88.153
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider adopting national policies to protect the rights of older women and of women and girls with disabilities, as well as establishing mechanisms to safeguard them from discrimination, violence and abuse
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up efforts to strengthen the Disabilities and Equal Opportunities Act and the Sexual Offences Act, in order for them to translate into substantive equality between women and men
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Disability rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to comprehensively address the issue of corporal punishment of children, in particular in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.150
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures that specifically prohibit corporal punishment of boys and girls
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.147
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Carry out the necessary legislative adjustments to explicitly repeal the right to inflict corporal punishment and the sentence of life imprisonment for persons under 18 years of age, in accordance with international human rights standards and target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Right to development
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.146
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider undertaking the necessary legislative reforms to prohibit corporal punishment inflicted on children, and continue to promote the use of positive discipline
- Recommending State
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.145
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.144
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Explicitly repeal the common-law right to punish children and prohibit all corporal punishment enacted in all settings where adults have authority over children, as previously recommended
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- UPR process
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.142
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Establish an independent mechanism for monitoring children’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.141
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek to conduct a comprehensive assessment of budgetary needs for children, and increase the allocation of financial means to social sectors, education and health to an adequate level
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.139
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop public policies to combat gender-based violence, in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal 5, and develop temporary special measures to achieve substantive equality, including in political and public life and in access to education, employment and health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to development
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.137
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Develop, adopt and implement, in a consultative manner, a national gender policy with measures for the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence against all women, girls, men and boys, regardless of legal or migratory status, nationality, gender identity or sexual orientation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.135
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Step up the fight against gender-based violence and sexual violence, and classify marital rape as a crime in the Sexual Offences Act
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.132
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all the necessary measures to strengthen the fight against gender- based violence, and in particular sexual violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.131
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take the necessary steps to combat discrimination and violence against women and children, and on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.130
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to combat discrimination against women and girls, in particular by defining policies, with an intersectional approach, to promote the visibility of this category in the country’s public and political decision-making spaces, as well as in the scientific areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work to incorporate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women into its national legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.125
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Intensify the measures adopted to promote the empowerment of women, by strengthening the national mechanism for women and the Directorate of Gender Affairs and developing intersectoral monitoring and coordination mechanisms for the implementation of the policies adopted
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prioritize the incorporation into its legislation of a comprehensive definition of discrimination against women and girls in line with article 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, that covers both direct and indirect discrimination and that recognizes intersectional forms of discrimination, in accordance with the comments received from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Treaty Bodies
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal discriminatory provisions against women in national legislation, including in the Equal Opportunity Act and the Sexual Offences Act, with a view to fully incorporating the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women into national legislation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take temporary special measures aimed at achieving substantive equality between women and men in all areas where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged, including the political and public spheres, education, employment and health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pass legislation explicitly defining and prohibiting sexual harassment in the public and private sectors, with protections against retaliation for those who report
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further increase investment in education and improve the enrolment rate of children in schools
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive sexuality education, with a view to preventing teenage pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.114
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure comprehensive sexuality education, with a view to preventing teenage pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Revise the Health and Family Life Education Programme curriculum in line with the United Nations technical guidelines, and train teachers to ensure effective provision of the curriculum
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to improve the health-care system with measures to allocate more resources and upgrade infrastructure, in order to strengthen maternal health
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.110
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Legalize abortion in certain cases such as rape, incest and serious malformation of the fetus, and decriminalize it in all other cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022
88.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 39 - May 2021
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider legalizing abortion in cases of rape, incest, threats to the life or health of the pregnant woman and severe fetal impairment; decriminalize it in all other cases; and ensure access for women to safe, high-quality and affordable abortion-related care, including post-abortion care in cases of complications resulting from unsafe abortions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- May 29, 2022