Urgent and impactful climate and environmental action is a top priority for Australia, thus bidding to co-host COP31 in 2026 in partnership with the Pacific.

Australia welcomes efforts to identify good practices in providing reparations for child victims and survivors and look forward to sharing Australia’s experience during the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming visit to Australia.

Australia reiterates our strong condemnation of the Taliban’s systematic dismantling of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.

Australia calls on South Sudanese authorities to do everything in their power to ensure civilians and humanitarian workers are protected.

Australia is deeply concerned by the deterioration of human rights in Nicaragua and the continued dismantling of democratic institutions.

Since the coup d’état two years ago, Australia has repeatedly called on Myanmar to engage in constructive dialogue and find a peaceful and durable resolution to the ongoing crisis.

Australia is deeply concerned by the number of repressive edicts issued by the Taliban against women and girls eradicating them from public life.

Australia remains deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, human rights violations and abuses, the escalating violence and the lack of progress towards a just and enduring two-state solution.

Australia strongly urges Eritrea to grant the Special Rapporteur full and unhindered access across the country.

Australia played an important role in the creation of the multilateral human rights system, and we will continue to work to advance and defend it.

The death penalty is a brutal and degrading punishment. It is irrevocable, and disproportionately affects people living in poverty, people with intellectual disabilities, people living with drug or mental health problems, Indigenous Peoples, minorities and people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.

We urge Lebanon to abide by its international human rights obligations to take all necessary measures to safeguard, in law and in practice, the full independence and impartiality of the Lebanese judiciary.