123.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all measures likely to reduce the rate of stateless persons among the population, regardless of their ethnic or religious origin
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
123.6
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the important reform of its nationality law in order to address the gender-discriminatory provisions that persist, which deny Malagasy women the ability to confer Malagasy nationality to a non-national spouse upon marriage on an equal basis with Malagasy men
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
123.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and remove legal, administrative and practical barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
123.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that addresses direct and indirect discrimination and encompasses all the prohibited grounds of discrimination, including sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
123.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Improve resourcing available to bodies protecting the human rights of women, children and minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.29
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen the rights of girls and women by combating early marriage, providing assistance for school attendance and legalizing abortion in all circumstances. Ensure that women and girls who resort to abortion, as well as doctors who perform them, are not subject to criminal sanctions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.28
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure equitable, gender-sensitive and functional access to early diagnosis and high quality treatment, as well as rehabilitation and reasonable accommodation, for persons affected by leprosy-related physical impairments and disability
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Right to health
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure all women and girls can access sexual and reproductive health information, services and commodities, including emergency contraception and other modern methods of contraception, as well as comprehensive sexuality education both in and out of school
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Penal Code to decriminalize and eliminate all punitive measures related to termination of pregnancies in cases of rape, incest, severe fetal impairment and situations where the life of the mother is at risk
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.25
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize defamation and insult, and amend provisions related to these issues to ensure they are better in line with international standards on freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.24
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend legislation which unduly restricts freedom of expression, in line with international and regional human rights law, including by decriminalizing defamation and abolishing insult laws
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.22
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all the necessary measures to release all persons detained exclusively for exercising their rights to expression, opinion, association and assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.20
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal the offence of insulting public officials
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.19
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that laws on libel, contempt and slander fully respect the right to freedom of expression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance the freedom of expression by amending all restrictive provisions of the law on communication and the cybercrimes law, and align these laws with constitutional provisions and international human rights standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cease the harassment, arbitrary detention and intimidation of human rights defenders exercising their right to freedom of expression, including environmental activists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Environment and human rights
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Launch a transparent, independent investigation into allegations of arbitrary or unlawful killings of criminal suspects by the security forces, especially during operations to combat cattle rustling
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
122.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to continue the decentralization of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.156
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt all necessary measures, including awareness-raising campaigns, to prevent and combat child, early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.155
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement existing legislative and policy frameworks on child labour and child, early and forced marriage, respectively, and develop a national strategy to combat all forms of child sexual exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate dedicated resources to projects to combat child marriage and conduct public awareness-raising campaigns in collaboration with religious and traditional authorities and civil society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure compliance with existing legislation to eliminate discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.130
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal all discriminatory provisions against women in the public and private spheres, as well as with regard to economic autonomy, including those contained in nationality, inheritance and marriage legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt the draft bill on gender-based violence establishing marital rape as a criminal offence, in line with recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Treaty bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.124
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Approve the proposed bill to combat gender-based violence and ensure adequate resources for its implementation, including effective handling of marital rape as a criminal offence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the equal rights of women and men in all matters, adopt legislation to criminalize all acts of violence against women and enforce legislation aimed at eliminating discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all women and girls have access to information, services and education on sexual and reproductive health, including comprehensive sexuality education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allocate adequate resources and implement the bill on fighting gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact legislation to criminalize all aspects of gender-based violence, including marital rape, in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
121.91
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Accelerate efforts to reach the objectives on inclusive education in the national sector plan, especially with regard to children with disabilities and children in geographically isolated areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Disability rights
- National action plan
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020