Kazakhstan participated in the meetings of the 38th session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group of the HRC

3-14 May, the 38th session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group was held in Geneva, during which 14 UN member States submitted their national reports on the implementation of international human rights obligations.

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva Zh.Aitzhanova presented Kazakhstan's recommendations to the delegations of Estonia, Belgium, Denmark, Latvia, and Singapore during the defense of their national reports.

Kazakhstan notes the policy pursued by these countries to improve the mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights, the implementation of international obligations. In particular, Kazakhstan highly appreciates the measures taken by Estonia to strengthen the capacity to integrate refugees, the policy pursued by Denmark to ensure the principle of gender equality, the reforms adopted by Latvia to implement the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review, and the ratification by Singapore of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Following the review of the national reports of the above-mentioned countries, Kazakhstan made recommendations on the ratification of the relevant international treaties on the elimination of discrimination and the prohibition of torture, the establishment of an institute for the protection and promotion of human rights in accordance with the Paris Principles, and to continue close cooperation with OHCHR and other UN bodies in order to further strengthen and protect human rights.