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Asylum Seekers and Refugees
2 February 2014PublicationNational Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014: Discussion Paper
<h3><a name="_Toc209316062"></a><strong><em>Why are we holding this inquiry?</em></strong></h3> <p>The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate the ways in which life in immigration detention affects the health, well-being and development of children. The inquiry will assess the impact on children by seeking the views of people who were previously detained as children in closed immigration detention and by assessing the current circumstances and responses of children to immigration detention.</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Prisoners as Citizens:
The Commission convened a workshop in Sydney on 27 November 2000 on this topic. It was attended by more than 120 participants. The workshop was addressed by two keynote speakers: Dr William Jonas AM, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, and Baroness Vivien Stern from the International Centre for Prison Studie at King's College London who travelled to Australia as a guest of the Commission. Dr Jonas's keynote speech "Citizens Inside" can be read by clicking here. -
Complaint Information Service14 December 2012Webpage
Responding to complaints
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Legal
14 December 2012WebpageTemporary Exemption Application -Catholic Education Office
I am writing on behalf of the Catholic Education Office, Archdiocese of Sydney, ('the CEO') to request an exemption under section 44 of the Sex Discrimination Act ('the Act'). -
Children's Rights
13 June 2018Media ReleaseCommissioner welcomes Government response to Royal Commission
<p>National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment to a national apology to survivors of abuse, and the creation of a national office for child safety.</p> <p>The Government has today accepted or accepted in principle 104 of 122 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, with 18 recommendations still being considered.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech"Monitoring Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges for Australia: Dr Sev Ozdowski (2002)
Thank you Mr Wishardt for your invitation and kind introduction. I would like also to acknowledge Ms Wendy McCarthy, under whose stewardship PLAN is sure to go from strength to strength. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2001-2002: Chapter 6
Dr Ozdowski has made public education on human rights a priority for his term. Other priority areas are the elderly in our ageing society and children. Dr Ozdowski is working to progress the Commission’s 2000 recommendations for alleviating age discrimination, as set out in the report Age matters: a report on age discrimination. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
"The child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding". -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Refugees are a group at high nutrition risk. There is a strong duty of adequate nutritional care for institutionalised persons. The Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) is the largest member organisation for nutrition professionals in Australia. It is notable that DAA has been unable to identify significant input by nutrition professionals into the planning or provision of care for asylum seekers in Australia. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was chaired by Ms Vicki Mitsos, Chair of the Shepparton Ethnic Communities Council, and attended and facilitated by Susanna Iuliano and Omeima Sukkarieh from HREOC. It was attended by 80 invited participants who were studying English at the Goulburn-Ovens TAFE. The TAFE English teachers allocated their regular English class-time for the consultation and attended as observers. -
14 December 2012Book page
letter to canberra times
I hesitate to dignify with a response the second-hand article which the Canberra Times retailed yesterday, calling for discrimination in education against people with a mental illness on the basis of presumed dangerousness ("Entrance exams should test a student's mental suitability", 6 September). The article, referring to "bizarre inscriptions" and "gibberish", itself fitted those descriptions very well. I hope the rights to reprint this article did not cost the Canberra Times as much in money as in reputation. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
We needed more classrooms to run the classes so as to provide adequate contact time for both children and adults. To compensate for the lack of classrooms we used the messes and at times recreational rooms in the compounds. This didn’t provide nearly enough teaching venues and was really inappropriate as a teaching environment. Over the whole centre the total number of allocated classrooms (apart from the computer centres) in five compounds was five (three in the main compound, one in November compound, one in Mike compound and none in India and Oscar compounds). -
Commission – General
9 September 2013WebpageSponsorship Opportunities
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14 December 2012Book page
Community arrangements for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons
There are a host of benefits associated with community arrangements for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons. Community arrangements are more closely aligned with international human rights law and standards than models of indefinite closed immigration detention. They also provide for far more humane treatment of people seeking protection. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012SpeechUtilising Indigenous socio-economic data in policy development
Thank you to Jon Altman and Boyd Hunter for the opportunity to speak at this important conference. It has provided an excellent opportunity for researchers, bureaucrats and policy-makers to discuss the adequacy of current collection methods for socio-economic data relating to Indigenous people, how such data might be improved and how it might be better utilised. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2002-2003: Chapter 1
The Commission is a national independent statutory body established under the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986. It has a President and five Commissioners. The five positions are currently held by three persons. Please refer to the organisational chart for further information. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Information concerning Australia and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) (2010)
Recommendation 2: That the proposed Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights be empowered to make recommendations in relation to the implementation of ICERD Committee Concluding Observations. -
25 September 2013Book page
3 Freedom of expression and the Internet
<p>The Internet has opened up new possibilities for the realisation of the right to freedom of expression.</p> -
Commission – General
1 August 2016Webpage
Human Rights Commissioner, Mr Edward Santow
<h3>Mr Edward Santow</h3> <h3>Former Human Rights Commissioner (2016-2021)</h3> <div class="card"> <div class="card-section"> <div class="grid-x grid-padding-x"> <div class="cell medium-shrink"><img alt="Edward Santow" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7f72027a-9e5e-43bc-b231-118fb1a83992" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Edward-Santow_096_Full-Crop_200x300.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" width="200" height="300" loading="lazy"></div> <div class="cell medium-auto"> <p>Edward Santow was Human Rights Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission from August 201</p></div></div></div></div> -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Cyberbullying, Human rights and bystanders
Reach Out is an online community for young people that can help with mental health and wellbeing related issues they also provide opportunities for connecting with young people.  http://au.reachout.com