{"id":30829,"date":"2023-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/central-african-republic-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-6109\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:39:58","slug":"central-african-republic-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-6109","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/central-african-republic-submission-to-the-45th-session-of-the-universal-6109\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic: submission to the 45th session of the Universal Periodic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/db16fc853a7a86260a311a85574cffb4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Introduction<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) is a human rights organisation specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all through research and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. This submission seeks to draw attention to concerns regarding the right to FoRB in the Central African Republic (CAR) ahead of the state\u2019s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>UPR commitments to freedom of religion or belief.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. During the third UPR cycle in 2018, CAR received two recommendations relating to the right to FoRB. Both were accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. The accepted recommendations were to \u2018continue with determined efforts in promoting reconciliation and peaceful coexistence among the people irrespective of religious or any other differences\u2019 (recommendation 121.102, Nigeria); and to \u2018develop public policies and awareness-raising campaigns to prevent incitement to violence, among other causes for ethnic or religious reasons, and to investigate and sanction persons or entities that incite violence\u2019 (Argentina, 121.59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. CAR also supported 10 recommendations relating to increasing public security in the country, including a call from Sierra Leone (121.54) to \u2018put an immediate end to the current sectarian violence in the country\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Continued activity of armed groups<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Despite accepting these recommendations, progress towards security, peaceful co-existence and reconciliation in CAR has been slow during the reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. In February 2019, the government negotiated a peace agreement with 14 armed groups operational in the country &#8211; the 23rd of its kind signed within a 13-year period. It called for the immediate surrendering of arms by the armed groups and a cessation of hostilities. However, these groups continued to resort to force to demonstrate their displeasure at the power sharing arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/upr45---central-african-republic---final..pdf\">To view the submission in full, you can download the pdf here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) is a human rights organisation specialising in the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all through research and advocacy.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44824,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[153,152],"class_list":["post-30829","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-central-african-republic","regions-sub-saharan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36801,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30829\/revisions\/36801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30829"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}