Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply IRL 1/2015 17/04/2015 Ireland JAL 30/09/2015 Discrimination Allegations regarding the discriminatory effects of certain provisions contained in the against women; Gender Recognition Bill (Number 116 of 2014). According to the information received, Health; after being announced by the Government in September 2014, the Gender Recognition Bill (the Bill) was presented to the upper house of the Oireachtas – the Irish legislature on 17 December 2014 and on 21 January 2015, and then examined on 5 March 2015 by the lower house. While acknowledging that the Bill is a positive attempt to provide access to legal recognition of gender identity for transgender people, concern is raised at provisions about mandatory medical certification, and disproportionate safeguards applied to children, which discriminate against transgender people and restrict their right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health, as well as their rights to privacy, equality before the law, and education. KWT 2/2015 17/04/2015 Kuwait JAL Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Alleged arbitrary arrest, temporary detention and charges brought against a human rights defender in an alleged act of reprisal for his cooperation with the United Nations in the field of human rights. According to the information received, on 20 March 2015, Mr. Nawaf al-Hendal, the Director of Kuwait Watch Organisation for Human Rights, delivered an oral statement to the 28th Human Rights Council in Geneva regarding the human rights situation in Kuwait. After his return to Kuwait, on 23 March 2015, Mr. AlHendal organized an observer team to monitor a protest outside the National Assembly in Al-Erada square in Kuwait City, which called for reform of the judiciary and the release of detained activists. At approximately 8.45 p.m., the Kuwaiti Special Police Force blocked the road towards the National Assembly and physically dispersed and beat the protestors. Mr. Al-Hendal was beaten and subsequently arrested and detained. On 25 March 2015, Mr. Al-Hendal was released from detention. He is currently awaiting trial on charges of “participating in an illegal demonstration”. A travel ban has been imposed on him. 28/04/2015 18/05/2015 05/06/2015 28/09/2015 A/HRC/31/79 181