Australian officials will be grilled over the country's human rights record at a United Nations meeting next week.

A delegation will appear before the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday for what's known as a universal periodic review.

All of the UN's 193 member states are required to undergo the review - which aims to examine every aspect of a country's human rights record - every four years.

The first and last time Australia was in the hot seat was in 2011.

About 50 countries participated in that review and made 145 recommendations.

The federal government accepted most in whole or part, except calls to change its detention and treatment of asylum seekers.

The issue will be on the agenda again, UN documents show, with the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK planning to ask about the condition of offshore processing centres, marriage equality, violence against women and children, indigenous land rights and counter-terrorism laws.

John Reid, from the international law and human rights division of the Attorney-General's department, will head Australia's delegation.