#AusUPR20 Score Card: Australia has cut the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, diminishing Australia’s capacity to support human rights internationally. 1/7 #Auspol
Low investment has contributed to the failure of the aid program to meet the 80% target of projects effectively addressing gender equality. 2/7
Australia must increase its ODA budget to 0.7% of GNI to boost capacity to promote human rights. Australia must also invest in technical expertise and women’s rights organisations to meet the aid program’s gender target. 3/7
As Australia seeks to implement new aid modalities, including blended finance for infrastructure, vigorous safe guards will be needed to mitigate risks to human rights that have previously caused concerns for government-financed projects. 4/7
To meet treaty and SDG commitments Australia must put human rights, rather than national interest, at the centre of its ODA program. 5/7
Regulations introduced in 2018 require Australian charities with overseas activities to prevent harm, exploitation and abuse of vulnerable persons. These address high-risk activities including volunteering and residential care. 6/7
Australia must establish safeguards and monitoring mechanisms to uphold international human rights standards within ODA and blended-finance programs. 7/7
Source: Australia’s Human Rights Score Card from its 3rd United Nations Universal Periodic Review NGO Coalition Report.
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