On 2 April 2009, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted Concluding Observations in respect of Australia’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

On 6 July 2010, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre made a Follow-Up Submission on Implementation of the Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations on Australia.  The submission updates the Committee as to:

• the four Concluding Observations about which the Committee requested relevant information on implementation from Australia within one year (namely, counter-terrorism law and policy, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, violence against women and mandatory immigration detention); and
• the outcomes of the National Human Rights Consultation.

Further background information on each of these issues is contained in the comprehensive NGO Report, Addendum and fact sheets provided to the Committee in 2009, available at http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/topics/civil-and-political-rights/un-human-rights-committee-review-of-australia-march-2009/.

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