On March 25, 2024, the UN Human Rights Council concluded its review of the human rights situation in Germany. As part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the states made recommendations to Germany last November ( UN Webcast Archive, November 9). In the run-up to the November session, the Human Rights Forum and individual civil society organizations, the Institute and the German government had submitted reports (English versions here and here, available German versions here). Of the 346 recommendations, Germany accepts 282; it only takes note of the remaining recommendations. This means that the government does not want to implement these recommendations, either because it only shares the goal but not the recommended measures, because it does not plan any further measures or because it considers the underlying assumptions to be incorrect.
At the final meeting on 25 March 2024, the German Institute for Human Rights welcomed the adoption of a large number of recommendations and called on the German government to now specify how it intends to implement these voluntary commitments.
The Institute highlighted five areas in which it sees an urgent need for action and called on the German government to swiftly present an implementation plan with concrete measures based on the recommendations of the UN treaty committees. As in the previous procedure
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