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The Australian Human Rights Commission made a submission to the Department of Social Services’ 2024 Review of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-31. Human Rights The CRPD represents a fundamental shift in how disability should be viewed and understood, applying universal human rights principles to State obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the specific rights of people with…

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1. Introduction The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to provide the Department of Social Services (DSS) with this submission in response to the National Disability Strategy: Position Paper [i] (the Position Paper) regarding the development of a new National Disability Strategy (the New Strategy). The Commission is Australia’s national human rights …

Letter from June Oscar and Anne Hollonds on input to the development of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Early Childhood Strategy

The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomed the opportunity to make this submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in relation to its Inquiry into the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024 (No. 2). This Private Members Bill, sponsored by Ms Kylea Tink MP and Senator David Pocock is to be commended for applying a human rights-based approach to housing policy (direct…

Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 18 September 2017 Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Priority areas 3 General information 3.1 Scrutiny of human rights and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (ICCPR article 2; LOI 2 & 4) 3…

The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) in relation to its ‘Review of AFP Powers’.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (the Royal Commission).

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Recommendations 4 Surrogacy and human rights 4.1 What is surrogacy? 4.2 Human rights issues in surrogacy arrangements 5 Current regulation of domestic surrogacy in Australia 6 Options for future domestic regulation: increase consistency and certainty domestically 6.1 Previous attempts at national consistency 6.2 Identifying people willing to enter…

Inquiry into Strengthening Multiculturalism Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism 19 May 2017 Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Recommendations 4 Multiculturalism in Australia 5 Government and other official support for multiculturalism 6 Issues facing Australia’s multicultural society 6.1 Racial discrimination and its…

Violence against women in Australia AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SUBMISSION TO THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 20 January 2017 Download PDF Download Word Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Recommendations 4 Background information 5 Recent developments in Australia 5.1 National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 5.2 Relevant Federal…