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MALAYSIA-SOGI-UPR-CYCLE4

Country: Malaysia

Issue: SOGI

Human rights mechanism: UPR

UPR cycle: 4 (2022-2027)

Incoming recommendations: (Link)

  • 55.66 Enact comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to protect individuals at risk of discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability and age (Israel) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.300 Repeal or amend laws and policies that discriminate against persons based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (United States of America) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.301 Repeal all laws, regulations and measures that criminalize or discriminate against persons based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (Finland) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.302 Repeal all legislation that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (Germany) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.303 Repeal all laws, regulations and measures that criminalize or discriminate against persons of diverse sexual orientation or gender identities and expressions or sexual characteristics (Iceland) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.304 Repeal sections 377A–C of the Penal Code that criminalize same-sex relations in order to guarantee and protect the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons (Ireland) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.305 Repeal all laws that directly and indirectly criminalize same-sex sexual activities (Israel) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.306 Eliminate legal provisions that criminalize persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and eliminate conversion or rehabilitation practices (Mexico) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.307 Repeal laws that criminalize or discriminate against LGTBI persons based on their sexual orientation or gender identity (Spain) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.308 Repeal laws that discriminate and penalize based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression (Argentina) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.309 Decriminalize homosexuality (France) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.310 Repeal laws that directly or indirectly criminalize same-sex sexual relations (Luxembourg) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.311 Take steps to tackle discrimination against LGBT individuals, including by supporting the adoption and implementation of the United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business (United Kingdom) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.312 Take effective measures to end hostility and intolerance on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity as recommended by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (Cyprus) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.313 Take immediate and effective measures to end hostility and intolerance on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and provide meaningful protection to LGBTI persons against all forms of stigmatization, violence and discrimination (Montenegro) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.314 Take steps to eliminate legislation and policies that discriminate based on sexual orientation, gender non-conformity and/or criminalize same-sex relations (New Zealand) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.315 Ban conversion therapies, including mukhayyam rehabilitation programmes (Iceland) [SUPPORTED]
  • 55.316 End all forms of censorship of material on sexual orientation or gender identities and expressions or sexual characteristics, both online and offline (Iceland) [SUPPORTED]

Outgoing recommendations:

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This content was last updated in July 2024