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acknowledged the right of international organizations such as the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to provide refugees with identity
documents. Andorra was also a party to the European Convention on Extr adition.
Moreover, article 14 of the Extradition Act of 28 November 1996 was very clear on
the matter.
28. Mexico had submitted a question on the right of seasonal workers to family
reunification. The delegation replied that Act No. 9/2012 of 31 May 2012 allowed
seasonal workers to live and work in the country for a continuous period of 12 months
at most and did not provide for the right to family reunification. However, the Minister
added that, regardless of their parents’ immigration status, the children of seasonal
workers were covered by the Andorran education and health-care systems.
29. In response to recommendations to prohibit corporal punishment, the most recent
reform of the Criminal Code had in December 2014 established that such offences
constituted a criminal act. Corporal punishment was thus now prohibited in all places
and in all circumstances.
30. Regarding the promotion of gender parity, all parliamentary groups had endorsed
the drafting of a white paper on equality as a means of compiling i nformation on the
actual situation of women in government and establishing a common strategy.
31. On 15 January 2015, the parliament had also adopted Act No. 1/2015 on the
eradication of domestic violence and the establishment of a national commission for
the prevention of domestic and gender-based violence.
32. In response to written questions from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland on gender-based discrimination, the delegation of Andorra indicated
that the Constitution and other legal texts such as the Labour Code strictly prohibited
all forms of discrimination, inter alia on account of gender. In order to improve the
observance of women’s rights, the Government intended to submit a comprehensive
gender equality bill to the parliament so as to equip the country and its institutions
with the mechanisms needed to promote and protect women’s rights.
33. With regard to the marriageable age and the recommendations to alter the
minimum age, the Government had noted that, over the last four years, there had been
no marriages involving minors between the ages of 16 and 18, nor of minors between
the ages of 14 and 16 with judicial consent, and that, as there were no cases indicating
a problem, amending the law was not a priority for the Govern ment at the present
time.
B.
Interactive dialogue and responses by the State under review
34. During the interactive dialogue, 39 delegations made statements.
Recommendations made during the dialogue are to be found in section II of the
present report. All written statements by the delegations, which may be checked in the
United Nations Webcast archives, 1 are posted on the extranet of the Human Rights
Council, when available. 2
35. Thailand commended Andorra for taking steps to address the problem s relating
to domestic violence, discrimination against persons with disabilities and human
trafficking. It welcomed the amendment to the Criminal Code in 2014 which created
new offences within the crime of trafficking in persons for purposes such as slave ry
and sexual exploitation. Thailand also welcomed the adoption of the Act on the
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http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rights-council/universal-periodic-review/watch/Andorrareview-22nd-session-of-universal-periodic-review/4221938470001.
https://extranet.ohchr.org/sites/upr/Sessions/22session/Andorra/Pages/default. aspx.
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