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eakdowns.The following is the list of the ten most frequently cited issues by SuR, with regionalTable 15Issues by Percentage and SuR Regional DistributionIssue% of TotalRecommendationsSuR RegionAfrica Asia EEG GRULAC WEOG %Internationalinstruments 18 24 32 10 14 20 100Women 16.2 32 33 10 14 11 100Children 13.7 39 24 12 14 11 100Justice 8.2 25 26 13 31 5 100Torture 7.3 36 34 9 11 10 100Treaty bodies 5.1 25 23 13 18 21 100Detention conditions 4.4 25 30 14 18 13 100Special procedures4.3 25 45 9 13 8 100Minorities 4.1 9 18 52 5 16 10028
The highest percentage of recommendations in this table (53%) were to East Europeanstates regarding treatment of minorities, such as the Roma. Asia also received 44% ofrecommendations for use of HRC Special Procedures (typically visits of Special Rapporteurs ongeographic or thematic issues). Africa and Asia also both received 30% or over ofrecommendations pertaining to the death penalty (almost all of the UPR death penaltyrecommendations were to ban capital punishment), torture and women’s issues. By contrast, thelargest set of issues (40%) devoted to EEG were related to treatment of minorities. The onlyissue above 20% (29%) made to GRULAC were recommendations relating to the justice sector.Issues of focus in the WEOG region were migrants (43%) and minorities (22%).The following is the list of most frequently cited issues with regional breakdowns byrecommending states.Table 16Issues by Percentage and Recommending State Regional DistributionIssue% of TotalRecommendationsRecommending Regional GroupAfrica Asia EEG GRULAC WEOG %Internationalinstruments 18 10 7 16 31 36 100Women 16.2 11 14 15 14 46 100Children 13.7 10 14 17 15 44 100Justice 8.2 8 10 14 15 53 100Torture 7.3 5 6 19 19 51 100Treaty bodies 5.1 13 14 14 15 44 10029
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Page 22 and 23: Asia-Africa 12 38 6 35 8 100Asia-As
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