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On the ground at Australia’s Universal Periodic Review

While Australia accepted the vast majority of the recommendations from the 2011 UPR…only 10% have been fully implemented.
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Australia gets a rigorous human rights review in Geneva

By Marius Smith and Sarah Joseph We were lucky enough to be on hand in Geneva overnight to witness Australia’s appearance at the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review. More than 100 nations reviewed Australia’s human rights record and made approximately 300 recommendations on how Australia can strengthen human rights protection.…
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Questions submitted in advance of Australia’s Universal Periodic Review
By Marius Smith As Australia prepares to submit itself to the Universal Periodic Review over the next few hours, you can get an idea of what topics might come up by looking at the countries that have submitted questions to Australia in advance. More than a dozen countries have done so, and we have broken them…
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The World Reviews Australia’s Human Rights Record
110 states have signed up to speak at Australia’s review, which is the fifth greatest number of states for this entire cycle.

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