UPR Info

Follow up on the recommendations by its National Aids Council, and include men having sex with other men in its HIV/AIDS policies

Adopt the necessary measures to guarantee easy and effective access to free birth registration

Make the necessary legislative changes, including restricting the scope of the Public Order Act, to ensure the fullest possible freedoms of association and expression, and to ensure the police enforce these and other laws in a proportionate manner, including in Western Province

Take the necessary steps to ensure that its legal system and policies are in full compliance with its international obligations in respect of freedom of expression and that the media and journalists are guaranteed the necessary freedoms to carry out their work independently and without fear of prosecution

Repeal any law limiting the right to free expression in the media

Provide an update at its mid-term review on the number of detention centres in the country containing separate facilities for juvenile offenders

Provide statistical data regarding convictions for reported incidents of rape and defilement at its mid-term review

Recognize marital rape as a criminal offence

Adopt concrete measures to address violence against women, including by criminalizing marital rape and increasing public awareness of the problem, with a particular focus on religious and community leaders

Abolish the death penalty in law and consider ratifying ICCPR-OP2

Abolish the death penalty and accede to ICCPR-OP2

Consider the possibility to establish a de jure moratorium with a view to abolishing the death penalty

Consider revising its legislation with a view to eliminating the death penalty

Legislate to remove the death penalty from its statute and commute to custodial sentences those death sentences that have already been handed down

Restrict the application and to consider the possibility of abolition of the death penalty

Abolish definitely the death penalty as a culmination to the de facto moratorium which has been in place since 1997

Abolish the death penalty in the new Constitution and pending the abolition of the death penalty, establish an official moratorium on the use of the death penalty

Take steps to abolish the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty

Take the necessary measures to eliminate all discriminatory treatment towards persons with disabilities including the ratification of OP- CERD

Study the possibility of strengthening measures to eliminate all discriminatory treatment based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Apply special temporary measures in all areas where women are underrepresented or under unfavourable conditions

Remedy the lack of coordination between the main human rights institutions

Extend an invitation to the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

Provide a mid-term update on the implementation of the recommendations of this UPR

Evaluate the possibility to incorporate the principle of non- refoulement into the refugees law

Incorporate CEDAW into the national legislation in order that its provisions could be invoked before the courts

Undertake efforts to ensure that the new draft constitution covers the equality of women condition