Australia grilled on human rights by UN

London: Former prime minister Tony Abbott's attack on a 2015 report into children in immigration detention has been raised during a United Nations examination of Australia's human rights record.

Australia is being grilled by the Human Rights Committee in Geneva early on Thursday (AEDT) following its election to the UN's Human Rights Council.

Vice chair of the Committee Yuval Shany noted Australia's "generally strong record" on human rights, however he questioned Mr Abbott's 2015 comments on the Australian Human Rights Commission's The Forgotten Children report.

The report found detention centres were a "dangerous place for children" and called for a royal commission into the practice of putting asylum seeker children into mandatory detention.

The then prime minister labelled the report "a blatantly partisan politicised exercise", something Mr Shany labelled an "odd statement".

Mr Shany also remarked he was "perplexed" that Attorney-General George Brandis asked Commissioner Gillian Triggs to resign before the critical report was published.

The Australian delegation responded that the relationship between the government and the commission was "in a very good place at the moment".

Australia's implementation of the human rights committee's decisions was also criticised.

Mr Shany said it's "unacceptable" for Australia to "routinely reject" the committee's views, or "self-judge" UN human rights treaties compliance, saying the country can't "pick and choose" its compliance with human rights law.

The lack of implementation was "completely off the charts for the committee", Mr Shany said. "It's incredible for a country that claims to have a leading role in global human rights."

The Australian delegation responded that the implementation of views would have to be an area where the committee and government "respectfully disagree" as Australia does not see the views of the committee and other treaty bodies as legally binding.

The same-sex marriage plebiscite was also criticised by the committee, with member Sarah Cleveland remarking: "Human rights are not to be determined by opinion poll or a popular vote".

Other issues raised by the committee included, transgender and intersex rights, domestic violence, the sterilisation of intellectually disabled women and girls, and the balance between anti-terrorism laws and personal liberty.

Australia was elected unopposed to the council, for the first time on Tuesday, as a Western European and other States representative for a three-year term.

John Quinn, Australian Ambassador and permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, said Australia "was not complacent" and acknowledged there were things the country "could do better".

He said violence against women and improving the lives of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders as well as constitutional recognition were particular issues for Australia.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop nominated the empowerment of women globally, indigenous rights, abolition of the death penalty and crises in North Korea and Syria as the issues Australia would pursue during its tenure.

It will also push for reforms to the council.


http://www.smh.com.au/world/australia-grilled-on-human-rights-by-un-20171018-gz3q...

bugger the UN.

issuevoter wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 12:54pm:


So, it's the messenger you have an issue with, not the message?

greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 2:19pm:


To be expected on here.

I was personally embarrassed, but that's just me.

greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 3:15pm:



greggery,

Does open evidences, of the truth, open evidences of what is the truth is,
offend you ?



greggery,

'Aussie' moslems did these things, said these things.

NOT ME.

Quote:
- 'Aussie' moslem child, being taught 'how to practice ISLAM', in Australia.


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  -------- >   goto 43 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krk5piUzp1E

Yadda wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 3:48pm:


Nah.

The muzzo CULT has no place in civilized society

The muzzo CULT has no place in a free and honest society

The muzzo CULT is of no good to ANY country

The muzzo CULT is populated with retarded, backward, primitive, pedophiles, murderers and COWARDS.

DENY ANY MUZZOS ENTRY INTO AUSTRALIA

EXILE ANY MUZZOS FROM AUSTRALIA

EXILE ANY AND ALL SYCHOPHANT, SYMPATHISER,  APOLOGISTS.

So we are getting the same treatment as Israel ey?

from the usual suspects.

Yeah - the way they've been treating men for nearly forty falcon years is enough to create an urgent inquiry over human rights....

The United Nations can resolve our humanitarian crisis by redeploying those poor, oppressed refugees to another nation. Perhaps Indonesia. Then they can go about bitching and moaning about how great it is to be living in a Muslim dominated country, where they can starve, and treat each other with contempt, and console themselves about being oppressed because everything useful falls out of the sky into ungrateful white people's hands because Muslims are treated as slaves, etc.

The real reason the UN wants Australians to feel emotionally bullied is to blackmail us into opening the borders to one and all. **** the United Nations.

we need to pull out of the UN and stop wasting Australia's money

The UN is a collection of parasites and has beens.

They serve ZERO on the useful scale

But while they demand that countries fork out billions
Make their people suffer to house and feed other parasites

All of the UN members are well off and never contribute anything but words

Put them down, like all parasites

mothra wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 3:15pm:


You're 'personally embarrassing'.....yes thats just you, but you always knew that ..Yes?

Bloodhound wrote on Oct 21^st, 2017 at 12:16pm:


If we want to continue breaching human rights we need to. Though I would prefer for us to stop breaching human rights as a solution.

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 8:19am:



It is.  And in today's news Robert Mugabe appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organization.

The UN does some good stuff in the field of vaccination programs and providing food for famines but beyond that is mostly a joke and a wind farm.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 9:10am:



I think we'll get over it.


Being accused of human right abuses by the UN council for human rights is like being accused of being a little aggressive by martin bryant.


Fkk the UN, pack of useless bottom feeders who are all talk and no action, so it the eyes of the socialists a wonderful organisation.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 9:10am:




seriously... 

A.B. Original - January 26 (Official Video)

However, I do agree that the Australian government has abused the Human Right of aborigines to be treated in exactly the same way as the average working person in this country.

Years of Cargo Cult gifting to the aborigines has bred in them the idea that they are entitled to a free lunch and welfare support from cradle to grave.

it_is_the_light wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 11:10am:


That bling was paid for by the government. Yet another freebie.

BigOl64 wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 9:15am:


Yes the UN is far from perfect but it isn't about them. It is about us living in a country that is honest has integrity and does not abuse human rights, a country that we should be proud of instead of ashamed.

How about our Human Right to die humanely under the care of euthanasia?

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 4:07pm:



So, not an Australian statute, not our problem, we are a sovereign nation with our own laws or not as the case may be.


The UN and their bullsh1t 'laws' are not worth a snatch full of cold water when push comes to shove.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 4:30pm:



No we don't, that's why it is bullsh1t and not worth a snatch full of cold water.

We could sign every single document those cretins in the UN have ever written and it would not make a rat''s arse piece of difference for any of us.



So move alone nothing to see here. 

What would the United Nations know about Human Rights?..Well actually they know a damned lot!

Because this is the U.N. that stood guard over atrocities in Rwanda,, Sarajavo, Bosnia, the list goes on and on cataloguing how the eunuch like blue berets stood by picking their noses whilst millions of people were slaughtered and they didn't lift a finger to save them

So U.N. get the f... out of our business and stick to being totally useless, like you have been through the years.......

thecuriousmail wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 5:00pm:


'Eric the Red' ... says it all. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 4:30pm:



you speak for yourself  dna.. not me.. I do everything I can  to help anyone  same with my family   they dont give a toss what color or religion you are......you need help or a shoulder  we have it...

what I dont like is people smugglers deciding who comes to this country.... and its only those who can afford to pay them ..

thats what I dont like...no one has stopped any refugee coming in through the correct channels....

and if the UN cant fix the problems in their country of origin so they can move back and rebuild their own country....then shame on the UN  and human rights...who spend far too much money on first class fares all around the world.. and achieve nothing..

if you think thats worth supporting good luck to you  but dont you dare claim I and most other decent aussies do not abide by a human rights charter...

we have a right to say enough is enough...

it_is_the_light wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2017 at 11:13am:


Continue to use a meme with David Gulpilil as an example ey?

Wanna ask him about his wives human rights not to be bashed because of his alcohol abuse?

I suppose you blame that on whitey too for supplying the grog?