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Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes ver 4.1 (2014)
Access for people with a disability to the web can in almost all cases be readily achieved if best-practice solutions are implemented. A complaint of disability discrimination is much less likely to succeed if reasonable steps have been taken to address accessibility during the design stage. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Know your rights about disability discrimination and harassment
Disability discrimination is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person without the disability in the same or similar circumstances. -
Commission – General24 May 2013Webpage
Commission reports raising ICCPR Article 10
This page is intended to provide easier access to reports responding to complaints under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act which raise ICCPR Article 10 issues. All AHRCA reports are also found on our general reports page. No 56 - Sri Lankan refugees v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Citizenship ) (2012) Detention of asylum seekers with adverse security assessments ... -
Rights and Freedoms24 May 2013Webpage
Communications raising ICCPR Article 10
Brough v Australia (2006) Views of Committee in Word and PDF Government response in Word and PDF Aboriginal youth with intellectual disability and suicidal thoughts detained in isolation in adult prison including 24 hours a day lighting. Human rights violations found regarding articles 10 and 24. Claim by Australia that domestic remedies not exhausted, rejected in detail. Cabal and Pasini v ... -
24 May 2013Webpage
Submissions raising ICCPR Article 10
Examination of the Migration (Regional Processing) package of legislation - January 2013 Human rights discussed: ICCPR Articles 2.1, 2.2, 7, 9.1, 9.4, 14, 17, 23, 26; ICESCR Articles 6, 11; CRC Articles 2, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1, 20, 22,37.b; CAT Articles 3, 16 Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012 - December 2012 Human rights discussed: ICCPR Articles 6, 7, 9 ... -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice24 May 2013Speech
Implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples
Ms Mandy Doherty and Ms Jenny Bedford delivered the following joint statement on 22 May 2013 to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on behalf of the Australian Government and the Australian Human Rights Commission. We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we are meeting on today and pay our respects to elders past and present. This is a joint statement of ... -
Sex Discrimination14 December 2012Speech
Speeches on Sex Discrimination Issues
Speeches on Sex Discrimination Issues Click here to visit the Sex Discrimination section [ Year: 2012 : 2011 : 2010 : 2009 : 2008 : 2007 : 2006 : 2005 : 2004 : 2002 : 2001 : 2000 : 1998 : 1997 : 1996 ] 2012 Working without fear Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney, 30 October, 2012 Thinking outside the (family home) box: domestic violence ... -
Rights and Freedoms25 May 2013Project
Human rights and the Internet
The Internet provides unparalleled opportunities for the promotion and advancement of certain rights -
Commission – General28 May 2013Webpage
Summary of UPR recommendations and responses
The Australian Government accepted in full or in part over 90 percent of recommendations made by other Governments in Australia's first Universal Periodic Review process. The Commission will report regularly on progress in implementation of these commitments, which will also be examined at Australia's next UPR appearance in 2016. Report including UPR recommendations (PDF) . Full government ... -
3 June 2013Webpage
RightsTalk: Human rights and video games speakers
Back to RightsTalk Katie Williams - freelance games journalist and critic who has written for PC Gamer, PC PowerPlay, GameSpy, IGN, Hyper magazine, TouchArcade, Kotaku Australia, Games.on.net, Atomic, and WarCry. Katie is the newly appointed director of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival taking place in Melbourne this September. Brendan Keogh - videogame critic and PhD candidate at RMIT ... -
Sex Discrimination14 December 2012Webpage
Sex Discrimination - International Activities
Learn how the Human Rights Commission works to eliminate all forms of sex discrimination against women around the world. -
Children's Rights5 June 2013Speech
Learning through Listening
Opening plenary session of 5th SNAICC National Conference - For Our Children: Living and Learning Together -
Rights and Freedoms6 June 2013Webpage
Permissible limitations on rights
See how some human rights are recognised as absolute rights that can't be limited, including freedom from torture, slavery and retrospective criminal laws. -
Rights and Freedoms8 June 2013Webpage
Right to a name and nationality
Back to rights and freedoms: right by right ICCPR Article 24 states: ... Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality. Rights in this area are also recognised in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) , the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against ... -
Rights and Freedoms11 June 2013Project
Review of Universal Periodic Review commitments by Australia
What is the UPR and why does it matter | Commitments made at Australia's first UPR appearance | Review of commitments | Comments What is the UPR and why does it matter The Universal Periodic Review is a process undertaken by the United Nations Human Rights Council. It involves review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. The UPR is different from other ... -
11 June 2013Webpage
Australia's 2nd National Human Rights Action Plan
A second National Action Plan for Australia was released in 2004 by Prime Minister John Howard and provided to the United Nations. This Plan is dificult to find on Australian Government or United Nations sites. It is linked from this page in PDF and MS Word formats for ease of access. ... -
Rights and Freedoms11 June 2013Webpage
Australia's 1st National Human Rights Action Plan (1994)
In 1994 Australia was the first nation in the world to provide a National Action Plan on Human Rights. This Plan is now difficult to find on Australian Government or United Nations sites and so it is attached here in MS Word and PDF formats for convenient access together with a 1995 update. Australia: Initial Human Rights Action Plan (Word ) or PDF 1995 update (Word) or PDF ... -
Rights and Freedoms11 June 2013Webpage
National Human Rights Action Plan
In 1993 the World Conference on Human Rights recommended that each State consider the desirability of drawing up a national action plan identifying steps whereby that State would improve the promotion and protection of human rights. This was a result of an initiative by Australia, and was a concept principally developed by Mr Bill Barker of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ... -
12 June 2013Webpage
Submission on Anti-Genocide Bill 1999
Submission by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Genocide Bill 1999 (February 2000) Submission covers The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and its previous discussions of genocide. The background and coverage of the Genocide Convention. Defining Genocide and the Commission’s ... -
Rights and Freedoms13 June 2013Webpage
Definition, jurisdiction and powers of national institutions
United Nations Workshop on National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights Paris, 7-9 October 1991 Paper submitted by the Federal Human Rights Commissioner of Australia (Mr Brian Burdekin) ...