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Senegal

Regional group:

African Group (AG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Council Bureau membership:	President (2019)
Coordinator of regional group:	–
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	Regional Group Coordinator (2011-2012) Member of Consultative Group (2008-2009)
OHCHR presence:	Regional Office
NHRI accreditation status:	B

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Standing - Inter-Ministerial

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Extreme poverty and human rights; Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights; Promoting the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the work of the Human Rights Council; Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; Human rights education and training. World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan of action for the fourth phase; Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights; Strengthening documentation within the Human Rights Council; High-level panel discussion on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the Work of the Human Rights Council; Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2006, Senegal has (in the absence of consensus) tended to abstain during the voting on, or vote against, most item 4 (situations that require the Council’s attention) and country-specific item 2 (annual report of the High Commissioner) resolutions; however, it voted in favour of two item 2 resolutions on Myanmar (2018 and 2019), two texts on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2019 and 2020), and some item 4 texts on the human rights situation in Syria and Iran. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Senegal has always voted in favour. On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Senegal has joined consensus on all resolutions except for four that were voted on during the period of its membership: on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2009, Senegal voted in favour) and the texts on cooperation with Georgia and Ukraine (2018, 2019 and 2020 – it abstained). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Senegal has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has nearly always voted in favour. Notwithstanding, Senegal abstained during voting on religious intolerance (2007), religious discrimination (2009), torture (2009), integrity of the judicial system (2018), death penalty (2019), and the world drug problem (2018). For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Senegal has either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, all adopted texts.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

262

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 78

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 50

118

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

115

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 96

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on sale of children, 2015

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

CPED
6 Months

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Received Sub-Committee visit

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2009, 2013, 2018)

Mid-term report

Level of delegation

Minister

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 16 / 192

2^nd cycle: 111 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2023)?

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 10

Senegal’s pledges and commitments in support for its candidacy for membership for the period 2018-2020 are not available.

Senegal

African Group (AG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 16 / 192

2nd cycle: 111 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 10

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 16 / 192

2^nd cycle: 111 / 192