Sex Discrimination
Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020)
Workplace sexual harassment is prevalent and pervasive: it occurs in every industry, in every location and at every level, in Australian workplaces.
Sex Discrimination
Children's Rights
The UN Children's Convention and Australia (1991)
On 17 December 1990 Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child which had been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly only a little over one year earlier (20 November 1989). The Convention had already been ratified by a total of 96 countries as of 4 September 1991. If...
Race Discrimination
Racist Violence (1991)
The National Inquiry into Racist Violence was initiated by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission following representations to it about an apparent increase in the incidence of racially motivated violence in Australia.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Toomelah Review (1989)
On 15 June 1988 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released the Toomelah Report, containing the results of its inquiry into the social and material needs of Aborigines in the New South Wales/Queensland border towns of Toomelah and Boggabilla. The Commission undertook at the time to...
Disability Rights
Schizophrenia (1989)
Papers presented at a Symposium on Schizophrenia and Human Rights. Sponsored by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Schizophrenia Australia Foundation.
Children's Rights
Our Homeless Children
Report of the National Inquiry into Youth Homelessness In 1987, after consulting with a wide range of individuals and organisations attempting to assist homeless children, analysing current policy directions and surveying the available literature, the Commission decided that there was a clear need...
Children's Rights
Our Homeless Children: Their Experiences
Report by Dr Ian O'Connor to the National Inquiry into Homeless Children by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Commission – General
Consultation with National Peak Non-Government Organisations
Chris Sidoti - Secretary, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission In welcoming participants to the Commission's first annual consultation with NGOs, Chris Sidoti said that the Commission saw three main objectives for the meeting: (a) to maximize exchange of opinions (b) to promote an increased...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Toomelah Report (1988)
The Toomelah community of five hundred Aboriginal people endures appalling living conditions which amount to a denial to them of the most basic rights taken for granted by most other groups in society, and by other Australian communities of similar size. Their houses are substandard and overcrowded,...
Race Discrimination
Strategies in Combating Racism (1988)
In devising strategies to deal with racism a broad number of preliminary questions must be answered. Racism itself must be identified in its various manifestations, a complex task given the changing face of the phenomenon and the shifting form of its expression at different times and places.
Rights and Freedoms
Human Rights for Australia
A survey of human rights literature and developments and a select bibliography (1986). This publication was prepared for the former Human Rights Commission (1981-86) The former Commission was a distinct statubody body from the Australian Human Rights Commission. It shold not be assumed that the...
Education
