This UPR tool reflects the global recommendations made to Austria by all countries world-wide during the Universial Priodic Review process (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council and their current status of implementation. The League coordinates a significant part of Austrian civil society in the UPR process. See this LINK for an overview about this process.
The recommendations can be filtered in the menu below by human rights topics, SDGs, proponent states etc. And also a search function is available.
We welcome your comments and suggestions at upr@liga.or.at.
Progress: No progress
Increase funding for shelters and support services and improve access to sexual and reproductive health services in rural areas to reduce gender-based violence
Proponent:
Australia
Progress: No progress
Adopt a uniform legal definition of domestic violence in line with the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
Proponent:
Kingdom of Belgium
Progress: No progress
Improve data collection on gender-based violence and femicide
Proponent:
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Progress: No progress
Ensure full implementation of the National Action Plan 2025–2029 to combat violence against women and girls and adopt additional measures to improve gender equality in employment
Proponent:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Progress: No progress
Continue efforts to implement policies and measures to prevent and combat violence against women, including through the effective implementation of relevant national strategies
Proponent:
Lebanese Republic
Progress: No progress
Strengthen the protection of children and young people from violence through evidence-based prevention policies, increased awareness-raising, enhanced prosecution, and improved legal frameworks, social services, and health services
Proponent:
Sultanate of Oman
Progress: No progress
Continue to promote actions to protect children and young people from violence, including through the adoption of measures in educational institutions
Proponent:
Republic of El Salvador
Progress: No progress
Adopt further measures to prevent violence against children and youth, including by strengthening the legal framework, implementing nationwide awareness-raising campaigns, and providing psychological care and support to those affected
Proponent:
State of Qatar
Progress: No progress
Ensuring the rights of the children to enjoy his or her own culture and preserve his or her own identity, including to live with their biological families and in an appropriate socio-cultural milieu in order to ensure all round development of the child
Proponent:
Republic of India
Progress: No progress
Strengthen legal and procedural safeguards to protect the rights of children, in line with the best interests of the child
Proponent:
Republic of Kazakhstan
Progress: No progress
Consider adopting legislation that guarantees a legal guardianship system for unaccompanied minors immediately upon arrival in the country, in order to ensure their protection, well-being, and the exercise of their human rights, in accordance with the rights of the child and the best interests of the child
Proponent:
Republic of Eastern Uruguay
Progress: No progress
Grant access to nationality to all children born in the country, regardless of their parents‘ status
Proponent:
Republic of Eastern Uruguay
Progress: No progress
Continue applying concrete measures in safeguarding the rights of older persons
Proponent:
Republic of Cyprus
Progress: No progress
Maintain its efforts to promote the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities, including through the implementation of the National Action Plan on Disabilit
Proponent:
Georgia
Progress: No progress
Continue efforts to implement the 2022–2030 National Action Plan on Disability
Proponent:
Lebanese Republic
Progress: No progress
Take concrete steps to advance equal rights for people with disabilities, by moving towards an inclusive education, discontinuing the use of seclusion and restrictions
Proponent:
Kingdom of Lesotho
Progress: No progress
Advance inclusive access for persons with disabilities through strengthened independent living and accessibility policies
Proponent:
Malaysia
Progress: No progress
Ensure that persons with disabilities can promptly access the social services they need without undue bureaucratic hindrances
Proponent:
Republic of Malta
Progress: No progress
Take measures to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, including establishing a comprehensive deinstitutionalization strategy
Proponent:
Japan
Progress: No progress
Bolster efforts in protecting persons with disabilities, by ensuring equal access to inclusive education, employment, healthcare, public services and intensify measures towards deinstitutionalization
Proponent:
Romania
Progress: No progress
Continue efforts to ensure the transition to inclusive education for children with disabilities
Proponent:
Republic of Bulgaria
Progress: No progress
Ensure inclusive and nondiscriminatory access to education, health care and social protection for vulnerable groups including children with disabilities
Proponent:
Republic of Serbia
Progress: No progress
Step up its efforts to implement inclusive policies for persons with disabilities and combat stigmatization and stereotyping
Proponent:
Hellenic Republic
Progress: No progress
Advance the design of the deinstitutionalization process for persons with disabilities, and the promotion and coordination of its implementation strategy at the national level
Proponent:
Republic of Colombia
Progress: No progress
Continue policies, plans, and measures aimed at protecting persons with disabilities and integrating them into social and professional life, and support civil society organizations working in this field
Proponent:
Republic of Sudan
Progress: No progress
Strengthen protection and inclusion of persons with disabilities by improving accessibility, community-based services and safeguards against abuse, in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Proponent:
Republic of The Gambia
Progress: No progress
Guarantee the effective participation of people with disabilities and their representative organizations in decision-making processes that affect them
Proponent:
Kingdom of Spain
Progress: No progress
Promote employment and equal pay for equal work for people with disabilities
Proponent:
People's Republic of China
Progress: No progress
Intensify efforts to promote the employment of persons with disabilities, including by simplifying subsidy application procedures and introducing financial and non-financial incentives
Proponent:
Kingdom of Thailand
Progress: No progress
Further strengthen measures to address disparities in the level of employment and wages for persons with disabilities
Proponent:
Republic Trinidad and Tobago
Progress: No progress
Take all necessary measures to guarantee the rights of persons with disabilities with regard to pay, particularly for those employed through supported employment programmes
Proponent:
French Republic
Progress: No progress
Confirm the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, particularly children, by removing legal, administrative, and bureaucratic barriers to access social assistance benefits, school system and labour market, and by addressing stigma and discriminatory practices
Proponent:
Italian Republic
Progress: No progress
Implement a ban on the use of contraceptive measures on persons with disabilities without their informed consent
Proponent:
Republic of Iceland
Progress: No progress
Prevent and investigate cases of forced sterilization of women and girls with disabilities, ensuring effective protection of their rights
Proponent:
Republic of Chile
Progress: No progress
Consider, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee against Torture, reviewing any legislation that allows for the deprivation of a person’s liberty on the grounds of incapacity and the forcible subjection to medical interventions of persons with disabilities, in particular persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities
Proponent:
Swiss Confederation
Progress: No progress
Take further steps to strengthen the implementation of the “Roma Empowerment for the Labour Market 2022–2030” directive, with the objective of reducing unemployment and improving living conditions among the Roma community
Proponent:
Republic of North Macedonia –
Progress: No progress
Take concrete steps to prevent racial profiling and discrimination against People of African Descent by strengthening policy measures and enforcement of legal protections, collecting relevant disaggregated data and ensuring their equal access to housing, employment and education
Proponent:
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Progress: No progress
Take further steps to create a unified structured policy within the entire Austrian territory for protecting and promoting all indigenous minority languages, including support for bilingual education through stable state funding for bilingual schools
Proponent:
Czech Republic
Progress: No progress
Take additional measures to eradicate racist and xenophobic speech targeting migrants, Muslims, people of African descent, and members of other national and religious groups
Proponent:
Republic of Belarus
Progress: No progress
Prosecute all forms of discrimination and violence on the basis of race and religion and provide effective remedies to the victims
Proponent:
Republic of Indonesia
Progress: No progress
Enhance efforts towards a comprehensive reform of the Austrian Minority Act of 1976
Proponent:
Republic of Slovenia
Progress: No progress
Redouble efforts to strengthen and promote the cultural identity and diversity of national minorities
Proponent:
Tunisian Republic
Progress: No progress
Ensure financial and other resources for bilingual education of national minorities, in the capital and in the relevant regions
Proponent:
Republic of Croatia
Progress: No progress
Continue to take measures to improve the situation of national minorities, including their access to education
Proponent:
Republic of Cuba
Progress: No progress
Swift conclusion of bilingual judiciary reform in Carinthia, thus expanding access to justice in minority language for the Slovenian national minority in Carinthia
Proponent:
Republic of Slovenia
Progress: No progress
Adopt overdue measures in the field of bilingual education in Carinthia, including integrating pre-school education into the bilingual education system
Proponent:
Republic of Slovenia
Progress: No progress
Extend the scope of anti-discrimination legislation to ensure protection for persons of diverse SOGIESC
Proponent:
Republic of Iceland
Progress: No progress
Adopt legal provisions that explicitly prohibit non-urgent and non-essential medical or surgical treatment on intersex children before they are of sufficient age or maturity to make their own decisions
Proponent:
Republic of Malta
Progress: No progress
Respect intersex children’s right to self-determination and ban medically unnecessary surgeries
Proponent:
Republic of Iceland
Progress: No progress
Ensure that Protection against discrimination in healthcare based on gender expression or sex characteristics is implemented consistently at the Federal, Länder and local levels
Proponent:
Republic of Malta
Progress: No progress
Adopt legislation banning the practice of “conversion therapy” related to sexual orientation and gender identity
Proponent:
Kingdom of Norway
Progress: No progress
Further advance inclusive education, without discrimination, for women and girls with migration backgrounds, at all levels of education
Proponent:
Romania
Progress: No progress
Enhance legislative protections for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers by ensuring equitable asylum processes, preventing refoulement, improving reception standards, and expeditiously appointing guardians for unaccompanied minors
Proponent:
Kingdom of Lesotho
Progress: No progress
Further promote anti-discrimination measures and the inclusion of migrants, including by reducing administrative barriers to equal economic participation and expanding the integration service for skilled migrant workers including in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and healthcare
Proponent:
Kingdom of Thailand
Progress: No progress
End discriminatory migration and policing practices, and prohibit ethnic profiling
Proponent:
Islamic Republic of Iran
Progress: No progress
Strengthen the protection of unaccompanied foreign migrant minors, expand family reunification mechanisms, and ensure full respect for the principle of non-refoulement, especially in cases of extreme vulnerability
Proponent:
Kingdom of Spain
Progress: No progress
End mandatory immigration detention and apply strict time limits, safeguards, and independent oversight when detention is used
Proponent:
Republic of Colombia
Progress: No progress
Further strengthen the integration of migrants by expanding language and vocational training programmes, improving access to the labour market, and supporting initiatives that empower migrant women and girls
Proponent:
Eritrea
Progress: No progress
Offer migrant groups more institutional opportunities for political participation and ensure tolerance in education system, including the teaching of mother tongue for migrant communities
Proponent:
Republic of Turkey
Progress: No progress
Enhance policies for the social and economic integration of migrants and minorities, with a view to promoting social cohesion
Proponent:
Republic of Mozambique
Progress: No progress
Continue to promote the social and economic integration of migrants, in particular through inclusive policies facilitating access to essential basic services
Proponent:
Republic of Cameroon
Progress: No progress
Continue strengthening social protection systems to ensure that vulnerable populations, including migrants and other vulnerable communities, receive adequate support and are fully included in social and economic programmes
Proponent:
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Progress: No progress
Pay particular attention to its human rights obligations in the context of the significant influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa
Proponent:
Russian Federation
Progress: No progress
Take decisive measures to eliminate illiteracy among the children of refugees and migrants
Proponent:
Republic of Belarus
Progress: No progress
Continue to enhance measures and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers, asylum-seekers, and refugees, including by fully enforcing the Act Against Online Hate Speech and other relevant legislations in line with international obligations
Proponent:
Republic of the Philippines
Progress: No progress
Ensure that unaccompanied and accompanied refugee minors have equal access to services, including psychosocial care, on the same basis as Austrian and European youth
Proponent:
Republic of Niger
Progress: No progress
Continue enhancing protection for asylum seekers and refugees, including unaccompanied minors, by ensuring access to education, age-appropriate accommodations, legal assistance, and psychosocial support, in accordance with the best interests of the child
Proponent:
Eritrea
Progress: No progress
Strengthen efforts to ensure that all asylum-seekers and other persons in need of international protection have access to fair and effective refugee status determination procedures, and that the principle of non-refoulement is respected
Proponent:
Republic of Ecuador
Progress: No progress
Strengthen the protection of asylum seekers, particularly unaccompanied children, and expedite procedures without discrimination, taking into account reunification
Proponent:
Arab Republic of Egypt
Progress: No progress
Strengthen safeguards in the asylum system, including timely vulnerability assessments, adequate reception and, where applicable, detention conditions, and full compliance of external refugee arrangements with international human rights and refugee law
Proponent:
Federal Republic of Brazil
Progress: No progress
Strengthen the national refugee protection system, with special attention to legal guardianship for unaccompanied minors and to timely and non-discriminatory access to essential services
Proponent:
Republic of El Salvador
Progress: No progress
Strengthen the legislative framework for the protection of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and ensure refugees’ access to basic services and legal assistance
Proponent:
Republic of Kazakhstan
Progress: No progress
Further strengthen measures to protect and promote the human rights of migrants and refugees, including by facilitating family reunification
Proponent:
Republic of Korea
Progress: No progress
Continue efforts to ensure the right to inclusive education for refugees and persons with disabilities
Proponent:
Republic of Ghana
Progress: No progress
Ratification of the Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter on Collective Complaints of 9 November 1995 and Declaration on Article D of the European Social Charter (revised) of 3 May 1996
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Ratification of Articles 30 and 31 of the European Social Charter
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Ratification of the 12th Additional Protocol to the ECHR of 4 November 2000
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 10 December 2008
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Ratification of the III. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) of 17 June 2011
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Issuing a mandate to the European Commission to draw up a binding treaty under international law to bind transnational corporations and companies to human rights (Resolution A/HRC/RES/26/9)
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Constructive participation in the Open Ended Inter-Governmental Work Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Constructive participation in the relevant ad hoc committee for the drafting of an additional protocol to the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime to improve the consideration of human rights within the convention
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Constructive participation in the Open Ended Inter-Governmental Working Group for a CRC Optional Protocol on the rights to early childhood education, free pre-primary education and free secondary education
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Comprehensive catalogue of fundamental rights in the constitution
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Levelling up: Comprehensive protection against discrimination in all areas of life
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Creation of legal regulations that impose binding and enforceable due diligence obligations on all Austrian companies and corporate groups in Austria and abroad to respect human rights and the environment
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Elevation of all provisions of the CRC to constitutional status, such as social rights, the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to health care
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Effective consideration of human rights in from the start of each legislative project („human rights first“-approach)
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Creation of legal remedies before the Constitutional Court to assert unconstitutional inactivity in the preparation of legislative proposals
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Extending awareness-raising on the importance of human rights to all regional administrations
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Nationwide harmonised statutory quality standards in areas relevant to human rights, such as youth welfare
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Establishment of an independent body for Austria-wide monitoring of children’s rights
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Development and formulation of a comprehensive NAP Human Rights based on the OHCHR recommendations 2011 and 2015 with the participation of civil society organisations, containing strategic goals for the improvement of fundamental and human rights, as well as realistic and measurable indicators
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Development of a NAP on business and human rights
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Creation of an anti-discrimination NAP to combat all forms of racism (e.g. anti-Muslim racism, anti-Semitism, antiziganism, etc.) with realistic and measurable indicators
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Securing budgetary resources for the implementation of the NAP Human Rights and all topic-specific NAPs
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Creation of financial resources for civil society work based on international best practice models
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Strengthening the independence of the Ombud for Equal Treatment and adapting its resources to the increasing number of cases
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Legal protection of the Ombuds Offices for Children and Youths in the federal states by a standardised mandate
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
Progress: No progress
Introduction of standardised protection against discrimination throughout Austria by amending all equal treatment and anti-discrimination laws at federal and state level to ensure substantive and procedural protection against discrimination on all prohibited grounds and their intersectional overlaps
Proponent:
Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
Rahlgasse 1/26, A-1060 Wien
http://www.liga.or.at/projekte/universal-periodic-review-2020-upr/
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