Links to Human Rights Organisations and Resources
Commission – General
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice
- Age discrimination
- Community Partnerships for Human Rights
- Disability rights
- General
- Human rights
- Human rights education resources
- Legal
- Links to Federal Legislation
- Race discrimination
- Sex discrimination
- Social Justice
- State and Territory Anti-discrimination and Equal Opportunity Agencies
- United Nations websites
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
- National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
- Government Services for Aboriginal and Islander Peoples
Research and key resources
- Australian Bureau of Statistics - Indigenous specific data -
- Indigenous Law Resources (Austlii: Australian Legal Information Institute site)
- Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
- Indigenous Law Centre (UNSW)
- AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research)
- National Native Title Tribunal
- Australian Institute for Criminology (Indigenous Justice in Australia)
- Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC)
- Royal Commission into the Protection of Children in Detention in the NT
- Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project
Health
- Oxfam Australia : Close the Gap
- Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA)
- Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
- Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINAM)
- Co-operative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
- Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance (AMSANT)
- National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
- Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW
- Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia
- Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC)
- Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA)
- Indigenous Australian Research Program: Alcohol and Other Drugs Databases
- Aboriginal Sobriety Group Inc. (ASG)
- Council for Aboriginal Alcohol Program Services
Indigenous media
- National Indigenous Times (NIT)
- Koori Mail
- National Indigenous Television (NITV)
- Message Stick (ABC Television)
- Imparja Television
- Warlpiri Media Association
Stolen Generations Groups and Information
- Healing Foundation
- National Sorry Day Committee (NSDC) - archived site
- Stolen Generation Alliance
- Link up services
- National Library of Australia: Bringing Them Home Oral History Project
- AIATSIS family history unit
NGOs
- Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
- Reconciliation Australia
- Oxfam Australia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (Archived site)
- Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive
International sites
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
- Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and Information (DoCIP)
Age Discrimination
Australian links
- Australian Council on the Ageing
- Australian Government Department of Education and Training
- Council on the Ageing (NSW)
- Elder Law Review
- HRM Guide
- JobWise
- NSW Commission for Children and Young People
- Older Women's Network NSW
International links
Community Partnerships for Human Rights
- Australian Multicultural Education Service
- Australian Multicultural Foundation
- Australian Red Cross
- Community Languages Australia
- www.culturaldiversity.net.au
- Department of Social Services
- Department of Home Affairs
Disability Rights
Australian Government
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: Disability Ageing and Carers 1998
- Mental health branch resources page
- National Disability and Carer Ministerial Advisory Council
State and Territory government bodies
- Disability Services Queensland
- NSW Ageing, Disability and Home Care Department
- W.A. Disability Services Commission
Peak / major organisations
- NDS
- Association of Consultants in Access
- Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
- Spinal Cord Injuries Australia
- Blind Citizens Australia
- Carers NSW Association
- Council on the Ageing
- Deaf Australia
- Deafness Forum
- Mental Health Council of Australia
- Mental Health Advocacy Service
- National Council on Intellectual Disability
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance
- People with Disability Australia
- Physical Disability Council of Australia
- Women With Disabilities Australia
Industry and employer organisations
- Australian Building Codes Board
- Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Australian Local Government Association
- Communications Alliance
- Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia
Links and news pages
- accessibility.com.au
- NDS NSW's links page
- Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
- Enablenet: Disability Information Resource Centre portal
- European Disability Federation news page
- NSW State Library Disability Referral Guide
- Web Content Accessibility guidelines fact sheet
United Nations
- Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment on Disability
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
- Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
- UN Rapporteur on Disability home page
- UN Social Development Commission disability page
For more Disability Rights links and resources visit the Disability Rights section of this site where a more extensive list of disability links is maintained.
General
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Human Rights
- Attorney-General's Department, Commonwealth Government
- Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)
- Australasian Legal Information Institute (Austlii)
- Beyond Bullying - research and management of bullying behaviours
- Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Global Issues: Human Rights
- Derechos Caf: A Human Rights Hangout
- Edmund Rice Centre - Awareness, Advocacy, Action
- Equal Treatment Benchbook: Supreme Court of Qld
PDF - Human Rights Art and Film Festival, Australia
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission decisions (on Austlii)
- Human Rights Web: Human Rights Organisations and Resources
- LawAccess Online
- Legal Aid Commission (ACT)
- Legal Aid NSW
- Legal Aid Commission Northern Territory
- Legal Aid Services South Australia
- Legal Aid Tasmania
- Legal Aid Victoria
- Legal Aid Western Australia
- National Human Rights Institutions Forum
- National Social Security Rights Network (NSSRN)
- One World Online
- Refugee and Humanitarian visas to Australia (Dept. Home Affairs)
- Settlement Council of Australia
- Sydney Talks
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 70 years
Human Rights
General Resources
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- Auseinet: Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health
- Australian Law Reform Commission
- Australian Reproductive Health Alliance
- Bayefsky.com: The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
- BBC World Service: Children's rights
- BBC World Service: I have a right to....helps you understand your rights
- Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP)
- Human Rights Council of Australia
- Lawstuff: National Children's and Youth Law Centre
- NSW Council for Civil Liberties
- Oxfam Australia
- Refugee Council of Australia
- Religious Tolerance.org
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United States Department of State
- World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
International human rights treaties and other instruments:
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- Convention Concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (ILO 111)
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Declaration of the Rights of the Child
- Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
- Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, and
- Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (ILO 156)
Human Rights Education Resources
The links below are to external websites and are a useful starting point in research. The sites contain invaluable information to assist teaching human rights. For resources developed by the Commission click here.
Australian resources
- A Just Australia - Just Refugee Programs
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission - Classroom (The Commission no longer exists - website is preserved by National Library of Australia's Pandora Archive)
- ACTU Worksite for Schools
- Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
- Australian Human Rights Centre
- Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
- Bullying. No way!
- Free Documentaries online - Human Rights documentaries
- Inspire Foundation
- Lawstuff - Know Your Rights
- NSW Commission for Children and Young People - Student Resources
- Oxfam - getting schools involved
- Play by the rules
- Racism. No Way! - Classroom Activities
- Reach Out
- Reconciliation Australia
- United Nations Association of Australia
- World Vision Australia
International resources
- CRIN (Child Rights Information Network)
- HREA - Human Rights Education Associates
- Human Rights Watch
- New Internationalist magazine
- 1951 Refugee Convention website
- OneWorld.net
- People's Movement for Human Rights Education
- State of World Population 2017
- Tolerance.org
- United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- World Bank Group - Kids and Schools
Legal
Australia
International
United Nations
- United Nations
- UN daily news
- UN High Commission for Refugees
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations Human Rights Committee (the treaty body responsible for monitoring the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)
- United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Other inter-governmental human rights entities/tribunals/courts
- African Commission on Human and People's Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- International Labour Organisation
- Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Institutions of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Government human rights and anti-discrimination institutions
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights
- National Human Rights Commission of India
- New Zealand Human Rights Commission
- Northern Ireland Equality Commission
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Quebec Human Rights Tribunal
- South African Human Rights Commission
- South African Commission on Gender Equality
- United Kingdom Equality and Human Rights Commission
Legal research
On-line tools useful for human rights/discrimination law issues
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
- Australian Human Rights Commission Decisions on AUSTLII
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- American Society of International Law - Legal News and Commentary
- Human Rights Documentation Centre
- Supreme Court of Canada Judgements
- Supreme Court of the United States
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Journals relevant to human rights/discrimination law
- African Human Rights Law Journal - University of Pretoria
- South African Journal on Human Rights
- Australian Journal of Human Rights
- Canadian Human Rights Reporter
- Emory International Law Review
- European Journal of International Law
- Forced Migration Review
- Harvard Human Rights Journal
- Human Rights Defender
- Human Rights Quarterly - Project Muse
- Human Rights Law Review - Oxford Journals
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- Intersentia - Human Rights Publications
- Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights
- Melbourne Journal of International Law
- University of Denver, Human Rights Working Papers
- University of Ottawa, Human Rights Research and Education Bulletin
- Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
General
- Aboriginal Law and Legislation
- Amnesty International
- Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet
- Foolkit - a lawyer's toolkit
- Human Rights Law Research Guide (Georgetown University)
- Human Rights and Human Welfare
- Human Rights Watch
- HG.org world wide legal directory - Human Rights
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- International Human Rights Law Group
- Human Rights First
- Liberty Victoria
- Monash University Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Northwestern University School of Law, Centre for International Human Rights
- Outright - LGBTI international rights
- The Human Rights Council of Australia
- The Refugee Council of Australia
Links to Federal Legislation
- Age Discrimination Act 2004
- Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
- Disability Discrimination Act 1992
- Native Title Act 1993
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975
- Sex Discrimination Act 1984
Racial discrimination
Useful sites for Employers and Employees:
Useful sites for students
- Overseas Students Ombudsman
- Study in Australia
- The Australian Federation of International Students
- The National Union of Students
- The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations
Australian Government
- Australian Multicultural Council
- Australian Education International
- Department of Immigration and Citizenship
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Other useful sites:
- All Together Now
- Challenging Racism - the Anti-Racism Research Project
- Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia
- Lawstuff: know your rights
- Making Multicultural Australia
- National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
- Play by the Rules
- Racism: No Way!
- Refugee Council of Australia
- Settlement Council of Australia
- Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
Sex discrimination
Australian Government
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Indicators
- Australian Government Office for Women
- National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children 2010-2022
- Workplace Gender Equality Agency
State and Territory government bodies
- Office for Women, ACT
- Office for Women, New South Wales
- Office for Women, Queensland
- Office for Women, South Australia
- Office of Women's Policy, Northern Territory
- Office of Women's Policy, Victoria
- Women Tasmania
International
- Equal Opportunities Commission, United Kingdom
- Gender and Education Association
- Ministry of Women's Affairs, New Zealand
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
- Status of Women, Canada
- UN Women
- United Nations - WomenWatch
- United States Department of Labour, Women's Bureau
- V-Day: Global movement to stop violence against women and girls
- Women and Equality Unit, United Kingdom
- Women for Women International
Women's Community Organisations and other links
- Australian Women's Health Network
- Country Women's Association of Australia
- Immigrant Women's Speakout Association
- Older Women's Network
- Rural Women's Network
- White Ribbon : Stop Violence Against Women
- Working Women's Centres
- Women's Electoral Lobby Inc., Australia
State and Territory Anti-discrimination and Equal Opportunity Agencies
- ACT Human Rights Commission
- Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
- Anti-Discrimination Commission of Queensland
- Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia
- Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission
- Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commission (Tasmania)
- South Australia Equal Opportunity Commission
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
United Nations websites
General
- United Nations
- United Nations Association of Australia
- United Nations Documentation Research Guide: Human Rights
- United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Committee Against Torture
- Consideration of Reports
- Decisions and Views
- Individual Complaints, Press Releases and Other Documents
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- General Comments, Concluding Observations on State Party Reports, Reports Pending and other Documents
- Press Releases and other Documents
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- General Recommendations, Reports and Other Documents
- United Nations and the Status of Women
- United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- General Recommendations, Opinions, State Party Reports and Other Documents
- Individual Complaints and Other Documents
