Sao Tome and Principe

International Migrants

2,139

2020

Population

200,000

2023

International Migrants as % of Population

0.98%

2020

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

01 March 2021 – Sao Tome and Principe

The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, a former Portuguese colony located in the Gulf of Guinea in Western Africa, had reported a total of 1,786 COVID-19 cases, representing less than one percent of its population (215,000), as of February 2021. There is little information available about the impact of the pandemic on migrants […]

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R. Graça, “São Tomé e Príncipe: Mortes por Covid-19 disparam e população ignora a doença,” DW, 25 February 2021, https://www.dw.com/pt-002/s%C3%A3o-tom%C3%A9-e-pr%C3%ADncipe-mortes-por-covid-19-disparam-e-popula%C3%A7%C3%A3o-ignora-a-doen%C3%A7a/a-56699946
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DETENTION STATISTICS

Total Migration Detainees: Flow + Stock (year)
Not Available
2019

DETAINEE DATA

Total Number of Children Placed in Immigration Detention (Year)
0
2017

DETENTION CAPACITY

ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION

ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT DATA

PRISON DATA

Criminal Prison Population (Year)
178
2016
185
2011
240
2009
155
2005
130
2002
99
1994
87
1992
Percentage of Foreign Prisoners (Year)
0.8
2002
Prison Population Rate (per 100,000 of National Population)
85
2016
101
2011
139
2009
99
2005
90
2002
77
1994
71
1992

POPULATION DATA

Population (Year)
200,000
2023
200,000
2020
International Migrants (Year)
2,139
2020
2,174
2019
International Migrants as Percentage of Population (Year)
0.98
2020

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA & POLLS

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

Legal Tradition(s)
Customary law
2017
Civil law
2017

LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

GROUNDS FOR MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

Children & Other Vulnerable Groups
Unaccompanied minors (Not mentioned) No
2015
Accompanied minors (Not mentioned) No
2015

LENGTH OF MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION INSTITUTIONS

PROCEDURAL STANDARDS & SAFEGUARDS

DETENTION MONITORS

> National human rights monitoring bodies

> National Preventive Mechanisms (Optional Protocol to UN Convetion against Torture)

> Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

> Governmental monitoring bodies

> International detention monitoring

TRANSPARENCY

READMISSION/RETURN/EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS

COVID-19

HEALTH CARE

COVID-19 DATA

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

International Treaties Ratified
Ratification Year
Observation Date
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2017
2018
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2006
2017
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2006
2017
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1978
2017
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2015
2017
ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
2017
2017
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1991
2017
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2017
2017
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
2003
2017
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
2017
2017
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2017
2017
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
2017
2017
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1983
2017
Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified
Ratio: 13/19
Individual Complaints Procedures
Acceptance Year
CEDAW, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1999 2017
2017
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 2017
2017
Ratio of Complaints Procedures Accepted
Observation Date
2/8
2017

NON-TREATY-BASED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Relevant Recommendations from the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2011
2017
No 2015
2017

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Regional Legal Instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
Observation Date
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1986
1986
2017

DETENTION COSTS

OUTSOURCING

FOREIGN SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR DETENTION OPERATIONS