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State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Early marriage
- Harmful practices based on cultural / traditional values
Type:Review DocumentationSession:25th session, May 2016Status:N/AContents:A review of national policies and legislation to ensure conformity with regional and international agreements was completed. Areas for legal reform identified in the report included the ... the ages of marriage in Trinidad and Tobago; ... [Para 79] -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Adolescent sexual activity
- Criminal laws on same-sex sexual practices
Type:Review DocumentationSession:25th session, May 2016Status:Reference AddressedContents:While recent legislation decriminalized non-coercive sexual relations between minors who were close in age in non-familiar or custodial relationships, it explicitly withheld the decriminalization provision in the case of children of the same sex. That made non-coercive sexual activity between minors of the same sex subject to life imprisonment, regardless of their ages. [Para 20; UN Country Team] -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Sexual violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:25th session, May 2016Status:Reference AddressedContents:SOGIE1 was concerned that the 2000 amendments did not include the definitions of rape and grievous sexual assault in the Sexual Offences Act. They are prosecuted using section 16 "serious indecency", which carries a far lesser sentence if both parties are adults, of five years (ten for a subsequent offence). [Para 14] -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Sexuality education
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:Review DocumentationSession:12th session, October 2011Status:NeglectedContents:Formulate adolescent health policies and programmes, with the participation of adolescents, with particular focus on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, especially through reproductive health education and child-sensitive counselling services; take measures to incorporate sexual and reproductive health education in school curricula; and consider means of providing particular support to pregnant teenagers. [Para 52; CRC] -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:United KingdomUnited KingdomRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUCommonwealthIssue:
- Sexual harassment
Type:QuestionSession:12th session, October 2011Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:It asked when existing legislation on sexual harassment [...] would be implemented -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:CanadaCanadaRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupOASOIFCommonwealthIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Sexual violence
Type:RecommendationSession:39th Session, November 2021Status:AcceptedContents:Take stronger measures to prevent, mitigate and respond to sexual and gender-based violence, including providing adequate financial, staffing and other technical support for the full implementation of the Gender-based Violence Unit. -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:IcelandIcelandRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Intersex persons' rights
- International human rights instruments
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:39th Session, November 2021Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Establish a well resourced national human rights mechanism in line with the Paris Principles, to address discrimination and violence against LGBTI+ persons.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:MauritiusMauritiusRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOIFCommonwealthIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:39th Session, November 2021Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Adopt a coherent strategy to ensure universal access to education for all, including girls and prevent their early drop-outs from school.ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:Trinidad & TobagoTrinidad & TobagoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASACSCommonwealthSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
- Gender perspective in policies, programmes
Type:Review DocumentationSession:12th session, October 2011Status:NeglectedContents:Ensure that governmental policies to eradicate poverty are continuous, incorporate a gender perspective, and do not marginalize women. Revise and/or establish a social security policy along with a clear and coherent family policy in the framework of poverty reduction strategy, paying particular attention to marginalized groups including female-headed households. [Paras 47, 48; CEDAW, CRC] -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:Reference AddressedContents:CEDAW acknowledged the firm determination of Tunisia to achieve gender equality. Nevertheless, it urged Tunisia to put in place a comprehensive strategy to eliminate patriarchal attitudes and stereotypes that discriminated against women ... [Para 20] -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:Review DocumentationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:NeglectedContents:AI recommended that Tunisia amend or abolish all laws that discriminated on the basis of ... gender identity ... [Para 17] -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:UruguayUruguayRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Criminal laws on same-sex sexual practices
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Repeal Art. 230 of the Criminal Code that criminalizes same-sex relations.
ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:IcelandIcelandRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Legally recognize the gender identity of trans persons.
ExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:VenezuelaVenezuelaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Gender equality
- Empowerment of women
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Continue advancing in the implementation of strategies aimed at empowering women and achieving gender equality.
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State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:MexicoMexicoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:AcceptedContents:Adopt measures so that Organic Law 2017-58 on the elimination of violence against women is fully implemented, including its provisions on access to justice for victims of violence.
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State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:Review DocumentationSession:1st session, April 2008Status:N/AContents:Having ratified nearly all the international human rights instruments, Tunisia wishes to announce, to launch its participation in the universal periodic review, that a bill to ratify the CRPD is currently before the Chamber of Deputies. [Para 10] -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:Review DocumentationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:N/AContents:Tunisia has been careful to submit is national reports to all treaty bodies. Since 2017, it has submitted its periodic report under the CEDAW and its combined report under the CRPD. In March 2020, its national report under the ICCPR was discussed and, in May 2021, its combined report under the CRC. [Para 10] -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:41st session, November 2022Status:Reference AddressedContents:The HR Committee recommended that Tunisia amend the discriminatory provisions of the Personal Status Code, particularly those concerning marriage, inheritance and child custody, with the aim of giving full effect to the principle of gender equality enshrined in the Constitution and the Covenant. The country team made similar recommendations. [Para 31]
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State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:MauritaniaMauritaniaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:CommentSession:1st session, April 2008Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:Mauritania praised the reforms that were undertaken to reform the family code and to ensure that women fully enjoy equality with men. -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:UruguayUruguayRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- International human rights instruments
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Align the legislative amendments to the Constitution with CEDAW, reforming the laws that are discriminatory to women -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:ZambiaZambiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUCommonwealthIssue:
- Marital rape
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Sexual violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Amend the Criminal Code to abolish provisions allowing a perpetrator of sexual violence to escape prosecution by marrying the victim or allowing the prosecution, trial or execution of the sentence to be dropped when the victim retracts the complaint and explicitly criminalize marital rape -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:MoroccoMoroccoRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupOICALOIFIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:AcceptedContents:Pursue the process of adoption of the basic law concerning the elimination of violence against women -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:IrelandIrelandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Develop public awareness programmes to address stigmatization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex personsExplanationNoted. -
State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:Review DocumentationSession:27th Session May 2017Status:Reference AddressedContents:CAT and the United Nations country team invited Tunisia to consider ratifying (...) OP-ICESCR and the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a communications procedure.
CESCR invited Tunisia to ratify OP-ICESCR.
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State Under Review:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFSource Of Reference:OmanOmanRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICALIssue:
- Women's participation
Type:RecommendationSession:13th session, June 2012Status:AcceptedContents:Continue to support policies for the promotion of the full and equal participation of women in decision-making in all spheres of public, political and professional life.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 70) The Ministry for Women, the Family and Children protects the rights acquired by women even before the promulgation of the Constitution. With a view to ensuring that women have access to its services in both urban and rural areas, 24 regional delegations for women’s and family affairs were established in 2013 to cover the entire territory of the Republic. The Ministry was restructured with the aim of supporting equality of opportunity and gender equality, integrating women into social and economic life, and promoting the economic empowerment of women by creating administrative bodies tasked with monitoring and opposing discrimination and violence against them, an economic empowerment authority and an authority for the advancement of rural women.
Para 72) Equality was institutionalized in 2016 though the creation of the Peer Council for Equality and Equality of Opportunity, a body that seeks to introduce a gender- based approach to planning, programming, evaluation and budgeting in order to eliminate all forms of discrimination between women and men. With a view to ensuring equality in employment and wages, which is enshrined in the legislation, the labour inspection authorities adopt deterrent measures to address non-compliance by employers with the relevant provisions of the Labour Code.
Para 76) The provisions of Decree No. 35 of 2011, which enshrined the principle of parity between women and men in rotation-based electoral lists, helped to increase the number of women in the National Constituent Assembly. However, they occupied only 65 of the 217 seats, that is to say 29.95 per cent. The percentage recorded in the 2014 legislative elections rose to 31.3 per cent of the seats in the Assembly of Representatives of the People. This ratio evolved when vacancies occurred in the Assembly, rising to 34.56 per cent, or 75 seats occupied by women. As a result, the principle of horizontal and vertical parity was enshrined in the electoral bill for the municipalities, which will lead to an increase in the participation of women in local government.
Para 77) In 2012 a number of programmes and activities were organized to encourage women to participate in public and political life by raising women voters’ awareness of the initiative aimed at including them in electoral lists, involving them in voting procedures, and supporting their participation in the running of polling stations and the monitoring of elections. The events included an international seminar on the political participation of women in October 2012.
Para 78) The Ministry of National Defence organized a seminar on future perspectives for women members of the armed forces in the context of the 5+5 Defence Initiative. The seminar was attended by various stakeholders from Tunisia and abroad. It established a committee to study the situation of women in the armed forces with a view to combating various forms of gender-based discrimination. Women have also been involved in all areas of military action and enabled to occupy a number of leadership positions.
Para 79) In the area of employment, a national programme was established to promote women’s economic initiatives by creating a special credit line and introducing facilitating conditions. In addition, training, assistance and support has been provided for women entrepreneurs. The programme is supervised by a management unit to ensure its compliance with the objectives of the programme to promote equality between women and men that was established in 2016.
Para 80) Many programmes have been developed to support the economic and social empowerment of women, in particular the integrated national project to prevent school dropout among girls in rural areas, which is implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of the Interior and the Al-Madanya civil society association, which supports rural school transport. A multisectoral agreement was signed for the purpose in April 2015. A study is currently being conducted of the employment of women in rural areas and the extent to which they benefit from social welfare in five governorates.
Para 81) A literacy education programme was launched in 2016. It is based on a Prime Ministerial Decree of 17 December 2015 concerning the introduction of a literacy education programme involving the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry for Women, the Family and Children, and the Ministry of Education. In October 2016 a protocol specifying the terms and conditions to be met by parties involved in transporting female employees in the agricultural sector was signed.
UN Compilation:
Para 72) HRW noted that the 2014 Constitution provides improved protection for women’s rights and obligates Tunisia to work towards achieving gender parity in elected assemblies during national, regional and municipal elections.