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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Rule of law & impunity", "Good governance & corruption", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "5.c - Adopt policies and enforce legislation for gender equality", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Current context in the State Party 9.The Committee acknowledges that climate change represents an existential threat to the people, territory and culture of Tuvalu, disproportionately affecting women and girls in the State Party, and that addressing it requires the strengthening of multilateralism, the global rules-bas...
9. The Committee acknowledges that climate change represents an existential threat to the people, territory and culture of Tuvalu, disproportionately affecting women and girls in the State Party, and that addressing it requires the strengthening of multilateralism, the global rules-based order, the rule of law, the int...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 6579aea7-6e88-4757-95cf-2e0dde06e2d1
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Civil society" ]
[ "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments" ]
[]
Visibility of the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto and the Committee’s general recommendations 10.The Committee notes with concern: (a)That the ratification of the Optional Protocol is contingent upon securing additional resources and complying with existing commitments before undertaking further obligations; ...
10. The Committee notes with concern: (a) That the ratification of the Optional Protocol is contingent upon securing additional resources and complying with existing commitments before undertaking further obligations; (b) The lack of awareness within the Government and among the judiciary, civil society and the populat...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 4289d2e1-7d92-4d0c-ae02-c8de2d4eb893
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Civil society", "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors" ]
[ "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ]
Visibility of the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto and the Committee’s general recommendations 11. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Overcome any obstacles preventing the ratification of the Optional Protocol; (b) Widely disseminate the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto, the Committee ...
11. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Overcome any obstacles preventing the ratification of the Optional Protocol; (b) Widely disseminate the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto, the Committee ’ s general recommendations and the present concluding observations promptly among the judiciary, law en...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 30d036fe-6c33-48bd-84d1-dc774fde7ec6
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human rights & the environment", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ]
Extraterritorial State obligations under the Convention 12.The Committee commends the State Party for its role as founder and Co-Chair of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law and for its 2022 request for an advisory opinion of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on...
12. The Committee commends the State Party for its role as founder and Co-Chair of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law and for its 2022 request for an advisory opinion of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on the protection and preservation of the marine environm...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 0f9b7f95-4474-441d-82dd-87caa1e516d4
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Access to justice & remedy" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ]
Extraterritorial State obligations under the Convention 13. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Include references to the Convention and the Committee ’ s general recommendations in its supranational litigation; (b) Develop a strategy to engage Tuvaluan women, including scientists, policymakers, advocate...
13. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Include references to the Convention and the Committee ’ s general recommendations in its supranational litigation; (b) Develop a strategy to engage Tuvaluan women, including scientists, policymakers, advocates, traditional leaders and the next generation of law st...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 23dbaf25-9e8b-4ad9-9d3b-129baa8acdf8
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Youth & juveniles", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to marriage & family", "Legal & institutional reform", "Labour rights and right to work", "Freedom of thought, conscience & religion", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Human rights & cl...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "8.6 - Promote youth employment, education and training", "5.a - Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic serv...
Constitutional and legislative framework and definition of discrimination against women 14.The Committee notes with interest the 2023 constitutional amendments, which include a new definition of statehood that provides that the State of Tuvalu shall remain in perpetuity, notwithstanding the impacts of climate change or...
14. The Committee notes with interest the 2023 constitutional amendments, which include a new definition of statehood that provides that the State of Tuvalu shall remain in perpetuity, notwithstanding the impacts of climate change or other causes resulting in loss to the physical territory of Tuvalu. In addition, discr...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 07db5dd3-d7df-4259-9339-f3a7e4d04a9f
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Youth & juveniles", "Women & girls" ]
[ "Business & Human Rights", "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Constitutional and legislative framework and definition of discrimination against women 15. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop a definition of discrimination against women that encompasses direct and indirect discrimination, de facto and de jure equality and intersecting forms of discrimination ...
15. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop a definition of discrimination against women that encompasses direct and indirect discrimination, de facto and de jure equality and intersecting forms of discrimination in the public and private spheres in accordance with articles 1 and 2 of the Convention,...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 302c0b20-c530-4dcd-9221-36c6f3927063
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "5 - GENDER EQUALITY", "13 - CLIMATE ACTION" ]
Constitutional and legislative framework and definition of discrimination against women 16.The Committee notes the launch in 2021 of the Te Ataeao Nei Project (Future Now Project), an initiative to create a digital twin (i.e. a virtual representation) of Tuvalu as a response to climate change and rising sea levels. Wit...
16. The Committee notes the launch in 2021 of the Te Ataeao Nei Project (Future Now Project), an initiative to create a digital twin (i.e. a virtual representation) of Tuvalu as a response to climate change and rising sea levels. With the launch of the first-ever digital State, Tuvalu has the potential to pioneer best ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: e40d2b69-5491-4acb-b200-fe10d3fa873f
a2c8828d-c1dc-440a-990b-ee49a8356aca
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Media" ]
[ "Business & Human Rights", "Equality & non-discrimination", "Freedom of association", "Private life & privacy", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Discrimination against women", "Freedom of opinion and expression & access to information" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms", "12.6 - Encourage sustainable practices for companies" ]
Constitutional and legislative framework and definition of discrimination against women 17. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Protect the right to self-determination of the Tuvaluan people, including women and girls, and the sovereignty of the State with respect to the metaverse and ensure that the inv...
17. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Protect the right to self-determination of the Tuvaluan people, including women and girls, and the sovereignty of the State with respect to the metaverse and ensure that the involvement of all private contractors and enterprises in the development of the State ’ s ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: a2c8828d-c1dc-440a-990b-ee49a8356aca
4434c001-e552-47b0-8d04-caf222f4a5b9
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Women & girls", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Arbitrary arrest & detention", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Legal & institutional reform", "Access to justice & remedy", "Conditions of detention" ]
[ "17.2 - Implement all development assistance commitments", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Women’s access to justice 18.The Committee notes that women head key government institutions such as the Office of the Attorney General and the Auditor General, and that they make up 53 per cent of magistrates. However, it notes with concern: (a)Women’s limited access to justice due to the scarcity of courts, prosecuto...
18. The Committee notes that women head key government institutions such as the Office of the Attorney General and the Auditor General, and that they make up 53 per cent of magistrates. However, it notes with concern: (a) Women’s limited access to justice due to the scarcity of courts, prosecutors’ offices and judicial...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 4434c001-e552-47b0-8d04-caf222f4a5b9
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Arbitrary arrest & detention", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Advancement of women", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Access to justice & remedy" ]
[ "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Women’s access to justice 19. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Remove barriers to access to justice for women and girls, particularly those in outer islands, by increasing the regular presence of the judiciary and deploying mobile legal aid clinics that are culturally sensitive, and improve access to ...
19. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Remove barriers to access to justice for women and girls, particularly those in outer islands, by increasing the regular presence of the judiciary and deploying mobile legal aid clinics that are culturally sensitive, and improve access to justice for women with dis...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 33b704ce-5f31-4377-a4d1-2f0aabe54b6d
4dc5cc0c-0067-49fb-bcdc-2993891d9acd
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "Advancement of women", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination against women", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "5 - GENDER EQUALITY", "5.c - Adopt policies and enforce legislation for gender equality" ]
National machinery for the advancement of women 20.The Committee notes that the statement of 21 priorities for the new Government of Tuvalu, issued following the 2024 national general elections, refers to the inclusion of women. However, it notes with concern: (a)The lack of gender mainstreaming and of an intersectiona...
20. The Committee notes that the statement of 21 priorities for the new Government of Tuvalu, issued following the 2024 national general elections, refers to the inclusion of women. However, it notes with concern: (a) The lack of gender mainstreaming and of an intersectional perspective across all its policies and prog...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 4dc5cc0c-0067-49fb-bcdc-2993891d9acd
e437accb-e95e-45b3-b1e4-6fe1368204b2
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting and Follow-up (NMIRF)", "Advancement of women", "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies", "Cooperation with human rights mechanisms & requests for technical assistance", "Discriminatio...
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "5.c - Adopt policies and enforce legislation for gender equality" ]
National machinery for the advancement of women 21. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Mainstream gender and intersectionality across all its policies and programmes, ensure regular monitoring and evaluation of gender-related policies and apply gender-responsive budgeting; (b) Provide adequate human, te...
21. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Mainstream gender and intersectionality across all its policies and programmes, ensure regular monitoring and evaluation of gender-related policies and apply gender-responsive budgeting; (b) Provide adequate human, technical and financial resources so that the Gend...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: e437accb-e95e-45b3-b1e4-6fe1368204b2
887315a4-4325-4b0f-8ef6-45fab025d9e5
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)" ]
[ "16.a - Strong institutions to prevent violence, terrorism and crime" ]
National human rights institution 22.The Committee notes the issuance of the National Human Rights Institution of Tuvalu Act (2017). However, it notes with concern that the State Party has not yet established a national human rights institution pursuant to the principles relating to the status of national institutions ...
22. The Committee notes the issuance of the National Human Rights Institution of Tuvalu Act (2017). However, it notes with concern that the State Party has not yet established a national human rights institution pursuant to the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 887315a4-4325-4b0f-8ef6-45fab025d9e5
424f45b8-bded-4489-97a7-b3225a6caa6b
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)", "Discrimination against women", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "16.a - Strong institutions to prevent violence, terrorism and crime" ]
National human rights institution 23. The Committee recommends that the State Party expedite the establishment of an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles and provide it with adequate human, technical and financial resources and a strong mandate to protect and promote women ’ s...
23. The Committee recommends that the State Party expedite the establishment of an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles and provide it with adequate human, technical and financial resources and a strong mandate to protect and promote women ’ s rights and gender equality, ensur...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 424f45b8-bded-4489-97a7-b3225a6caa6b
a177ced6-2666-4a8f-a6c9-7042bcf35619
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5 - GENDER EQUALITY", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Temporary special measures 24.The Committee notes that a discussion on temporary special measures took place during the parliamentarians’ dialogue on gender equality but remains concerned by the strong resistance to temporary special measures.
24. The Committee notes that a discussion on temporary special measures took place during the parliamentarians’ dialogue on gender equality but remains concerned by the strong resistance to temporary special measures.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: a177ced6-2666-4a8f-a6c9-7042bcf35619
2bc794fa-e782-4505-ab9c-c3399e9e10d8
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Business & Human Rights", "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Temporary special measures 25. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Build on collective spaces such as the National Forum on Shared Leadership and the national forum with traditional leaders to raise awareness about the non-discriminatory nature and the importance of temporary special measures as a tool t...
25. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Build on collective spaces such as the National Forum on Shared Leadership and the national forum with traditional leaders to raise awareness about the non-discriminatory nature and the importance of temporary special measures as a tool to achieve substantive equal...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 2bc794fa-e782-4505-ab9c-c3399e9e10d8
c6e113c9-930d-4ed2-a33e-48263d044230
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship" ]
Gender stereotypes 26.The Committee notes the alignment between traditional Tuvaluan values such as aava (respect) and alofa (deep concern and affection) and the Convention, and it also acknowledges that cultural norms differ from island to island. However, it notes with concern the persistence of gender stereotypes an...
26. The Committee notes the alignment between traditional Tuvaluan values such as aava (respect) and alofa (deep concern and affection) and the Convention, and it also acknowledges that cultural norms differ from island to island. However, it notes with concern the persistence of gender stereotypes and patriarchal atti...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: c6e113c9-930d-4ed2-a33e-48263d044230
03f17e4e-0bf7-4f87-8f61-0625079c7fd0
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "5.c - Adopt policies and enforce legislation for gender equality" ]
Gender stereotypes 27. The Committee recommends that the State Party build on knowledge-sharing and collective values to devise a national narrative and strategy on the equality of women, men, girls and boys at all levels of society and on the need to eliminate patriarchal attitudes and gender stereotypes and ensure th...
27. The Committee recommends that the State Party build on knowledge-sharing and collective values to devise a national narrative and strategy on the equality of women, men, girls and boys at all levels of society and on the need to eliminate patriarchal attitudes and gender stereotypes and ensure that responsibilities...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 03f17e4e-0bf7-4f87-8f61-0625079c7fd0
c6e6dfc4-bd1e-4ef7-9243-4f6d93823445
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Persons with disabilities: protecting the integrity of the person" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "5.6 - Universal access to reproductive health and rights", "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation" ]
Harmful practices 28.The Committee notes with concern reports of non-consensual sterilizations performed on women and girls with disabilities, often at the request of their families.
28. The Committee notes with concern reports of non-consensual sterilizations performed on women and girls with disabilities, often at the request of their families.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: c6e6dfc4-bd1e-4ef7-9243-4f6d93823445
a8b44db2-78d6-4c80-8ab7-0eae3bd8b54a
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Medical staff / health professionals", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Persons with disabilities: protecting the integrity of the person" ]
[ "5.6 - Universal access to reproductive health and rights", "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation" ]
Harmful practices 29. The Committee urges the State Party to eradicate the practice of non ‑ consensual sterilization of women and girls with disabilities, including those with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, and ensure that no medical interventions are performed on them without their free, prior and inf...
29. The Committee urges the State Party to eradicate the practice of non ‐ consensual sterilization of women and girls with disabilities, including those with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, and ensure that no medical interventions are performed on them without their free, prior and informed consent.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: a8b44db2-78d6-4c80-8ab7-0eae3bd8b54a
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Civil society", "Children", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Violence against women", "Rights related to marriage & family", "Legal & institutional reform", "Support to victims & witnesses", "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implement...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "16.2 - Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence", "5.2 - End all violence against and exploitation of women", "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages...
Gender-based violence against women 30.The Committee notes with concern: (a)Statistical data that show that 44 per cent of women in Tuvalu have experienced intimate partner violence, but that only one in three survivors seeks help, mainly due to cultural stigma, a lack of access to specialized services and a lack of so...
30. The Committee notes with concern: (a) Statistical data that show that 44 per cent of women in Tuvalu have experienced intimate partner violence, but that only one in three survivors seeks help, mainly due to cultural stigma, a lack of access to specialized services and a lack of social awareness of the Family Prote...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 67f3e83f-050b-44fb-a6fb-07ed38e02f93
cfa35631-104f-4363-afd0-1825120ad4bd
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Civil society", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls", "Media", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Violence against women", "Inter-State cooperation and assistance", "Legal & institutional reform", "Support to victims & witnesses", "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implem...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "5.2 - End all violence against and exploitation of women", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leade...
Gender-based violence against women 31. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Urgently implement awareness campaigns to sensitize religious and traditional leaders, and the community at large, about the criminal nature of domestic violence, to challenge cultural norms and practices that legitimize it and t...
31. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Urgently implement awareness campaigns to sensitize religious and traditional leaders, and the community at large, about the criminal nature of domestic violence, to challenge cultural norms and practices that legitimize it and to encourage the reporting of cases; ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: cfa35631-104f-4363-afd0-1825120ad4bd
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Women & girls", "Media" ]
[ "Support to victims & witnesses", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Children: protection against exploitation", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human trafficking & contemporary forms of slavery", "Children: definition; general princ...
[ "16.2 - Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour" ]
Trafficking and exploitation of prostitution 32.The Committee notes with concern: (a)The absence of legislation on domestic trafficking, in particular in women and girls, with appropriate sentences; (b)That the State Party has not adopted a national action plan on trafficking nor a plan for accession to the Protocol to...
32. The Committee notes with concern: (a) The absence of legislation on domestic trafficking, in particular in women and girls, with appropriate sentences; (b) That the State Party has not adopted a national action plan on trafficking nor a plan for accession to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: f8f01d36-f948-4f59-a8cb-84328625c8df
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Children", "Medical staff / health professionals", "Social workers", "Women & girls", "Media", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors" ]
[ "Rule of law & impunity", "Support to victims & witnesses", "Children: protection against exploitation", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human trafficking & contemporary forms of slavery", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Constitu...
[ "16.4 - Combat organized crime and illicit financial and arms flows", "16.2 - Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice...
Trafficking and exploitation of prostitution 33. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Adopt legislation specifically criminalizing domestic trafficking, including in women and girls, with appropriate sentences, and accede to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Proto...
33. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Adopt legislation specifically criminalizing domestic trafficking, including in women and girls, with appropriate sentences, and accede to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: f19d91be-8383-481d-aa23-c5f3a0ec3211
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Human rights defenders & activists", "Women & girls", "Media" ]
[ "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human rights & the environment", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Freedom of opinion and expression & access to ...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms", "5.5 - E...
Equal participation in political and public life 34.The Committee notes that both high commissioners and all six first secretaries in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are women and that women hold key positions in the climate change department, led by a woman permanent secretary. However, it notes with concern: (a)That ...
34. The Committee notes that both high commissioners and all six first secretaries in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are women and that women hold key positions in the climate change department, led by a woman permanent secretary. However, it notes with concern: (a) That cultural norms and societal expectations limit ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: b2801efb-caf7-4b22-a22f-2a73e1d60b5c
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Advancement of women", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination agains...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Equal participation in political and public life 35. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Implement campaigns to counter cultural norms and address stereotypes that restrict women ’ s political participation, especially in leadership positions, and increase women ’ s participation in kaupules ; (b) Introd...
35. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Implement campaigns to counter cultural norms and address stereotypes that restrict women ’ s political participation, especially in leadership positions, and increase women ’ s participation in kaupules; (b) Introduce temporary special measures, such as statutory ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 6cf7faa1-2d1a-4661-88ba-c0886686f331
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Internally displaced persons", "Women & girls" ]
[ "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Transitional justice", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life" ]
[ "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Women and peace and security 36.The Committee underscores that climate justice is a cornerstone of the women and peace and security agenda and cautions the State Party against promoting displacement as a solution to climate change and rising sea levels. It also notes that, in 2023, the State Party entered into the Aust...
36. The Committee underscores that climate justice is a cornerstone of the women and peace and security agenda and cautions the State Party against promoting displacement as a solution to climate change and rising sea levels. It also notes that, in 2023, the State Party entered into the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union,...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 2994e560-5858-4390-b50b-24184307b105
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Participation of women in political & public life" ]
[]
Women and peace and security 37. The Committee recommends that the State Party develop a national action plan for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and its nine other resolutions on women and peace and security and disseminate it to all communities and women in all the islands.
37. The Committee recommends that the State Party develop a national action plan for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and its nine other resolutions on women and peace and security and disseminate it to all communities and women in all the islands.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 8e367b13-9e2b-4d8e-98f6-8b75f2de1d7e
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Migrants", "Women & girls", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Human rights & climate change", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls" ]
Nationality 38.The Committee notes the removal of several discriminatory provisions from the Citizenship Act 2009. However, it notes with concern: (a)Persistent practical barriers faced by Tuvaluan women in obtaining Tuvaluan nationality for their children born abroad; (b)The burdensome and reportedly discriminatory ap...
38. The Committee notes the removal of several discriminatory provisions from the Citizenship Act 2009. However, it notes with concern: (a) Persistent practical barriers faced by Tuvaluan women in obtaining Tuvaluan nationality for their children born abroad; (b) The burdensome and reportedly discriminatory application...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: e8179c85-b324-4b17-b4ba-328a5538412a
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Migrants", "Women & girls", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Legal & institutional reform", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Children: definition; general principles; protection" ]
[ "10.7 - Responsible and well-managed migration policies", "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration" ]
Nationality 39. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its administrative practices to eliminate any residual gender bias in nationality documentation and adjudication; (b) Provide gender-responsive training to relevant public officials and ensure equal treatment of women and men in passport applicat...
39. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its administrative practices to eliminate any residual gender bias in nationality documentation and adjudication; (b) Provide gender-responsive training to relevant public officials and ensure equal treatment of women and men in passport application procedur...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: cc028a2b-ee30-4823-97cf-7cd0ab4e3451
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Persons living in poverty", "Youth & juveniles", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Human rights & the environment", "Economic & political crisis, natural disasters or other emergencies", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Safe drinking water & sanitation", "Right to education" ]
[ "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "11.5 - Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters", "8.5 - Full employment and decent work with equal pay", "16.2 - Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence", "4.5 - No discrimination in educa...
Education 40.The Committee notes with concern: (a)That the State Party has not incorporated mandatory disaster risk management and climate change instruction in its educational curriculum at all levels, which is particularly relevant in view of the existential risk that rising sea levels and climate change pose to Tuva...
40. The Committee notes with concern: (a) That the State Party has not incorporated mandatory disaster risk management and climate change instruction in its educational curriculum at all levels, which is particularly relevant in view of the existential risk that rising sea levels and climate change pose to Tuvalu; (b) ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: bfc40011-164b-4ce7-9e1c-0e867a14f3e5
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Persons living in poverty", "Youth & juveniles", "Indigenous peoples", "Educational staff & students", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Human rights & the environment", "Right to health", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Economic & political crisis, natural disasters or other emerge...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "3.1 - Reduce maternal mortality", "6.2 - End open defecation and provide access to san...
Education 41. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Incorporate mandatory disaster risk management at all levels of education and ensure that students are educated on climate change on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge and the traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local knowled...
41. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Incorporate mandatory disaster risk management at all levels of education and ensure that students are educated on climate change on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge and the traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local knowledge systems...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 00e60b3e-e0f9-4d89-8e50-1b2d73ea31c3
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Human trafficking & contemporary forms of slavery" ]
[ "8.5 - Full employment and decent work with equal pay", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Employment 42.The Committee notes with concern: (a)The low labour force participation of women, their overrepresentation in informal employment and unpaid household work, and the lack of measures to ensure access to employment for women with disabilities; (b)That the Employment Act precludes women from night work and w...
42. The Committee notes with concern: (a) The low labour force participation of women, their overrepresentation in informal employment and unpaid household work, and the lack of measures to ensure access to employment for women with disabilities; (b) That the Employment Act precludes women from night work and work in m...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 064f0a19-0897-4b84-aa8a-16eca1b9fe2d
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Labour rights and right to work", "Right to social security" ]
[ "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "10.4 - Adopt fiscal and social policies that promote equality", "8.5 - Full employment and decent work with equal pay", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Employment 43. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Facilitate the transition of women from informal to formal employment; ensure that labour protection and social protection cover women in the informal economy and in unpaid work and self-employed women; and enhance access to employment by women with disa...
43. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Facilitate the transition of women from informal to formal employment; ensure that labour protection and social protection cover women in the informal economy and in unpaid work and self-employed women; and enhance access to employment by women with disabilities; (...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 886129ba-5d34-4104-a0ec-0ecac2f5cab4
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Youth & juveniles", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Right to life", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Right to health", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Human rights & climate change", "Sexual & reproductive health and rights", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "3.2 - End all preventable deaths under 5 years of age", "3.1 - Reduce maternal mortality", "3.3 - Fight communicable diseases", "3.7 - Universal access to reproductive care, planning and education", "5.6 - Universal access to reproductive health and rights", "...
Health 44.The Committee notes the significant reduction in maternal and infant mortality in the State Party. It nevertheless notes with concern: (a)The short life expectancy of women (66 years), women’s high obesity rates (71 per cent) and high anaemia rates among pregnant women (29 per cent) and children under 5 years...
44. The Committee notes the significant reduction in maternal and infant mortality in the State Party. It nevertheless notes with concern: (a) The short life expectancy of women (66 years), women’s high obesity rates (71 per cent) and high anaemia rates among pregnant women (29 per cent) and children under 5 years of a...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: fd7c6b89-c658-4f6b-a3fd-805a5e7b71bc
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Right to health", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Human rights & climate change", "Sexual & reproductive health and rights", "Right to education" ]
[ "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "3.3 - Fight communicable diseases", "5.2 - End all violence against and exploitation of women", "3.7 - Universal access to reproductive care, planning and education", "5.6 - Unive...
Health 45. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop gender-sensitive policies that enhance all aspects of healthcare for women and that improve their health indicators, including life expectancy; (b) Strengthen and expand primary and preventive health services, particularly for the most frequent disea...
45. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop gender-sensitive policies that enhance all aspects of healthcare for women and that improve their health indicators, including life expectancy; (b) Strengthen and expand primary and preventive health services, particularly for the most frequent diseases; en...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: d45c1317-5574-4c9d-a54b-752229500c40
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Indigenous peoples", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Economic, social & cultural rights - general measures of implementation", "Advancement of women", "Data collection & research", "Right to social security", "Land & property rights" ]
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Economic empowerment of women 46.The Committee commends the State Party for eliminating legal barriers to women’s access to bank loans, mortgages and financial credit. However, it notes with concern: (a)Persistent traditional and cultural norms hindering the equal participation of women, especially Indigenous and rural...
46. The Committee commends the State Party for eliminating legal barriers to women’s access to bank loans, mortgages and financial credit. However, it notes with concern: (a) Persistent traditional and cultural norms hindering the equal participation of women, especially Indigenous and rural women, in social and econom...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 0c5e0013-ca18-4110-ab58-1d668c6ce171
dd409c05-ec3f-4678-8863-53efbe2b89a5
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Economic, social & cultural rights - general measures of implementation", "Advancement of women", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Right to health", "Data collection & research", "Right to social security", "Land & property rights", "Budget ...
[ "5.a - Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "4.6 - Universal literacy and numeracy", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation ...
Economic empowerment of women 47. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Remove all remaining legal, societal and cultural barriers to women ’ s equal participation in social and economic life; (b) Develop the electronic economy, mobile money and financial technology (fintech) schemes and entrepreneurship a...
47. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Remove all remaining legal, societal and cultural barriers to women ’ s equal participation in social and economic life; (b) Develop the electronic economy, mobile money and financial technology (fintech) schemes and entrepreneurship and financial literacy programm...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: dd409c05-ec3f-4678-8863-53efbe2b89a5
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CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Youth & juveniles", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human rights & the environment", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Economic & political cri...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "2.1 - Universal access to safe and nutritious food", "11.5 - Reduce the adverse effects of natural disast...
Climate change and disaster risk reduction 48.The Committee underscores the inextricable link between the environment and women’s human rights and also underscores that the State Party’s obligations under the Convention demand active climate action, compliance with the State Party’s duties to the future and the ensurin...
48. The Committee underscores the inextricable link between the environment and women’s human rights and also underscores that the State Party’s obligations under the Convention demand active climate action, compliance with the State Party’s duties to the future and the ensuring of intergenerational equity. The Committ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 25f0ff44-e36c-4dec-b2f0-e9fec0fd26a3
100c605a-6eff-4bdc-a6db-6a23f875a865
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "Advancement of women", "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human rights & the environm...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters", "2.1 - Universal access to safe and nutritious food", "11.5 - Reduce the adverse effect...
Climate change and disaster risk reduction 49. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Solidify its leadership at the international and regional levels to combat climate change and rising sea levels, and implement the best available science principle in the sustained reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in ...
49. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Solidify its leadership at the international and regional levels to combat climate change and rising sea levels, and implement the best available science principle in the sustained reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in a national action plan on women and peace a...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 100c605a-6eff-4bdc-a6db-6a23f875a865
1c414a9c-0d24-42e1-9d98-77c261b6a13d
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Medical staff / health professionals", "Women & girls", "Media", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Persons with disabilities: independence, inclusion" ]
[]
Women with disabilities 50.The Committee notes with concern: (a)The prevalence of the medical model of disability in the State Party, including for purposes of identification and certification (mild, medium and severe) of disabilities, and that the State Party retains colonial-era laws that refer to persons with disabi...
50. The Committee notes with concern: (a) The prevalence of the medical model of disability in the State Party, including for purposes of identification and certification (mild, medium and severe) of disabilities, and that the State Party retains colonial-era laws that refer to persons with disabilities, including wome...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 1c414a9c-0d24-42e1-9d98-77c261b6a13d
22f1ba97-2e6f-4126-933f-85feb311ac11
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Persons with disabilities: independence, inclusion", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Derogation & stat...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "5.5 - Equal opportunities and participation in leadership" ]
Women with disabilities 51. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Adopt the human rights model of disability and ensure that it is applied in an intersectional manner, and repeal all legislation that uses outdated and derogatory language in relation to persons with disabilities, including women and girls w...
51. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Adopt the human rights model of disability and ensure that it is applied in an intersectional manner, and repeal all legislation that uses outdated and derogatory language in relation to persons with disabilities, including women and girls with disabilities; (b) In...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 22f1ba97-2e6f-4126-933f-85feb311ac11
2b885670-5fa7-43a1-b0ea-9c85d683f8cf
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to marriage & family", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Sexual & gender-based violence", "Discrimination against women", "Land & property rights" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "5.a - Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation", "10.3 - Ensure equal opp...
Marriage and family relations 52.The Committee notes with concern: (a)Discriminatory laws and practices regarding land ownership and inheritance that favour male heirs, and the persistence of legal and cultural obstacles to women’s equal rights in marriage and family relations, including in relation to child custody an...
52. The Committee notes with concern: (a) Discriminatory laws and practices regarding land ownership and inheritance that favour male heirs, and the persistence of legal and cultural obstacles to women’s equal rights in marriage and family relations, including in relation to child custody and adoption; (b) The criminal...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 2b885670-5fa7-43a1-b0ea-9c85d683f8cf
e562fc3b-194e-4194-a466-9b0282e75201
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to marriage & family", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Data collection & research", "Discrimination against women", "Land & prope...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "5.a - Equal rights to economic resources, property ownership and financial services", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "5.3 - Eliminate forced marriages and genital mutilation", "10.3 - Ensure equal opp...
Marriage and family relations 53. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Repeal all discriminatory laws and overcome cultural barriers restricting women ’ s access to land ownership and inheritance, as well as discriminatory provisions in marriage and family relations; (b) Decriminalize consensual same-sex ...
53. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Repeal all discriminatory laws and overcome cultural barriers restricting women ’ s access to land ownership and inheritance, as well as discriminatory provisions in marriage and family relations; (b) Decriminalize consensual same-sex relations between adults; (c) ...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: e562fc3b-194e-4194-a466-9b0282e75201
b88817f7-6cfb-4683-99ed-3dd88585fff8
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Data collection & research" ]
[ "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data" ]
Data collection and analysis 54.The Committee notes with concern the lack of sex-disaggregated data collection in many areas relevant to the implementation of the Convention.
54. The Committee notes with concern the lack of sex-disaggregated data collection in many areas relevant to the implementation of the Convention.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: b88817f7-6cfb-4683-99ed-3dd88585fff8
7c0f714c-a186-47c2-816d-6a22107e7b18
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Persons with disabilities: independence, inclusion", "Data collection & research" ]
[ "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data" ]
Data collection and analysis 55. The Committee recommends that the State Party develop a system for the collection of comprehensive, sex-disaggregated, intersectional and disability-inclusive data covering all areas under the Convention and include such data in its next periodic report.
55. The Committee recommends that the State Party develop a system for the collection of comprehensive, sex-disaggregated, intersectional and disability-inclusive data covering all areas under the Convention and include such data in its next periodic report.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 7c0f714c-a186-47c2-816d-6a22107e7b18
c4b2ad2d-7d7a-4c17-ba1d-8e4e01152e78
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Ratification of & accession to international instruments" ]
[]
Optional Protocol to the Convention and amendment to article 20 (1) of the Convention 56. The Committee encourages the State Party to ratify, as soon as possible, the Optional Protocol to the Convention and to accept the amendment to article 20 (1) of the Convention concerning the meeting time of the Committee.
56. The Committee encourages the State Party to ratify, as soon as possible, the Optional Protocol to the Convention and to accept the amendment to article 20 (1) of the Convention concerning the meeting time of the Committee.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: c4b2ad2d-7d7a-4c17-ba1d-8e4e01152e78
68715758-9296-49f4-b9ce-14faed96f7d0
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Women & girls" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Cooperation with international organizations" ]
[]
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 57. In view of the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Committee calls upon the State Party to reaffirm its implementation and to re-evaluate the realization of the rights enshrined in the Convention in order to achieve substantive eq...
57. In view of the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Committee calls upon the State Party to reaffirm its implementation and to re-evaluate the realization of the rights enshrined in the Convention in order to achieve substantive equality between women and men.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 68715758-9296-49f4-b9ce-14faed96f7d0
f8831637-64d4-4f36-be0d-6ff865800cc1
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Civil society", "Public officials", "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies" ]
[]
Dissemination 58. The Committee requests the State Party to ensure the timely dissemination of the present concluding observations, in the official languages of the State Party, to all State institutions, including the traditional governing authority on each of the islands of Tuvalu (the Falekaupule ), as well as to tr...
58. The Committee requests the State Party to ensure the timely dissemination of the present concluding observations, in the official languages of the State Party, to all State institutions, including the traditional governing authority on each of the islands of Tuvalu (the Falekaupule), as well as to traditional and r...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: f8831637-64d4-4f36-be0d-6ff865800cc1
5d618101-b126-482f-8ac6-a389495aa4d3
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Disappeared persons", "Migrants", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Economic, social & cultural rights - general measures of implementation", "Racial discrimination", "Enforced disappearances", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments", "Civil & political rights - general measures of implementation" ]
[]
Ratification of other treaties 59. The Committee encourages the State Party to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Con...
59. The Committee encourages the State Party to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Protection of th...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 5d618101-b126-482f-8ac6-a389495aa4d3
3bc5953d-6000-4720-87c0-eb0267912e80
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies" ]
[]
Follow-up to the concluding observations 60. The Committee requests the State Party to provide, within two years, written information on the steps taken to implement the recommendations contained in paragraphs 15 (e), 31 (f), 49 (a) and (b) and 51 (c) above.
60. The Committee requests the State Party to provide, within two years, written information on the steps taken to implement the recommendations contained in paragraphs 15 (e), 31 (f), 49 (a) and (b) and 51 (c) above.
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 3bc5953d-6000-4720-87c0-eb0267912e80
aaaa68e8-a863-417d-bc65-9986366b2d5b
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies" ]
[]
Preparation of the next report 61. The Committee will establish and communicate the due date of the seventh periodic report of the State Party in line with a future clear and regularized schedule for reporting by States Parties (see General Assembly resolution 79/165 , para. 6) and following the adoption of a list of i...
61. The Committee will establish and communicate the due date of the seventh periodic report of the State Party in line with a future clear and regularized schedule for reporting by States Parties (see General Assembly resolution 79/165 , para. 6) and following the adoption of a list of issues and questions prior to re...
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: aaaa68e8-a863-417d-bc65-9986366b2d5b
0f16549b-9dc2-4e35-8cf5-0a089f4dabe9
CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6
CEDAW
2025-07-10
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Tuvalu" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies" ]
[]
Preparation of the next report 62. The Committee requests the State Party to follow the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties, including guidelines on a common core document and treaty-specific documents ( HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6 , chap. I).
62. The Committee requests the State Party to follow the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties, including guidelines on a common core document and treaty-specific documents ( HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6 , chap. I).
CEDAW | Tuvalu | CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/5-6 | 2025 | DocumentId: df7b552a-6940-4544-9f68-cd91ac6535ca | AnnotationId: 0f16549b-9dc2-4e35-8cf5-0a089f4dabe9
18863d29-5db5-49be-9b1f-863ba5b604d4
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Persons with disabilities" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Human trafficking & contemporary forms of slavery", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments" ]
[ "11 - SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES", "11.4 - Protect the world's cultural and natural heritage", "8.8 - Universal labour rights and safe working environments", "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour", "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES" ]
B.Positive aspects 3.The Committee welcomes the ratification by the State party of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in May 2019. 4.The Committee also welcomes the following legislative and policy measures taken by the State Party: (a)The State Standard of General Education as a policy framewor...
3. The Committee welcomes the ratification by the State party of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in May 2019. 4. The Committee also welcomes the following legislative and policy measures taken by the State Party: (a) The State Standard of General Education as a policy framework that promotes ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 18863d29-5db5-49be-9b1f-863ba5b604d4
22782e64-802e-44ae-b0dd-b36cf79b4215
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Migrants", "Stateless persons", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Data collection & research" ]
[ "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data" ]
Statistics 5.The Committee takes note of the statistics provided by the delegation during the dialogue on the demographic composition of its population, disaggregated by ethnicity, and on refugees and asylum-seekers. However, the Committee is concerned about the lack of disaggregated data on non-citizens, such as docum...
5. The Committee takes note of the statistics provided by the delegation during the dialogue on the demographic composition of its population, disaggregated by ethnicity, and on refugees and asylum-seekers. However, the Committee is concerned about the lack of disaggregated data on non-citizens, such as documented and ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 22782e64-802e-44ae-b0dd-b36cf79b4215
385b5259-d87c-4b3e-a045-498fd5b0783b
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Migrants", "Stateless persons", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Labour rights and right to work", "Data collection & research", "Right to education", "Right to adequate housing" ]
[ "17 - PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS", "8.8 - Universal labour rights and safe working environments", "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "11.1 - Safe and affordable housing", "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable...
Statistics 6. Recalling its general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State Party collect and provide to the Committee reliable, updated and compre...
6. Recalling its general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State Party collect and provide to the Committee reliable, updated and comprehensive sta...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 385b5259-d87c-4b3e-a045-498fd5b0783b
f8cbd7b7-342a-4fc6-bb71-6e650c23fb12
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ]
Convention in the domestic legal order 7.The Committee takes note of the information that the Convention is part of the domestic legal order pursuant to article 6 of the Constitution. Nevertheless, the Committee regrets the lack of information on cases where the provisions of the Convention were invoked before or appli...
7. The Committee takes note of the information that the Convention is part of the domestic legal order pursuant to article 6 of the Constitution. Nevertheless, the Committee regrets the lack of information on cases where the provisions of the Convention were invoked before or applied by domestic courts (art. 2).
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: f8cbd7b7-342a-4fc6-bb71-6e650c23fb12
a4b2459a-6fa1-4d53-bef0-2bc1d30485f7
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors" ]
[ "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship" ]
Convention in the domestic legal order 8. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee recommends that the State Party conduct systematic training programmes and awareness-raising campaigns, in particular for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and law enforcement officials, to ensure that the provisions of the Con...
8. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee recommends that the State Party conduct systematic training programmes and awareness-raising campaigns, in particular for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and law enforcement officials, to ensure that the provisions of the Convention are invoked when relevant by an...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: a4b2459a-6fa1-4d53-bef0-2bc1d30485f7
7170ad63-0edb-4e37-bfee-ec74cfe3c027
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Prohibition of racial discrimination 9.The Committee notes the information provided on the legislative framework regarding equality and non-discrimination, particularly in accordance with article 24 of the Constitution which prohibits discrimination, including on the grounds of race and ethnicity, and notes that discri...
9. The Committee notes the information provided on the legislative framework regarding equality and non-discrimination, particularly in accordance with article 24 of the Constitution which prohibits discrimination, including on the grounds of race and ethnicity, and notes that discrimination is criminalized on the grou...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 7170ad63-0edb-4e37-bfee-ec74cfe3c027
ff05d0d8-8b1a-4a91-b03c-26f3baa74c8b
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Prohibition of racial discrimination 10. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges the State Party: (a) To review its legal framework, particularly article 24 of the Constitution and article 189 of the Criminal Code, with a view to bringing it into line with the Convention, explicitly incorporating ...
10. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges the State Party: (a) To review its legal framework, particularly article 24 of the Constitution and article 189 of the Criminal Code, with a view to bringing it into line with the Convention, explicitly incorporating the principle of equality and the pro...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: ff05d0d8-8b1a-4a91-b03c-26f3baa74c8b
78f2e62e-456b-4a3f-b68d-d5ad9ca909c4
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[ "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)" ]
[ "16.a - Strong institutions to prevent violence, terrorism and crime", "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ]
National human rights institution 11.While noting the information provided by the delegation during the dialogue on the measures to develop a draft law on the establishment of a national human rights institution that is in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion ...
11. While noting the information provided by the delegation during the dialogue on the measures to develop a draft law on the establishment of a national human rights institution that is in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (t...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 78f2e62e-456b-4a3f-b68d-d5ad9ca909c4
a6c15169-b507-4c5e-8f69-79130d23356e
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "16.a - Strong institutions to prevent violence, terrorism and crime", "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
National human rights institution 12. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 17 (1993) on the establishment of national institutions to facilitate the implementation of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State Party expedite the adoption, within a clear time frame, of t...
12. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 17 (1993) on the establishment of national institutions to facilitate the implementation of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State Party expedite the adoption, within a clear time frame, of the draft law on establishing an in...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: a6c15169-b507-4c5e-8f69-79130d23356e
6ed815db-460b-477a-88a2-9b06e8cec85a
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Media", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Hate speech and hate crimes 13.The Committee takes notes of the information provided on the legislative framework to combat hate crimes and hate speech, particularly under article 32 of the Constitution and under article 330 of the Criminal Code which criminalizes incitement to racial, ethnic, national, religious or in...
13. The Committee takes notes of the information provided on the legislative framework to combat hate crimes and hate speech, particularly under article 32 of the Constitution and under article 330 of the Criminal Code which criminalizes incitement to racial, ethnic, national, religious or interregional hostility, and ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 6ed815db-460b-477a-88a2-9b06e8cec85a
a7a7be9a-08fb-4dd5-a69b-17f0bfbd26ec
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Vulnerable persons/groups", "Media", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Hate speech and hate crimes 14. Recalling its general recommendations No. 7 (1985) relating to the implementation of article 4 of the Convention, No. 15 (1993) on article 4 of the Convention and No. 35 (2013) on combating racist hate speech, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative fram...
14. Recalling its general recommendations No. 7 (1985) relating to the implementation of article 4 of the Convention, No. 15 (1993) on article 4 of the Convention and No. 35 (2013) on combating racist hate speech, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative framework, particularly the Crim...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: a7a7be9a-08fb-4dd5-a69b-17f0bfbd26ec
afcdad8f-706a-4cf5-80d4-9c4c255f1a2b
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rule of law & impunity", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Racial discrimination", "Access to justice & remedy", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Complaints of racial discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes 15.The Committee notes the information provided on the investigation and prosecution of 189 cases between 2019 and 2022 on incitement to racial, ethnic, national, religious or interregional hostility pursuant to article 330 of the Criminal Code. Neverthel...
15. The Committee notes the information provided on the investigation and prosecution of 189 cases between 2019 and 2022 on incitement to racial, ethnic, national, religious or interregional hostility pursuant to article 330 of the Criminal Code. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (a) The lack of informati...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: afcdad8f-706a-4cf5-80d4-9c4c255f1a2b
36645ff4-e40c-45d8-86da-2673ff19600e
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Persons living in poverty", "Migrants", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights & poverty", "Rule of law & impunity", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Racial discrimination", "Access to justice & remedy", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Data collection & ...
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "10 - REDUCED INEQUALITIES", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Complaints of racial discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes 16. The Committee draws the State Party ’ s attention to its general recommendation No. 31 (2005) on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, and recalls that an absence of complaints an...
16. The Committee draws the State Party ’ s attention to its general recommendation No. 31 (2005) on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, and recalls that an absence of complaints and legal actions relating to racial discrimination may reveal a la...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 36645ff4-e40c-45d8-86da-2673ff19600e
c8112294-15a4-45c8-9f84-ed94ba3e309e
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rule of law & impunity", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Prohibition of torture & ill-treatment (including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment)" ]
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Racial profiling 17.The Committee notes the information provided by the delegation on the human rights training provided to law enforcement agencies and on the disciplinary measures taken against law enforcement agents for the excessive use of force. However, the Committee is concerned about: (a)The lack of information...
17. The Committee notes the information provided by the delegation on the human rights training provided to law enforcement agencies and on the disciplinary measures taken against law enforcement agents for the excessive use of force. However, the Committee is concerned about: (a) The lack of information on the explici...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: c8112294-15a4-45c8-9f84-ed94ba3e309e
87e0507a-53aa-409b-ad03-45f01e0b6512
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rule of law & impunity", "Racial discrimination", "Access to justice & remedy", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Prohibition of torture & ill-treatment (including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment)" ]
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Racial profiling 18. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 36 (2020) on preventing and combating racial profiling by law enforcement officials, the Committee urges the State Party to: (a) Adopt legislation that explicitly prohibits racial profiling by law enforcement agents during po...
18. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 36 (2020) on preventing and combating racial profiling by law enforcement officials, the Committee urges the State Party to: (a) Adopt legislation that explicitly prohibits racial profiling by law enforcement agents during police operations; ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 87e0507a-53aa-409b-ad03-45f01e0b6512
8653bbba-9fc9-4450-8e61-ad4feb1518f2
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Human rights defenders & activists", "Civil society", "Media", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Arbitrary arrest & detention", "Freedom of association", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Legal & institutional reform", "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Freedom of thought, conscience & religion", "Racial discrimination", "Right to peacef...
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Civic space 19.The Committee is concerned about the increase in restrictions imposed on exercising and enjoying the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association under the legislative framework and in practice. In particular, the Committee is concerned about: (...
19. The Committee is concerned about the increase in restrictions imposed on exercising and enjoying the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association under the legislative framework and in practice. In particular, the Committee is concerned about: (a) The adop...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 8653bbba-9fc9-4450-8e61-ad4feb1518f2
05e5075f-2e06-4340-9f8b-08584af2fc7f
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Human rights defenders & activists", "Civil society", "Media", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Persons deprived of their liberty & detainees", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Arbitrary arrest & detention", "Rule of law & impunity", "Freedom of association", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Legal & institutional reform", "Cooperation & consultation with civil society", "Racial discrimination", "Right to peaceful assembly", "Co...
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Civic space 20. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative framework, including the Law on Non-Commercial Organizations and its subsequent amendments, to ensure an open and secure space for the operation of civil society organizations and human rights defenders, particularly those working...
20. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative framework, including the Law on Non-Commercial Organizations and its subsequent amendments, to ensure an open and secure space for the operation of civil society organizations and human rights defenders, particularly those working on the righ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 05e5075f-2e06-4340-9f8b-08584af2fc7f
f893c623-11fe-4889-9baf-0548dc9f3b7f
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Rule of law & impunity", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Access to justice & remedy", "Prohibition of torture & ill-treatment (including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment)" ]
[ "16 - PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS", "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Accountability for the 2010 ethnic violence 21.The Committee takes note of the information provided during the dialogue that law enforcement agencies launched investigations into more than 5,000 cases related to offences that occurred during and in the aftermath of the June 2010 ethnic violence, and that 342 cases were...
21. The Committee takes note of the information provided during the dialogue that law enforcement agencies launched investigations into more than 5,000 cases related to offences that occurred during and in the aftermath of the June 2010 ethnic violence, and that 342 cases were prosecuted. Nevertheless, the Committee re...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: f893c623-11fe-4889-9baf-0548dc9f3b7f
c422f166-483e-4412-9de8-b77c57c2f92f
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Rule of law & impunity", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Prohibition of torture & ill-treatment (including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment)" ]
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "5.2 - End all violence against and exploitation of women", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Accountability for the 2010 ethnic violence 22. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges the State Party to conduct prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into all allegations of abuses and violations of human rights that occurred during and in the aftermath of the June 2010 ethnic violence,...
22. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges the State Party to conduct prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into all allegations of abuses and violations of human rights that occurred during and in the aftermath of the June 2010 ethnic violence, including allegations of torture and ill-tr...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: c422f166-483e-4412-9de8-b77c57c2f92f
544ecf2e-a987-43e3-a025-be5635d321a4
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Persons living in poverty", "Persons living in rural areas", "Vulnerable persons/groups", "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Violence against women", "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights & poverty", "Advancement of women", "Racial discrimination", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote", "Sexual & gender-based violence", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination again...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "5.2 - End all violence against and exploitation of women", "5.3 ...
Women belonging to ethnic minority groups 23.The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation on measures to protect and empower women belonging to ethnic minority groups, and their participation in public and political life. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (a)Multiple and intersec...
23. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation on measures to protect and empower women belonging to ethnic minority groups, and their participation in public and political life. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (a) Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination on the grou...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 544ecf2e-a987-43e3-a025-be5635d321a4
dca5f271-9b2b-4e44-8e4e-558f5d0f2f4c
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Persons living in poverty", "Persons living in rural areas", "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Violence against women", "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights & poverty", "Legal & institutional reform", "Advancement of women", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Labour rights and right to work", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementat...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere...
Women belonging to ethnic minority groups 24. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 25 (2000) on gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination, the Committee urges the State Party: (a) To review its legislative and policy frameworks to eliminate all barriers and restrictions fac...
24. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 25 (2000) on gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination, the Committee urges the State Party: (a) To review its legislative and policy frameworks to eliminate all barriers and restrictions faced by women belonging to ethnic minority g...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: dca5f271-9b2b-4e44-8e4e-558f5d0f2f4c
4450c2c5-e3d0-46f4-989d-acbdbd550d40
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Human rights defenders & activists", "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Arbitrary arrest & detention", "Prohibition of torture & ill-treatment (including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment)", "Civil & political rights - general measures of implementation", "Right to education" ]
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic minority groups 25.The Committee is concerned by reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic minority groups continue to face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, restricting the exer...
25. The Committee is concerned by reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic minority groups continue to face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, restricting the exercise of their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, in particular access t...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 4450c2c5-e3d0-46f4-989d-acbdbd550d40
3a977153-7d2d-4105-8da6-ec10c819bae0
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[ "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic minority groups 26. The Committee recommends that the State Party take all measures necessary to combat intersecting and multiple forms of discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic min...
26. The Committee recommends that the State Party take all measures necessary to combat intersecting and multiple forms of discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons belonging to ethnic minority groups, including by mainstreaming gender, sexual orientation and gender identity into ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 3a977153-7d2d-4105-8da6-ec10c819bae0
0dadc82a-74c4-403d-b94a-2b308ee0c223
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Persons living in poverty", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Human rights & poverty", "Economic, social & cultural rights - general measures of implementation", "Data collection & research", "Right to social security", "Land & property rights", "Right to education", "Right to adequate housing", "Right to an a...
[ "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "4 - QUALITY EDUCATION", "4.1 - Free primary and secondary education", "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "11.1 - Safe and affordable housing", ...
Mugat ethnic community 27.The Committee is concerned about the lack of detailed information and official statistics about the Mugat ethnic community in the State Party, particularly regarding their social and economic situation. The Committee is concerned about: (a)The persistent stigmatization, prejudice and social ex...
27. The Committee is concerned about the lack of detailed information and official statistics about the Mugat ethnic community in the State Party, particularly regarding their social and economic situation. The Committee is concerned about: (a) The persistent stigmatization, prejudice and social exclusion against the M...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 0dadc82a-74c4-403d-b94a-2b308ee0c223
b3dccd65-51c7-4d11-9245-76e541a517d9
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Children", "Persons living in poverty", "Youth & juveniles", "Roma, Gypsies, Sinti & Travellers", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Human rights & poverty", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Labour rights and right to work", "Land & property rights", "Right to education", "Right to adequate housing", "Right to an adequate ...
[ "1.1 - Eradicate extreme poverty", "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "8.6 - Promote youth employment, education and training", "1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources", "4.1 - Free primary and secondary education", "8.5 - Ful...
Mugat ethnic community 28. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Take effective measures, including special measures, to address the extreme poverty, marginalization and structural discrimina...
28. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Take effective measures, including special measures, to address the extreme poverty, marginalization and structural discrimination faced by the Mugat...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: b3dccd65-51c7-4d11-9245-76e541a517d9
1dafea20-fa59-44bd-8002-21850bd25004
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Good governance & corruption", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote" ]
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Ethnic minorities in political and public affairs 29.The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation on the representation of ethnic minority groups in the public sector, elected bodies, decision‑making and high-ranking positions, the judiciary and law enforcement agencies. Nevertheless, the Comm...
29. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation on the representation of ethnic minority groups in the public sector, elected bodies, decision‐making and high-ranking positions, the judiciary and law enforcement agencies. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (a) The persistent low ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 1dafea20-fa59-44bd-8002-21850bd25004
3771b5bd-18eb-47d8-9266-6a01e71764f4
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Good governance & corruption", "Right to participate in public affairs & right to vote" ]
[ "16.7 - Responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making" ]
Ethnic minorities in political and public affairs 30. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 32 (2009) on the meaning and scope of special measures, the Committee recommends that the State Party adopt measures to ensure fair and equitable representation of ethnic minority groups, part...
30. Recalling its previous recommendations and its general recommendation No. 32 (2009) on the meaning and scope of special measures, the Committee recommends that the State Party adopt measures to ensure fair and equitable representation of ethnic minority groups, particularly at the local level, in the public sector,...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 3771b5bd-18eb-47d8-9266-6a01e71764f4
86c3c2c6-f38e-454a-912c-31039ef10cee
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Educational staff & students", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Cultural rights", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to education", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "4 - QUALITY EDUCATION", "4.5 - No discrimination in education" ]
Access to education in minority languages 31.The Committee takes note of the information provided that the legislative framework, including the Law on Education and the Law on the State Language of the Kyrgyz Republic, guarantees education in minority languages, while adhering to the principle of multilingual education...
31. The Committee takes note of the information provided that the legislative framework, including the Law on Education and the Law on the State Language of the Kyrgyz Republic, guarantees education in minority languages, while adhering to the principle of multilingual education. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerne...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 86c3c2c6-f38e-454a-912c-31039ef10cee
3ed95be9-81ea-4238-8576-6b0f4c47098f
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Educational staff & students", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Cultural rights", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to education", "Budget & resources (for human rights implementation)" ]
[ "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Access to education in minority languages 32. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges that the State Party: (a) Assess and review its legislative and policy framework on education and the multilingual education approach to ensure the effective access of students belonging to ethnic minority groups...
32. Reiterating its previous recommendations, the Committee urges that the State Party: (a) Assess and review its legislative and policy framework on education and the multilingual education approach to ensure the effective access of students belonging to ethnic minority groups to education in their mother tongue at al...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 3ed95be9-81ea-4238-8576-6b0f4c47098f
26035dd2-8ae4-45be-8f5c-84d1d5fd5904
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Children", "Medical staff / health professionals", "Migrants", "Older persons", "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Stateless persons", "Women & girls", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "P...
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Racial discrimination", "Right to health", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Persons with disabilities: independence, inclusion", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public ...
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination", "3.4 - Reduce mortalit...
Right to health 33.The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation about the legislative framework on the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and on access to medical care and health services for members of ethnic minority groups, such as the Mu...
33. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation about the legislative framework on the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and on access to medical care and health services for members of ethnic minority groups, such as the Mugat, refugees a...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 26035dd2-8ae4-45be-8f5c-84d1d5fd5904
aaeee5ab-d5c0-4455-9201-0e60533d7657
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Persons living with HIV/AIDS", "Children in vulnerable situations (abused, living on the street, institutionalized, indigenous, migrant children etc.)", "Children", "Older persons", "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex persons (LGBTI)", "Vulnerable persons/groups", "Women & girls", "M...
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Children: definition; general principles; protection", "Right to health", "Human rights & climate change", "Participation of women in political & public life", "Discrimination against women" ]
[ "5.1 - End discrimination against women and girls", "3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage", "8.7 - End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Right to health 34. Recalling its general recommendation No. 37 (2024) on equality and freedom from racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health, the Committee recommends that the State Party adopt measures to ensure equal access to culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive and context-responsive qualit...
34. Recalling its general recommendation No. 37 (2024) on equality and freedom from racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health, the Committee recommends that the State Party adopt measures to ensure equal access to culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive and context-responsive quality health facilit...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: aaeee5ab-d5c0-4455-9201-0e60533d7657
6da6e831-c4a0-41c4-b4b5-b51f26959350
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Legal & institutional reform", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to education", "Right to adequate housing" ]
[ "11.1 - Safe and affordable housing", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Refugees and asylum-seekers 35.The Committee takes note of the information provided on the adoption in 2023 of amendments to the Law on Refugees to expand access to healthcare and medical services for refugees and asylum-seekers, similarly as for citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (...
35. The Committee takes note of the information provided on the adoption in 2023 of amendments to the Law on Refugees to expand access to healthcare and medical services for refugees and asylum-seekers, similarly as for citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about: (a) Reports of procedural ir...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 6da6e831-c4a0-41c4-b4b5-b51f26959350
f7762874-2905-407a-951d-13a55fe4d318
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Right to adequate housing" ]
[ "11.1 - Safe and affordable housing", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Refugees and asylum-seekers 36. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative framework, including the Law on Refugees and the Criminal Procedure Law, to align it with international standards, particul...
36. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Review its legislative framework, including the Law on Refugees and the Criminal Procedure Law, to align it with international standards, particularly with the principle of n...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: f7762874-2905-407a-951d-13a55fe4d318
201da6d7-b684-4043-ba98-502d53537e65
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Children", "Migrants", "Stateless persons", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens", "Military personnel" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Legal & institutional reform", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Data collection & research", "Right to education" ]
[ "4.5 - No discrimination in education", "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Stateless persons 37.The Committee welcomes the measures taken in 2019 to identify and resolve the identified stateless cases, the adoption of an amendment to the Law on Civil Acts to guarantee the birth registration of every child born on the State Party’s territory, and the establishment in 2025 of a procedure for de...
37. The Committee welcomes the measures taken in 2019 to identify and resolve the identified stateless cases, the adoption of an amendment to the Law on Civil Acts to guarantee the birth registration of every child born on the State Party’s territory, and the establishment in 2025 of a procedure for determining statele...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 201da6d7-b684-4043-ba98-502d53537e65
c2807ead-b597-4123-9bda-039845e71b4e
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Refugees & asylum seekers", "Children", "Migrants", "Stateless persons", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Rights related to name, identity & nationality", "Legal & institutional reform", "Constitutional & legislative framework", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments", "Data collection & research" ]
[ "16.9 - Universal legal identity and birth registration", "17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Stateless persons 38. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop a data collection system on statelessness to ensure the collection and publication of statistics concerning stateless persons and their economic and social situation; (b) Refrain from adopting the draft law to amend provisions of the Law o...
38. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Develop a data collection system on statelessness to ensure the collection and publication of statistics concerning stateless persons and their economic and social situation; (b) Refrain from adopting the draft law to amend provisions of the Law on Citizenship, whi...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: c2807ead-b597-4123-9bda-039845e71b4e
807d49ab-2b77-41c2-9b99-30a1cccc6ffd
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants" ]
[ "Access to justice & remedy" ]
[ "8.8 - Universal labour rights and safe working environments", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Migrant workers 39.The Committee takes note of the information provided that the State Party endorsed, in August 2024, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about reports that migrant workers face harsh working conditions, abuse and exploitation. It is also...
39. The Committee takes note of the information provided that the State Party endorsed, in August 2024, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned about reports that migrant workers face harsh working conditions, abuse and exploitation. It is also concerned abou...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 807d49ab-2b77-41c2-9b99-30a1cccc6ffd
5e8f3843-c1ce-40ff-9225-d8787db50918
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Vulnerable persons/groups" ]
[ "Administration of justice & fair trial", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Access to justice & remedy" ]
[ "8.8 - Universal labour rights and safe working environments", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Migrant workers 40. The Committee recommends that the State Party take measures to combat abuse and exploitation of migrant workers, including by assessing and reviewing the employment framework on migrant workers to reduce their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse. It also recommends that the State Party adopt mea...
40. The Committee recommends that the State Party take measures to combat abuse and exploitation of migrant workers, including by assessing and reviewing the employment framework on migrant workers to reduce their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse. It also recommends that the State Party adopt measures to ensure ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 5e8f3843-c1ce-40ff-9225-d8787db50918
ed30af96-31c2-4be1-8f73-3415a0fa6ba8
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Right to life", "Right to health", "Constitutional & legislative framework" ]
[]
Violent attacks against non-citizens 41.The Committee is deeply concerned about reports of an increase in hate speech and violent attacks by civilians against migrants in May 2024, leading to abuses and violations of their right to life and physical integrity and their right to the highest attainable standard of health...
41. The Committee is deeply concerned about reports of an increase in hate speech and violent attacks by civilians against migrants in May 2024, leading to abuses and violations of their right to life and physical integrity and their right to the highest attainable standard of health. The Committee notes the informatio...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: ed30af96-31c2-4be1-8f73-3415a0fa6ba8
da76f1ce-3510-4757-b556-5796a21a5a55
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Migrants", "Media", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups", "Non-citizens" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Rule of law & impunity", "Racial discrimination" ]
[ "16.1 - Reduce violence everywhere", "16.3 - Promote the rule of law and access to justice for all" ]
Violent attacks against non-citizens 42. The Committee recommends that the State Party conduct effective, thorough and impartial investigations into all reports of abuses and violations of human rights perpetrated against migrants, and appropriately prosecute and punish those convicted with penalties commensurate with ...
42. The Committee recommends that the State Party conduct effective, thorough and impartial investigations into all reports of abuses and violations of human rights perpetrated against migrants, and appropriately prosecute and punish those convicted with penalties commensurate with the offences. It also recommends that...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: da76f1ce-3510-4757-b556-5796a21a5a55
8c054919-2548-47bd-912b-9940cb652d07
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Concerns/Observations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Legal & institutional reform", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Racial discrimination" ]
[ "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Training, education and other measures to combat prejudice and intolerance 43.The Committee takes note of the information provided on policy measures taken to promote tolerance and diversity, including the Concept for the Development of the Civic Identity of the Kyrgyz Zharany and the National Development Strategy for ...
43. The Committee takes note of the information provided on policy measures taken to promote tolerance and diversity, including the Concept for the Development of the Civic Identity of the Kyrgyz Zharany and the National Development Strategy for the period 2018–2040. It also notes the information provided on human righ...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 8c054919-2548-47bd-912b-9940cb652d07
c4410e4a-7402-46d0-9c23-6b564a8f569b
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Law enforcement / police & prison officials", "Judges, lawyers and prosecutors", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Human rights education, trainings & awareness raising", "Racial discrimination" ]
[ "10.2 - Promote universal social, economical and political inclusion", "4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Training, education and other measures to combat prejudice and intolerance 44. The Committee recommends that the State Party increase its efforts to raise public awareness of the importance of ethnic and cultural diversity and of combating racial discrimination, in particular for law enforcement officials and judicial ...
44. The Committee recommends that the State Party increase its efforts to raise public awareness of the importance of ethnic and cultural diversity and of combating racial discrimination, in particular for law enforcement officials and judicial authorities, and integrate these concepts into all levels of education in o...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: c4410e4a-7402-46d0-9c23-6b564a8f569b
c97da210-500b-4b84-8fd8-ee3bb7cf4f63
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Disappeared persons", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Racial discrimination", "Enforced disappearances", "Ratification of & accession to international instruments" ]
[ "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Ratification of other treaties 45. Bearing in mind the indivisibility of all human rights, the Committee encourages the State Party to consider ratifying those international human rights treaties that it has not yet ratified, in particular treaties with provisions that have direct relevance to communities that may be s...
45. Bearing in mind the indivisibility of all human rights, the Committee encourages the State Party to consider ratifying those international human rights treaties that it has not yet ratified, in particular treaties with provisions that have direct relevance to communities that may be subjected to racial discriminati...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: c97da210-500b-4b84-8fd8-ee3bb7cf4f63
7bc2cea2-670f-4551-84be-647aca501fa6
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[]
[]
Amendment to article 8 of the Convention 46. The Committee recommends that the State Party accept the amendment to article 8 (6) of the Convention adopted on 15 January 1992 at the fourteenth meeting of States parties to the Convention and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/111.
46. The Committee recommends that the State Party accept the amendment to article 8 (6) of the Convention adopted on 15 January 1992 at the fourteenth meeting of States parties to the Convention and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/111.
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 7bc2cea2-670f-4551-84be-647aca501fa6
a6fad365-547d-4981-8aa3-5103dad50725
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[]
[]
[]
Declaration under article 14 of the Convention 47. The Committee encourages the State Party to make the optional declaration provided for in article 14 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider individual communications.
47. The Committee encourages the State Party to make the optional declaration provided for in article 14 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider individual communications.
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: a6fad365-547d-4981-8aa3-5103dad50725
127e4582-2232-4a58-af16-495a95d7afc5
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies", "National Human Rights Action Plans (or specific areas) / implementation plans", "Racial discrimination" ]
[ "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
Follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 48. In the light of its general recommendation No. 33 (2009) on follow-up to the Durban Review Conference, the Committee recommends that , when implementing the Convention in its domestic legal order, the State Party give effect to the Durban Declaration and P...
48. In the light of its general recommendation No. 33 (2009) on follow-up to the Durban Review Conference, the Committee recommends that , when implementing the Convention in its domestic legal order, the State Party give effect to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted in September 2001 by the World C...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 127e4582-2232-4a58-af16-495a95d7afc5
5939bb74-8741-4fd4-879b-d93cc61b69b4
CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12
CERD
2025-05-13
2,025
Recommendations
[ "Kyrgyzstan" ]
[ "Asia-Pacific" ]
[ "People of African Descent", "Minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups" ]
[ "Equality & non-discrimination", "Cooperation & Follow up with Treaty Bodies", "Racial discrimination", "Right to peaceful assembly" ]
[ "16.10 - Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms", "10.3 - Ensure equal opportunities and end discrimination" ]
International Decade for People of African Descent 49. In its resolution 79/193, the General Assembly proclaimed 2025–2034 the Second International Decade for People of African Descent. Also in that resolution, the Assembly decided to extend the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade...
49. In its resolution 79/193, the General Assembly proclaimed 2025–2034 the Second International Decade for People of African Descent. Also in that resolution, the Assembly decided to extend the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent adopted in resolutio...
CERD | Kyrgyzstan | CERD/C/KGZ/CO/11-12 | 2025 | DocumentId: 6d55567f-537f-4fe9-8916-4a991208c3f8 | AnnotationId: 5939bb74-8741-4fd4-879b-d93cc61b69b4