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Childrens Rights

'Help Way Earlier!'- transforming child justice for safety & wellbeing

Report artwork copyright Bernard Singleton and Saltwater People 2024. 'Help way earlier!’ How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing investigates opportunities for reform of child justice and related systems across Australia based on children’s rights and sound...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Social Justice Report 2003:

Social Justice Report 2003 Download the Social Justice Report 2003 Executive Summary Recommendations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reconciliation and government accountability Chapter 3: Indigenous participation in decision making - Transforming the relationship between government and...
Commission - General

Annual Report 2002-2003: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Annual Report 2002 - 2003 Download complete PDF (3.6 MB) Contents Significant Achievements Statement from the President Chapter 1: The Commission Outcomes structure Human rights education and promotion Chapter 2: Complaint Handling Section Chapter 3...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2002

Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Recognition of native title Introduction Human Rights Standards relevant to the Recognition of Native Title Cultural Rights Equality and Non-Discrimination Relationship between equality and rights of minorities to protection of their culture Freedom of Religion and...
Legal

Review of the Federal Unlawful Discrimination Jurisdiction

Change and Continuity: Review of the Federal Unlawful Discrimination Jurisdiction September 2000 - September 2002 This review was prepared following legislative changes affecting the enforceability of decisions made under federal discrimination law. Click on the links below to access: "Change and...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

HREOC Social Justice Report 2002

Social Justice Report 2002 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Self-determination – the freedom to ‘live well’ Chapter 3: National progress towards reconciliation in 2002 – an equitable partnership? Chapter 4: Measuring Indigenous disadvantage Chapter 5: Indigenous women and corrections – A Landscape...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Social Justice Report 2001

Social Justice Report 2001 Contents Summary of the Social Justice Report 2001 Letter of submission Recommendations Chapter 1: Ten years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Chapter 2: Mutual obligation, welfare reform and Indigenous participation: a human rights perspective...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2001

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund
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Disability Rights

The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia

The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia: issues and progress (2001)by Susan Brady, John Britton & Sonia GroverA Report jointly commissioned by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner and the Disability Discrimination Commissioner at...
Rights and Freedoms

Human Rights and Mental Illness

The Report of the National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness was tabled in Parliament and publicly released on 20 October, 1993. Over a three year period the Inquiry received nearly 900 written submissions, heard from over 450 witnesses at formal hearings and consulted with...
Disability Rights

Building bridges over the digital divide (2001)

This review has been prepared to identify developments in addressing the 'digital divide' experienced by older Australians and people with disabilities since the release of the Commission's report Accessibility of electronic commerce
Commission - General

Annual Report 2000-2001: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Annual Report 2000-2001 Download complete PDF of report Letter of submission Significant Achievements Statement from the President Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Organisational Chart Chapter 1: The Commission Chapter 2: Complaint Handling...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2000: Contents

Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Nation in dialogue The dialogue with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title Treating differences differently The PJC majority report Applying the test of 'legitimacy' to the NTA amendments The right to negotiat The dialogue with the CERD Committee, March...

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