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As South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day, the clock is ticking down to the deadline for the country's submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHCR) "human rights scoresheet".
The government's report for the UNHCR's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is due in August this year, but experts say South Africa still has much work to do if it wants to raise its standing.
The UPR is given to member states every four and a half years. South Africa's last review, its third, was in 2017. During that review, the UNHCR gave South Africa 243 recommendations, of which 187 were accepted. Most of the recommendations centred around combating racial discrimination, hate speech and xenophobia; fighting violence against women; and protecting the rights of vulnerable groups.
