Universal Periodic Review of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Digi Mart USA News: France delivered its intervention on November 3 during the 53rd session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, according to a publication by the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
France welcomed progress made by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in women’s participation in political life and in access to education.
France recommended that the country establish a moratorium on the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which aims to abolish the death penalty.
France also recommended guaranteeing the protection of LGBTI+ persons and combating discrimination and harassment against them, including by decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations.
Further recommendations called on the country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
France also urged stronger efforts to combat gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence.
