Marshalls' UN rights review today

7:35 pm on 11 May 2015

The promotion of human rights in the Marshall Islands is under United Nations review in Geneva from tonight.

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The review comes a few weeks after a US State Department report cited issues with prison conditions, government corruption and domestic violence.

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The Marshalls' last Universal Periodic Review was in 2010 which resulted in 38 recommendations to work on around various rights treaties and concerns.

Currently the islands have one of the lowest human rights treaty ratification records in the region.