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14 December 2012Book page
Young people in the workplace: Introduction - rightsED
Young people in the workplace contains a series of activities and resources to help students explore the issues around workplace discrimination. The activities help students to draw comparisons between the dramatised workplace issues and their personal experiences by looking at how concepts of difference, discrimination and harassment may operate in their daily lives. -
14 December 2012Book page
Community Partnerships for Human Rights program
The Australian Human Rights Commission's Community Partnerships for Human Rights (CPHR) program has one central goal: to increase social inclusion and counter discrimination and intolerance towards Australia’s Muslim communities. -
14 December 2012Book page
25th Anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act (Cth) 1984
The SDA is amended to extend the prohibition of sexual harassment; allow for representative complaints; bring industrial awards under the act and introduce conciliation as a method for addressing victimisation. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012PublicationNorfolk Island's Immigration Act and human rights
During 1997-98, in response to four complaints, the Commission conducted an inquiry into Norfolk Island's Immigration Act 1980. Norfolk Island is a territory of the Commonwealth and the only inhabited external territory not covered by the Commonwealth's Migration Act 1958. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia commends the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski in particular, for instituting the Children in Immigration Detention Inquiry. -
Children's Rights
22 August 2013SpeechChildren’s rights: everyone, everywhere everyday
<h2><br><a name="Heading13"></a><a name="Heading14"></a></h2> <h4><br><a name="Heading15"></a><a name="Heading16"></a><strong>Megan Mitchell</strong><br><a name="Heading17"></a><strong>National Children’s Commissioner</strong><br><a name="Heading18"></a><strong>Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Castan Centre Human Rights Law Conference</strong><br><strong>Human Rights 2013</strong><br><strong>The Edge, Federation Square</strong><br><strong>Corner of Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne </strong><br><strong>Friday 26 July 2013</strong></p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 1999-2000: Appendix 3
<p><a name="anchor" id="anchor"></a> </p> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="BodyText" --><p> <a href="/about/publications/annual_reports/1999_2000/index.html">Back<br> to 1999 - 2000 Annual Report Contents<br><br> </a><br></p> -
Sex Discrimination
30 November 2021SpeechLaunch of Set the Standard
Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins launches “Set the Standard” report aims to improve safety and respect in Australian parliamentary workplaces. -
14 December 2012Book page
Needs and options for improved access to information and advice on accommodating disability in employment
Places are strictly limited and by invitation only: expressions of interest please to disabdis@humanrights.gov.au including notice of requirements for interpreting or other specific requirements. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
9 July 2013WebpageRefugees with adverse security assessments page
View the Commission's concerns about the treatment of refugees, including those who have received adverse security assessments from ASIO. -
Rights and Freedoms
11 May 2016Speech
Human rights across the Tasman: a widening gulf
<p>I am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship.&nbsp;</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012SpeechSite navigation
We are on Aboriginal land – and as a mark of respect to the traditional owners of this country – I want to recognise their culture and their law because they are integral to what we now call Coogee. -
14 December 2012Book page
Human Rights: On the record: Recruitment (Chapter 5)
If an employer has a fair and open process of dealing with the disclosure of criminal records at the outset, many complaints of discrimination can be avoided. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Links to Human Rights Organisations and Resources
This website contains links to other websites that are external to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The Commission takes reasonable care in linking websites but has no direct control over the content of the linked sites, or the changes that may occur to the content on those sites. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
9 January 2014Publication
Those who've come across the seas: Detention of unauthorised arrivals
HREOC’s report, tabled in federal Parliament on 12 May 1998, deals with the policy of mandatory detention of most unauthorised arrivals and the conditions of detention for those detained. The report had its origins in the many complaints received by HREOC from, or on behalf of, people in immigration detention centres. -
Disability Rights
8 May 2019Media ReleaseRoyal Commission into Violence, Abuse and Neglect of People with Disability
<p><strong>Statement from Alastair McEwin, Disability Discrimination Commissioner</strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">I support the motion to hold a Royal Commission into the violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability. I call upon the Government to act immediately on this motion by proceeding to establish the Royal Commission without further delay.</span></p> -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
24 August 2020Publication
Mr AP v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs)
Mr AP v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2019] AusHRC 134 Report into complaint of arbitrary detention -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
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The theme of this Conference - Human Rights and Equality for Women in the 21st Century - is rich fare for any time of the day. It calls for speculation about the future and assessment of the past; it invites fresh perspectives and challenges the imagination; it asks for re-examination of motives and goals. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
For further information contact: Damian Griffis Senior Policy Officer - Systemic Advocacy People with Disabilities (NSW) Inc PO Box 666 STRAWBERRY HILLS NSW 2012 Telephone: (02) 9319 6622 Facsimile: (02) 9318 1372 Email: damiang@pwd.org.au -
14 December 2012Book page
Telecommunications equipment and the Disability Discrimination Act
This note was written in response to a request, at an ACIF (Australian Telecommunications Industry Forum) meeting, for clarification of rights and responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act regarding provision of equipment which is accessible to and useable by people with disabilities.