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Togo

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:	Vice-president (2020)
Coordinator of regional group:	1 (2018)
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Working Group on Situations (2019)
OHCHR presence:	– No field presence
NHRI accreditation status:	A

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Contribution of respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms to achieving the purposes and upholding the principles of the Charter of the United Nations; 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.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2016, Togo has in the absence of consensus: voted in favour of a number of item 4 resolutions (situations that require the Council’s attention) on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic; and abstained during the vote on item 4 resolutions on the situations in Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Burundi, and the Syrian Arab Republic. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) Togo has either abstained during the vote on all texts (HRC31), or voted against all resolutions (HRC34). On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Togo always joined consensus or voted in favour (Cooperation with and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights, and cooperation with Georgia), with the exception of the resolution on cooperation with and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights (HRC35) on which Togo abstained. For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Togo has generally joint consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has nearly always voted in favour. Notwithstanding, Togo voted against resolutions on sexual orientation and gender identity (Argentina, Uruguay); and protection of human rights while countering terrorism (Mexico), and abstained during voting on peaceful protests (Switzerland). For thematic resolutions focusing on economic, social and cultural rights, Togo has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has nearly always voted in favour of such texts. The exception is Togo’s position on the Cuban resolution on a democratic and equitable international order. Togo abstained on this text.

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:

324

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 98

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 46

106

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 61

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 freedom of assembly, 2018

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

CEDAW
5.43 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Received Sub-Committee visit

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2011, 2016)

Mid-term report

1st and 2nd cycles

Level of delegation

Minister

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 0 / 192

2^nd cycle: 81 / 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: 0

Togo presented voluntary pledges and commitments in support of its candidacy for membership of the Council for the period 2019-2021 on 9 October 2018.

Togo pledged to: continue to ratify relevant instruments in the field of human rights and to implement international commitments, in accordance with the instruments to which it is a party; meet its reporting obligations under those instruments and cooperate with the treaty bodies, while continuing to involve civil society in the preparation of such reports; continue to contribute constructively to discussions in the Council for the improvement of human rights throughout the world by promoting technical assistance and capacity-building for States that request such cooperation; remain an active participant in the UPR and continuing to implement the recommendations that it definitively accepted in March 2017; becoming more involved in discussions focusing on the Council’s prevention efforts; give greater support in the Council to initiatives on economic and social issues, the most vulnerable populations, women and children and those in the most deprived areas; and continue to cooperate with organizations for the defence of human rights.

An analysis of Togo’s pledges shows that it has ratified all eight core conventions, but it is yet to accept the individual complaints procedures under the CED, CEDAW, ICESCR and CRC. Togo has four overdue periodic reports and, of those reports that it has submitted, Togo tends to report late.

Concerning the UPR, Togo presented its national reports in 2011 and 2016 and significantly increased its participation in other States’ reviews (from 0 in the first cycle to 81 in the second cycle).

Togo has either voted in favour or joined consensus on all resolutions regarding the Council’s prevention mandate, civil society space, technical assistance and capacity building (except a resolution on Ukraine – it abstained) and women’s rights.

Togo

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: 0 / 192

2nd cycle: 81 / 192

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

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 0

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 0 / 192

2^nd cycle: 81 / 192