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.
The recommendations can be filtered in the menu below by human rights topics, SDGs, proponent states etc. also a search function is available.
We welcome your comments and suggestions at upr@liga.or.at.
Progress: Success
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Proponent:
French Republic
Remarks to progress by Liga (last modified Dec 31, 2024):
Austria ratified the relevant protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2002:
BGBl III Nr 92/2002 or Ratification list of the UN.
Progress: No progress
Accede to the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
Proponent:
Republic of Armenia
Remarks to progress by Liga (last modified Dec 31, 2024):
The International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries is an international agreement that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 4 December 1989. It entered into force on 20 October 2001. Austria has not ratified the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries (UN Mercenaries Convention). To date, 37 states have ratified the Convention, but Austria is not among the countries that have ratified or signed it.
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Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte, upr@liga.or.at
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