Australian Human Rights Commission an Embarrassment.

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Australia embarrassed on world stage over downgrade threat.

A major Australian national institution could have its global status downgraded over questions around hand-picked appointments.  The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been warned it could be downgraded from an A accreditation to a B if it doesn’t make changes to ensure the independence of its leadership.

If downgraded, Australia would be relegated to an observer at the UN Human Rights Council.

Following a five-yearly assessment by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), the AHRC was not reaccredited as an A-status National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).

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The AHRC said it would work with government and others to attempt to secure re-accreditation as an A-status NHRI in 2023.

“For 30 years the Australian Government has played a key role in promoting the establishment of national human rights institutions across the globe,” the AHRC said in a statement

Face it...along with the Scandanavian countries, Australia and New Zealand have the best reputation for human rights. Every so often we get a conservative government (like the current one) who stalls on issues relating to refugees, indigenous rights and climate action. This is somethings afflicting every western country. Nothing to see here folks.

Even though the story was posted in an Australian news source?

Last edited by Fnord on 07 Apr 2022, 4:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well of course, it's still "newsworthy" but we don't have mass shootings every other week so our major story is either our prime minister visits a pub in a rural town for a drink or a cat got stuck in a drain pipe involving an epic rescue

I'm not comfortable with "internationals" commenting about affairs in Australia. <satire>