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Universal Periodic Review 49: UK Statement on Kiribati

UK Statement on Kiribati, delivered at Kiribati's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

From:
UK Mission to the WTO, UN and other international organisations (Geneva)
Published
28 April 2025

Thank you, Mr President,

The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the delegation. We recognise the 바카라 사이트 of Kiribati바카라 사이트™s positive engagement with this process and progress made since the last Universal Periodic Review. The United Kingdom commends ambitious reforms to social protection systems, including support provided to senior citizens and persons with disabilities. 

We urge the 바카라 사이트 to enhance efforts to address the high levels of gender-based violence, advance work to end discrimination, and guarantee the protection of all individuals.

We recommend that Kiribati:

  1. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

  2. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

  3. Renew efforts to enshrine protection from discrimination on the basis of gender, gender identity and expression and sexual orientation; and to decriminalise consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex within the Constitution.

Thank you.

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Published 28 April 2025