Like other Pacific-island nations that this platform has reported on (like Samoa and Tonga), Tuvalu had yet to report any COVID-19 cases as of October 2020. In March, the country instituted a State of Emergency and shut its borders to all inbound flights and vessels. Tuvalu has one hospital for its approximately 11,000-person population, with […]
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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
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INTERNATIONAL TREATIES
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Ratio: 5/19
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Committee on the Rights of the Child
§ 51. The State party consider ratifying the following core human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party: (
a) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
(b) The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
(c) The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
(d) The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
(e) The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
(f) The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
2020
2020
