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	OHCHR Report 2016
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Australia

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
(Not member of the Human Rights Council)

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Australia and UN Charter-based Bodies

Australia and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - Mission to Australia (A/HRC/35/41/Add.2) Advance Edited Version

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants - Mission to Australia (A/HRC/35/25/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo - Addendum - Mission to Australia (A/HRC/20/18/Add.1)

Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights - Mission to Australia and to Solomon Islands (A/HRC/17/37/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people - Mission to Australia (A/HRC/15/37/Add.4)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2017) E/C.12/AUS/CO/5

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2014) CAT/C/AUS/CO/4-5

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2013) CRPD/C/AUS/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2012) CRC/C/OPSC/AUS/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2012) CRC/C/AUS/CO/4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2012) CRC/C/OPAC/AUS/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2010) CERD/C/AUS/CO/15-17

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2010) CEDAW/C/AUL/CO/7

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2009) CCPR/C/AUS/CO/5

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Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
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