ADVANCE QUESTIONS TO MALAWI – ADD.1
KENYA
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What is the current status of plans to remove all remaining discrimination from
nationality provisions in the law, in line with the Gender Equality Act’s prohibition on
sex discrimination?
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Are there presently major obstacles to ensuring equal citizenship rights for women
and, if so, how does the government plan to address these obstacles?
LIECHTENSTEIN
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Liechtenstein recognizes Malawi’s commitment to international criminal justice, as
evidenced by its ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
and its accession to the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Court (APIC).
What steps has Malawi taken to ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute?
MEXICO
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What are the causes behind the delay of the operationalization of the Independent
Complaints Commission for which the Police Act provides? Could a timetable for full
operationalization please be provided?
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Could you please provide details regarding the process of consideration to which the
recommendation (which Mexico formulated during the last cycle of the UPR) relative
to the importance of raising the age of criminal responsibility from its current age of
10 years was subjected? Could you please provide the rationale behind its rejection?
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What measures have been taken in order to foster elementary school attendance?
Have such efforts yielded results so far?