{"id":962136,"date":"2023-01-19T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jan\/19\/australia-risks-un-human-rights-blacklisting-as-states-fail-to-meet-prison-obligations"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:00:12","slug":"australia-risks-un-human-rights-blacklisting-as-states-fail-to-meet-prison-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/19\/australia-risks-un-human-rights-blacklisting-as-states-fail-to-meet-prison-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia risks UN human rights blacklisting as states fail to meet prison obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline to meet anti-torture treaty obligations is Friday, but governments have yet to install watchdogs<\/p><ul><li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Australia risks being placed on a human rights blacklist alongside such countries as South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo by failing to meet its obligations in prison oversight under a UN anti-torture treaty.<\/p><p>The UN\u2019s Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (Opcat) was ratified under the Turnbull government in December 2017, but Australia has since requested two deadline extensions to meet its obligations.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jan\/19\/australia-risks-un-human-rights-blacklisting-as-states-fail-to-meet-prison-obligations\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jan\/19\/australia-risks-un-human-rights-blacklisting-as-states-fail-to-meet-prison-obligations\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline to meet anti-torture treaty obligations is Friday, but governments have yet to install watchdogsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia risks being placed on a human rights blacklist alongside such co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,6,13079,1206,11436,111,2841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962137,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962136\/revisions\/962137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}