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14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This submission draws substantially on research papers by Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei which are currently pending publication. The content of this submission may not be reproduced or quoted without the written permission of these authors. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
In accordance with its supervisory responsibilities and Article 35 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) on its national inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Refugee Advice Casework Service (RACS) is a Community Legal Service which provides free legal advice and representation to asylum seekers in the community and detention in Australia. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) is the peak body in Australia for people from a non-English speaking background (NESB) with disability, their families and carers. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
1. The provisions made by Australia to implement its international human rights obligations regarding child asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Thank you for your letter received on 2 January 2002 in which you enclose a copy of the terms of reference of the Commission's National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Australia's Immigration Detention Centres are contradictory to the human rights of the child. The Immigration Detention experience is extremely harmful to children and has effects of traumatisation and re-traumatisation during the Detention experience and continuing after release. Concerning alternatives to Detention, the present options are also not geared towards the best interest of the child. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
ChilOut was established in July 2001 by a group of concerned parents and citizens who felt compelled to advocate and act on behalf of children and their parents living in Australia's immigration detention centres (IDC). -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 31/01/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 22/02/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 21/03/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 03/04/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 29/04/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 06/05/2002 Letter to Mr Philip Ruddock MP 09/06/2002 -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This submission addresses some of the issues and questions raised in the background papers prepared by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and its 1967 Protocol (the Refugee Convention). The conclusions drawn in this submission arise out of the experiences of staff and members of the Uniting Church in Australia. We do acknowledge that the evidence presented here is therefore anecdotal. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The lack of coherence and logic in decisions as regards detainees ethnicity and the veracity of their stories - primary decision makers failure rate as compared to RRT decisions which saw many boys kept in detention for up to 12 months longer than boys who arrived at the same time from the same area on the same boat - some friends still remain in detention today up to two years later when the boys know they are Hazara with the same history and the same claim to protection - leading to complete distrust in the whole system -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Social Justice Report 2005 : Home
I am pleased to present to you the Social Justice Report 2005. The report is provided in accordance with section 46C(1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986. This provides that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is to submit a report regarding the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders, and including recommendations as to the action that should be taken to ensure the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by those persons. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This submission has been produced by the Queensland Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT) and the Youth Advocacy Centre (YAC). The submission is also endorsed by a number of individuals and organisations working directly or indirectly with asylum seekers and refugees (See list on page 2). Their staff hear similar stories and reports from their clients and have come to similar or the same conclusions as those in this report. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Reports
Under the Native Title Act 1993, the Social Justice Commissioner is required to prepare a Native Title Report each year for federal Parliament. Through these reports the Commissioner gives a human rights perspective on native title issues and advocates for practical co-existence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups in using land. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2011
I am pleased to present to you the Native Title Report 2011 (the Report), which I have prepared in accordance with section 209 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2010
I am pleased to present to you the Native Title Report 2010 (the Report), which I have prepared in accordance with section 209 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). The Report reviews developments in native title law and policy from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 (the Reporting Period). -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2009
I have also used this opportunity to examine the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in light of other changes to policy and legislation made between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2009 in accordance with section 46C(1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth). -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2008
The report is focused on two main topics. First I give an overview of changes to native title law and policy, and summarise native title cases that were heard during the reporting period. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2007: Index
I am pleased to present to you the Native Title Report 2007 which reports on the operation of the Native Title Act 1993 and its effect on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in accordance with Section 209 of the Native Title Act 1993. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Native Title Report 2006: Index
The report is provided in accordance with section 209 of the Native Title Act 1993. In light of recent developments in land rights during the reporting period, I have also examined the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islander persons in accordance with section 46(1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986.
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