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Naciones Unidas A/HRC/42/NI/4 Asamblea General Distr. general 4 de septiembre de 2019 Español Original: inglés A/HRC/42/NI/4 2 GE.19-15148 Annex Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission: mid-term report on the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is a statutory public body established in 1999 to promote and protect human rights. (...) In response to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd cycle recommendations, the UK Government reiterated its full commitment to the UPR process, volunteering to publish an update report by May 20181 and a mid-term report by May this year. The mid-term report is now overdue. (...) Dealing with the past 1st cycle: 12 A 2nd cycle: 110.92 R 3rd cycle: 134.156 N 134.157 N In December 2014, the Stormont House Agreement was concluded between the main NI political parties and the UK and Irish Governments.11 The Stormont House Agreement proposed, inter alia, the establishment of a single independent investigatory body, the Historical Investigations Unit, to carry out investigations into over 1,200 conflict-related deaths.

“Secondary homelessness” refers to those moving frequently from one form of temporary shelter to another, including people using emergency accommodation, people residing temporarily with other households and those using boarding houses on a short-term basis. “Tertiary homelessness” refers to people who live in boarding houses on a medium- to long-term basis. (...) This includes people renting caravans on a medium- to long-term basis where no one in the caravan has a full-time job. (...) Numerous testimonies were given to the Special Rapporteur of long-term homeless situations and the lack of possibilities to end the cycle of homelessness.

Sec. 5. Appointment and Term of Office. – The Chairperson and Members shall be appointed by the President for a term of seven (7) years without reappointment. (...) Appointment to any vacancy occurring during the term shall be only for the remaining portion of said term. (...) They shall meet not later than three (3) months before the end of a current term or within a week after the occurrence of a vacancy during a term.

The Special Rapporteur also visited a short-term transitional housing project for abused women and children that is being developed in Cape Town. (...) These houses were unfortunately inadequate to meet the housing needs of their inhabitants. (...) The Special Rapporteur was disturbed to learn that a significant number of long-term black farm dwellers had also been evicted or displaced since 1994.

The Commission consists of nine Commissioners appointed by the President for a five-year term. It is mandated to monitor the human rights situation, promote and protect human rights, conduct investigations into human rights violations and take measures for the improvement and promotion of human rights nationwide. (...) If a woman runs to escape harassment and disturbance by family members and goes to a relative’s house, the house of a legitimate mahram (unmarriageable kin) or to a justice institution, then this shall not be regarded as a crime from the sharia perspective. (...) A/HRC/29/27/Add.3 15-07433 12/21 Code and are expected to define short-term imprisonment as ranging from three months to one year; medium-term imprisonment as one year to five years, and long- term imprisonment as 5 to 15 years or 15 to 20 years, depending on the crime.22 40.

Moreover, under the former regime, tenants benefited from strict, long-term rent control, in which case many paid a nominal sum each month. (...) First, the adoption in June 2008 of an administrative rule, Portaria 517/2008, allowing for rental of apartments, houses and rooms for temporary accommodation; second, as a result of the New Urban Rental Regime, which allows the eviction of existing tenants where a building is to be renovated, more owners are A/HRC/34/51/Add.2 GE.17-03318 13 investing in renovations then leasing out their properties on a short-term basis in order to recover expenses as swiftly as possible; and third, the increases in the tourist industry in Portugal, especially in Porto and Lisbon. 63. (...) In addition, only a few neighbourhoods in the historic centres of Lisbon and Porto have more than 10 per cent of their housing stock devoted to short-term accommodation. 64. Short-term rentals, especially when they become the primary form of occupation of specific neighbourhoods, can weaken community networks and the social fabric of a city, which in turn undermines the promotion of long-term rental as an essential tenure system for local residents.

The Head of State is elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term and the President appoints the Prime Minister, who forms the Government, presides over the Council of Ministers, promulgates laws and is the Commander of the Armed Forces. (...) Extreme acts of violence have also occurred, underscoring the long-term nature and complexity of the challenges France has faced, including the Vitry-le-François train bombing of 1961 in which 28 persons were killed and over 100 injured. (...) It embodies the principle of national solidarity, supports the legal capacities and autonomy of victims and provides responsive measures to meet the immediate and long-term needs of victims. The robustness of the country’s system in respect of victims is enabled by a compulsory levy on property insurance policies.

She was sentenced to a one-year term, but this was increased to three years on appeal. (...) In general, the conditions encountered include overcrowding and degrading living conditions in buildings which are ill-equipped to house people on a long-term or permanent basis. (...) Public safe houses can only accept victims referred by the CSWs or police.

As they now return to their cities and villages and see their demolished houses, the children are reliving those frightening events. (...) Teachers and school administrators have been given methodological assistance in working with children experiencing psychological trauma. A short-term training course has been conducted for a group of 14 volunteer staff members from the South Ossetia Youth Affairs Committee on providing primary psychological assistance to victims. (...) The violation of the right of children to housing is expected to have long-term consequences given that many of the houses where refugees had been living were destroyed, making their return to their homeland difficult, if not impossible.

In resolution 6/34, the Council requested the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan to ensure effective follow-up and to foster the implementation of the remaining short-term and the medium-term recommendations identified in the first report of the Group of Experts (A/HRC/5/6) through an open and constructive dialogue with the Government of the Sudan, taking into account the final report of the Group of Experts (A/HRC/6/19) and the replies of the Government thereon, and to include information in this regard in her report to the Council at its ninth session. 4. (...) (a) To cooperate and work in a transparent manner with the Government of the Sudan and other relevant partners of the international community; (b) To identify obstacles to the implementation of previous recommendations; (c) To differentiate short-term from medium-term recommendations with a view to assisting the Government of the Sudan to implement fully the recommendations identified and to keep the victims of past and ongoing human rights violations of human rights and humanitarian law in central focus, with the aim of reducing such violations in the future. 8. (...) However several recommendations which were prioritized as short-term and could have been implemented within a short term time frame, as they did not require lengthy administrative processes or additional resources, have not yet been implemented.