OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN, SAMOA
Samoa’s Second Universal Periodic Review
Implementation Comments
Recommendation
Position
75.10.Sign the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Morocco);
Supported
(See para.
5
addendum
p. 2)
Not implemented
See comment 75.8.
75.11.Consider ratifying the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(Slovenia, United Kingdom); consider the possibility of acceding to and/or ratifying the Optional
Protocols of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Ecuador);
Supported
(See para.
5
addendum
p. 2)
Not implemented
See comment 75.8.
75.12.Ratify the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Maldives);
Supported
(See para.
5
addendum
p. 2)
Not implemented
See comment 75.8.
76.1.Consider the possibility of acceding to and/or ratifying International Labour Organization
Convention No. 169 (1989) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent
Countries (Ecuador);
Noted
Not implemented
Cooperation with treaty bodies
73.27.Request assistance from OHCHR in preparing a common core document to streamline
treaty reporting (Maldives);
Supported
NHRI unable to
comment
Cooperation with special procedures
73.28.Issue a standing invitation to the United Nations special procedures (Slovenia);
consider extending a standing invitation to the United Nations special procedures (Brazil);
Supported
NHRI unable to
comment
Cooperation with international with other international mechanisms and institutions
73.26.Continue to seek technical cooperation and assistance from the international community,
such as OHCHR and UNFPA, in relevant areas, particularly capacity-building for preparing its
national reports under human rights conventions to which Samoa is a party (Thailand);
Supported
Implemented
Supported
Partly
Constitutional and legislative framework
75.29.Take appropriate measures to make the promotion of gender equality an explicit
component of its national development plan and policies and to include in its Constitution or
21
Some measures to promote
gender equality are included in