Rights and freedoms: web links
Rights and Freedoms
Links from bayefsky.com
bayefsky.com is an extensive collection of resources maintained by leading human rights academic Anne Bayefsky and colleagues. In many cases it provides easier access than the official UN document versions.
The site includes
- an introduction to the human rights treaty system;
- the text of the treaties and amendments;
- pages for each country;
- pages organised by category of document;
- pages by theme or subject matter;
- information on how to make complaints including forms;
- Committee working methods and information on treaty system reform; and
- a portal which provides extensive links to academic resources, non-government organisations, and further United Nations human rights resources.
Country page for Australia
The country page for Australia includes links to
- Ratifications
- Reservations, Declarations, Objections and Derogations
- Reporting History
- Treaty Reports
- Core Reports
- Lists of Issues
- Replies to Lists of Issues
- Summary Records of committee dialogue with Australia
- Concluding Observations
- Committee views on communications
- Special Decisions or Action Taken Concerning Reporting
- Follow-up: State Reporting
- Follow-up: Committee views
- Miscellaneous Correspondence
Australian Government
Attorney-General's Department
- Guidance sheets on human rights
- In our hands: a guide to human rights for Australian public servants
- Information about parliamentary scrutiny of human rights
- Tools for assessing human rights compatibility
- National Human Rights Consultation Report
- Human Rights Framework page
- Universal Periodic Review page
- National Human Rights Action Plan page
- Human rights treaty body reporting page: includes links to consideration of recent reports by Australia
- Human Rights recommendations database
- Human Rights Communications: information on complaint procedures under human rights treaties including current and past complaints involving Australia
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- DFAT human rights page: includes information on treaty reporting and regional engagement as well as activities of the Australian missions to the UN in New York and Geneva
Parliamentary Library
United Nations
See also our pages on Commission engagement with UN bodies and submissions to United Nations bodies
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- OHCHR home page including links and information on human rights treaty bodies , extensive issues pages and publications
- Country page for Australia including observations by treaty bodies and reports by Special Rapporteurs
United Nations Human Rights Council
Human rights based approaches
Human rights based approaches portal
Human rights treaty bodies
- General Comments by human rights treaty bodies
- Individual Complaints procedures under human rights treaties
Committee Against Torture
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Human Rights Committee
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Committee homepage: Includes links to reporting guidelines (PDF); handbook for parliamentarians; guidance for human rights monitors
Other United Nations human rights links
National Human Rights Institutions
Australia
- ACT Human Rights Commission
Site includes reports of human rights audits and submissions, publications and speeches by the ACT Human Rights Commissioner - 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
Site includes reports and factsheets on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
International
- OHCHR page on National Human Rights Institutions including Paris Principles on NHRIs
- Definition, jurisdiction and powers of national institutions : Paper by Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Paris, October 1991
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- National Human Rights institutions Forum
Non-government organisation links
See also our pages on more specific issues including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social Justice; age discrimination; children's rights; disability rights; race discrimination; sex discrimination; and sexuality, sex and gender identity for more links in these areas
Human rights - general
- Amnesty International Australian section
- Australian Human Rights Centre (UNSW)
- Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
- Castan Centre for Human rights Law (Monash University)
- Human Rights Law Centre
- Human Rights Council of Australia
- International Commission of Jurists Australian section
- Law Council of Australia including human rights pages and Rule of Law principles
- Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Councils for civil liberties
- Liberty Victoria
- NSW Council for Civil Liberties
- Qld Council for Civil Liberties
- Civil Liberties Australia
Former Human Rights Commission (1981 - 86)
- Annual Reports for the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights for Australia: survey and bibliography from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Reports, discussion papers and occasional papers from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Community Relations Papers from the former Community Relations Commissioner
- Education resources from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
Other resources
- Australian Human Rights Law Wiki
- Australian Journal of Human RIghts
- Kate Eastman's Human Rights Resources
- US State Department country reports for Australia: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
- European Court of Human Rights
- UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights