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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:BelgiumBelgiumRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOIFIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Strengthen measures to combat discrimination based on gender, race or sexual orientation.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:AlgeriaAlgeriaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALIssue:
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Continue the policy of preventing domestic violence and all other forms of violence by tackling their root causes.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:LuxembourgLuxembourgRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOIFIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Continue to take steps to combat and prevent domestic violence against women and children, and ensure that victims have access to recourse mechanisms.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UzbekistanUzbekistanRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICCISIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Take specific measures to reduce wage gaps between men and women and eliminate its causes at all levels.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:MaltaMaltaRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUCommonwealthIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Continue allocating adequate funding to combat violence against women.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:Review DocumentationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:Reference AddressedContents:CEDAW urged Portugal to strengthen its efforts to combat trafficking in women and children and to prevent the trafficking of women who lived in poverty and were at high risk of trafficking. ... [Para 28] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:SpainSpainRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEIIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:19th session, May 2014Status:AcceptedContents:Continue providing the means necessary to avoid pay differences based on gender.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 79) The following measures illustrate Portugal’s commitment to fight women’s discrimination in the workplace: • Law 60/2018 approved measures to promote equal pay for men and women for equal work and work of equal value; • Law 62/2017 defines minimum thresholds of both sexes in boards and supervisory bodies of public (33%) and listed companies (20% as from 2018 and 33% as from 2020). These companies must draw up and publish annual equality plans; • In February 2019, Parliament approved a Government bill that sets a minimum of 40% of both sexes in public administration senior officials, managing bodies of public higher education institutions; professional and public associations; • Decree-Law 84/2015 provides for financial support to employers that hire unemployed jobseekers of the under-represented sex in a particular occupation; • Two new web tools (a self-assessment survey and a gender pay gap calculator) by the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment that enable companies to analyse their personnel pay structure and understand whether the pay differences are gender-based; • A Time Use Survey project that collected data on the time used on paid and unpaid work by men and women; • In 2014, the project “Sexual and Moral Harassment in the Workplace” collected data and raised awareness on moral and sexual harassment in the labour market; • Law 73/2017 reinforces the regime on the prevention of harassment at work.
Para 80) The Portuguese Authority for Labour Conditions carries out inspections (in 2017: to 86 entities, covering a total of 2.532 workers); organises awareness-raising initiatives on equality and non-discrimination directed to students, workers, employers and civil society; has a hotline phone number and its website contains specific information on these topics.
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Para 39) … CoE-ECSR referred to the right to equal opportunities and treatment in employment and occupation without sex discrimination and noted that in equal pay cases, legislation only permitted comparisons of pay between employees working for the same company.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:Review DocumentationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:EU-FRA noted that married or cohabitating heterosexual or lesbian couples, as well as all women irrespective of their civil status or sexual orientation were entitled to assisted reproduction. [Para 37]
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:VietnamVietnamRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANOIFIssue:
- Training for state personnel on sexual rights issues
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:19th session, May 2014Status:AcceptedContents:Expand the human rights education campaign to law enforcement officers, especially on the rights of women ...ImplementationNational Report:
Para 169) The Centre for Judicial Studies provides training on HR to judges and public prosecutors on, inter alia, the jurisprudence of the European Court of HR, …, DV, FGM, …
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:Reference AddressedContents:UNESCO recommended that Portugal strengthen its efforts to address discrimination in access to education, which continued to occur in practice, especially against ..., women and girls, … [Para 39]
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Discrimination based on gender identity
- Violence on the basis of gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:19th session, May 2014Status:N/AContents:... In February 2013, gender identity was included in the legal definitions of the crime of discrimination and bias-motivated crimes (qualified homicide and qualified offense to physical integrity) under the Criminal Code (CC). [Para 17] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:19th session, May 2014Status:NeglectedContents:ILGA recommended the adoption of a comprehensive anti-discrimination law covering all areas of social and economic life, including the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. JS1 recommended promptly reviewing all legislation and measures in this field. [Para 14] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:AzerbaijanAzerbaijanRegional groupEEGPolitical groupOICCISIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:QuestionSession:6th session, December 2009Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Enquired about measures being implemented by the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality to effectively address discrimination against women, and gender equality. -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:ChileChileRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:6th session, December 2009Status:AcceptedContents:Continue enforcing measures to reduce violence against women.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 7) A number of comprehensive human rights policy instruments have been approved: the 4th and 5th National Plans against Domestic/Gender-Based Violence (2011-2013 and 2014-2017)
Para 11) Within the Council of Europe framework, Portugal ratified ... the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
Para 32) In February 2013, legal amendments were introduced in order to extend the concept of domestic violence to dating and other intimate relationships without cohabitation. Concerning issues of "prosecution and punishment", we recall that Portugal has accepted recommendations 103.5 and 103.6 "on the understanding that they are to be interpreted as meaning that the Government accepts to facilitate prosecution and sanction through the enactment and implementation of legislation and other administrative measures". Data on the relationship between defendant and victim in murder crimes are now collected, and efforts have been made to standardise reporting and data collection procedures (in courts, prosecution services and police stations) concerning victims of domestic violence, results of investigations and final court decisions, including the creation of a website and a database.
Para 33) Special teams to investigate crimes of domestic violence, to undertake preventive action and to deal with victims in police stations have been established. Public prosecution is developing integrated responses to accelerate the investigation of crimes of domestic violence and adequately protect victims, including women, children and the elderly. Guidelines and technical assistance are being provided to help courts assess the risk of re- occurrence of domestic violence. Violence against elderly women has recently been an issue of particular focus, with the active participation of law enforcement agencies and public prosecutors in the EU Project "Mind the Gap" (comprising research, awareness- raising and training activities, and exchange of best practices).
Para 34) Prevention efforts include measures to reduce social acceptance of domestic and gender-based violence, promote equality, eliminate gender stereotypes and empower women and girls, such as annual awareness-raising campaigns to inform women of their rights and promote their ability to report. Specific training sessions have been provided to, inter alia, social workers, public prosecutors, security forces, teachers and medical staff.
Para 35) Measures have been adopted in the area of forensic medicine, such as training courses for medical experts dealing with domestic violence cases, scientific meetings, protocols to coordinate interventions in this area and the creation of a dedicated hospital unit, with specific rules of procedure, to help victims.
Para 37) A number of provisions have been introduced to regulate aspects covered by the Act on the prevention of domestic violence and on the protection of and assistance to its victims, adopted in September 2009. These include the recognition of the status of victim (to all alleged victims as soon as a domestic violence incident is reported); the urgent nature of domestic violence proceedings (a Constitutional Court decision of 2012 has underlined the urgent nature of these cases); the use of remote surveillance means to control perpetrators (mandatory since February 2013); possibility to arrest perpetrators even if not caught in the act ...
Para 38) Prevention of re-offending through work with perpetrators is an innovative area of intervention: a pilot project in this area has been extended in order to cover the entire Portuguese territory and programmes are ongoing, within and outside prisons, to rehabilitate and reintegrate such offenders, including through the implementation of individualised plans.
Para 41) A nationwide prevention and victim protection strategy was implemented in the last decade, in partnership with civil society. This strategy included annual information campaigns: in 2010, the focus was on encouraging reporting of domestic violence; in 2011 on marital homicides; and in 2012 on vicarious victimisation. Measures adopted by law enforcement agencies, namely within community policing strategies, include an increase in the number of agents in victim-support teams, the creation and improvement of dedicated facilities for victims in police stations, and activities undertaken within the "Safe School" programme. Initiatives specifically targeted at children and youngsters include the introduction in school curricula, from the earliest grades, of contents relating to gender equality, domestic and gender-based violence.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:Review DocumentationSession:6th session, December 2009Status:N/AContents:Regarding the increasingly worrying phenomena of sexual crimes against minors committed in the context of new information technologies and telecommunications, a Protocol was celebrated between the Portuguese Criminal Police and the Ministry of Education in the area of prevention of these crimes. Through this Protocol, investigation agents from the Judiciary Police with expertise in the area of sexual criminality against minors and information technologies help in the training and increasing awareness of teachers and parent's associations' to the dangers associated with the use of modern information technologies in their relation with sexual crimes. These preventive actions will help to minimize the exposure of children to these crimes.
Additionally, the Criminal Police participates in conferences, actions and other initiatives organized under the aegis of both public entities and NGOs directed to minors, parents and professionals, where these themes are discussed.
Through these preventive efforts, minors are alerted to the risks and are encouraged to report crimes of sexual nature directly to competent authorities or through the hotline created for this purpose in the context of the European programme Internet Safer Plus. This line intends
to provide for a safe and confidential environment where the general public can report illegal contents accessible through the Internet (namely child pornography) aiming at blocking illegal sites and criminal prosecution of offenders who make them available. [Paras 111-113] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:6th session, December 2009Status:Reference AddressedContents:CEDAW called on Portugal to ensure the full implementation of legislation on violence against women, and prosecution and conviction of perpetrators. Concerned about reports of numerous cases of domestic violence affecting women and children, and the high number of deaths among women due to such violence ... CEDAW recommended that Portugal ensure that a sufficient number of safe crisis centres and shelters are available to women victims of violence in all parts of Portugal, staffed by expert personnel, with adequate financial resources. [Para 26] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:6th session, December 2009Status:NeglectedContents:CEDAW called on Portugal to continue efforts to strengthen rural women's and girls' access to education and formal vocational training and to encourage them to pursue their education after primary school. It recommended taking targeted measures to ensure that women working on family farms have real possibilities to acquire formal training in farming to enhance their economic empowerment. [Para 51] -
State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Maternal health / morbidity / mortality
- Marginalized groups of women
- Right to health
Type:Review DocumentationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:N/AContents:Health is a priority area in the integration of migrants. Both regular and irregular migrants have access to the National Health Service under the same conditions as Portuguese citizens. Minors and pregnant women are exempted from fees, regardless of their legal status, as are asylum seekers, refugees and their families. [Para 60]
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:BelarusBelarusRegional groupEEGPolitical groupCISIssue:
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) regarding the intensification of efforts to combat human trafficking, including to improve mechanisms for identification and rehabilitation of victims as well as addressing the root causes of trafficking.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:PhilippinesPhilippinesRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Intensify public awareness activities to prevent domestic violence against women and children and ensure that victims have effective access to complaint mechanisms.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:GreeceGreeceRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOIFIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Continue steps to combat and prevent domestic violence against women and children.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:BangladeshBangladeshRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICCommonwealthIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Adopt measures to reduce the gender pay gap.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:MyanmarMyanmarRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupASEANIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Enhance efforts for the promotion and protection of women’s rights and gender equality.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UzbekistanUzbekistanRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICCISIssue:
- Women's participation
Type:RecommendationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:AcceptedContents:Enlarge women’s participation in political life and their representation in management positions.
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State Under Review:PortugalPortugalRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOEISource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
Type:Review DocumentationSession:33rd Session, May 2019Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:[CRC] recommended that Portugal ensure that all offences under the OP-CRC-SC were criminalized, that it define, regulate and criminalize the sale of children in accordance with article 3 of the Optional Protocol, and that it ensure that all elements of the Optional Protocol, including the sale of children for forced labour and the transfer of organs for profit, were prohibited. The Committee also recommended ensuring that all child victims of the offences covered by the Optional Protocol were provided with access to adequate procedures to seek compensation, without discrimination. [Para 49]