Diwaka Prakash, Assistant Director, International Legal Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Diwaka.prakash@dfat.gov.au
Stephanie Ierino, Principal Legal Officer, Office of International Law, Attorney General’s Department, Stephanie.Ierino@ag.gov.au
Yes
In June 2013, Australia amended its International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1963. The amendments established a legislative basis for the enactment of Regulations conferring privileges and immunities on the ICRC to help the ICRC perform its work in Australia and the Pacific region. Australia is in the process of finalizing regulations that will detail the International Criminal Court’s privileges and immunities, with the aim of ratifying the International Criminal Court Privileges and Immunities Agreement by 1 July 2018.
The Australian Government is not proposing to become a signatory to or to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance at this time.
The Australian Government continues to give internal consideration to acceding to the First and Second Protocols to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
Australia is in the process of considering ratification of the prohibited weapons war crimes and crime of aggression amendments to the Rome Statute in accordance with our domestic processes.