the Sexual Offences Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020
96.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 29 - January 2018<
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation that ensures protection from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity in the areas of employment, health care and education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Mar 3, 2020