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Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should ensure that the restructuring of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud does not weaken their respective …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should strengthen the resources of the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, who will be stripped of the mandate of dealing with individual cases, …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should renounce the envisaged budget cuts for non-governmental organizations providing legal aid to vulnerable groups of women and allocate sufficient human, technical …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should bring its Penal Code fully into line with the Optional Protocol, including by ensuring that it explicitly prohibits the sale of …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should apply sanctions to the purchase of sexual services from children and for activities involving child pornography that take into account the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should adopt specific legislation on the obligations of Internet service providers in relation to child pornography on the Internet.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should abolish the requirement of double criminality regarding extraterritorial jurisdiction for offences related to the Optional Protocol.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should make the necessary legislative amendments to ensure that children who are victims of sexual exploitation abroad and in the context of …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plans
  The State party should include a gender-sensitive rather than gender-neutral approach in its legislation, policies and programmes, in line with paragraph 5 of the Committee’s …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Finance
  The State party should strengthen the gender equality and non-discrimination requirements in the Assessment Procedure Instructions.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should take the necessary measures to ensure that the new Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law does not erode structural activities for the promotion …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  While taking note of the State party’s explanation, the Committee invites the State party to reconsider amending its current definition of torture in domestic legislation, …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should guarantee the freedom of thought, conscience and religion equally to all citizens and should include this right in the human rights …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsRatification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should fully incorporate the Covenant rights into its domestic legal order with a constitutional rank equal to that of civil and political …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should enhance training for judges, lawyers and public officials on the Covenant and the justiciability of the rights therein.
• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign AffairsMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ratify the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Finance
  The State party should strengthen human rights impact assessments in the process of legislation and policy development.

Recommended measures (6)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansRatification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Culture
  The State party should incorporate the Convention into national law, revise its legislation in line with the Convention and develop a comprehensive strategy and action …
• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Foreign Affairs
  The State party should consider withdrawing its interpretative declarations on articles 12, 14 and 25 of the Convention.
• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  The State party should ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should adopt the human rights model of disability in all regulations relating to the assessment of disability, in accordance with the criteria …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should take all measures necessary to reduce the differences between the services offered by the different municipalities to persons with disabilities through …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should provide sustainable financial support for organizations of persons with disabilities.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the amendment to article 8 (6) of the Convention adopted on 15 January 1992 at the fourteenth …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Bearing in mind the indivisibility of all human rights, the Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that it …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationFollow-up of recommendationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Culture
  The Committee recommends that the Convention be incorporated into the Human Rights Act. It also recommends that the State party ensure that the Equality and …