Appendix 1: Calendar of upcoming key UN treaty dates

Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)

Australia appeared before the committee in November 2014

Next report due November 2018

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Next report due August 2018

Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

The report was due October 2012. A combined 18–20th periodic report will be transmitted in 2015

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Next report was due December 2013

International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

Next report was due June 2014

Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Next report was due July 2014

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Next report due January 2018