Human Rights Naming and Shaming - Australia

Last week I posted a link to an article recounting how the Human Rights Committee had found Australia responsible for violations of the ICCPR rights of detained refugee claimants in Papua New Guinea. Today's New York Times has a prominent piece on the issues. This helps to illustrate how the mechanisms of the monitoring and observations system puts pressure on countries. Australia will most certainly feel the pressure of this kind of criticism in The New York Times, which was in turn a direct result of the Human Rights Committee's observations.