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The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Federal Government"s Discussion Paper: Access to Aboriginal Land under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act - Time for Change?

The only instance that differential treatment is acceptable is when it undertaken to attempt to secure substantive equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Learn that under human rights law, no person shall be subjected to torture or subjected without free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.

Back to rights and freedoms: right by right ICCPR Article 23.1 states: 1. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. In this area the ICCPR overlaps substantially with the ICESCR. ICESCR Article 10 states: The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that: Special protection should be accorded to mothers…

This submission proposes and outlines a human rights-based response to developing a national approach to the prevention, intervention and management of FASD.

The Australian Human Rights and Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) in its inquiry into the ratification of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

The RDA was the first Commonwealth unlawful discrimination statute to be enacted and is different in a number of ways from the subsequent SDA, DDA and ADA. This is because it is based to a large extent on, and takes important parts of its statutory language from, the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination ('ICERD').1

Submissions - OPCAT Civil Society Consultation Submissions received by the Australian Human Rights Commission in response to the guideline questions its OPCAT in Australia Consultation Paper (2017) available here. You can follow the progress of our consultations at our OPCAT Consultation Page. Submissions from organisations and individuals Where a submission is not available it is either

In signing CEDAW, Australia committed itself to being a society that promotes policies, laws, organisations, structures and attitudes that ensure women are guaranteed the same rights as men.

I welcome this opportunity to follow up on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s work in the inquest into the death of Mr Ward. Many of the Commission’s submissions were accepted by the Coroner and reflected in his findings and recommendations.

Back to rights and freedoms: Right by right Introduction | Commission work | International scrutiny | More information | Comments Introduction Article 6 of the ICCPR states: Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be …