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Learn how the Human Rights Commission works to eliminate all forms of sex discrimination against women around the world.

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.

Para 29: The Committee encourages the State party to continue its efforts to tackle the persistent problem of violence against women and urges the State party to adopt national legislation and adopt, implement and adequately fund as a matter of urgency the National Action Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children, including a mechanism for independent monitoring.

<ul> <li><a href="/sex_discrimination/international/index.html">back to Sex Discrimination - international activities</a></li> </ul> <h2>UN Mechanisms for Protecting Women’s Human Rights</h2> <p><a href="#UN_women">UN Women</a></p> <p><a href="#Beijing Platform">The Beijing Platform for Action</a></p> <p><a href="#csw">Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)</a></p> <p><a href="#Periodic Review">The United Nation’s Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights</a></p> <p><a href="#Violence against women">UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences</a></p>

(1) Support a two-stage inquiry process for the SDA, with some amendments made now to the existing law (Recommendations), and the rest completed within three (3) years (Options for Reform)

(1) Support a two-stage inquiry process for the SDA, with some amendments made now to the existing law (Recommendations), and the rest completed within three (3) years (Options for Reform)

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) applied on 29 July 2002 to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for temporary exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 ("SDA"), section 44, and the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA"), section 55, for persons acting pursuant to existing Civil Aviation Regulations regarding medical fitness and proposed amendments to those regulations.

<h2>Submissions to the Parliaments and law reform bodies</h2> <h2>Date Index</h2> <p>On the instructions of the Commission, another function of the Legal Section is to prepare submissions to the Commonwealth Parliament.</p> <p>See below for some of the submissions prepared by the Legal Section and other units in the commission:</p> <p>See also Submissions</p>

The definitions of discrimination include both direct and indirect discrimination, with the exception of the definition of discrimination on the ground of family responsibilities, which is limited to direct discrimination.

This submission is made by the Australian Human Rights Commission, Australia’s national human rights institution. It outlines a number of issues that the Commission suggests should be considered by the Human Rights Committee as it develops a List of Issues Prior to Reporting ahead of Australia’s preparation of its sixth periodic report regarding the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

1.1 SHORT TITLE 1.2 PURPOSE 1.3 INTERPRETATION 1.4 DEFINITION 1.5 SCOPE 1.6 THE SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 The objects of the Sex Discrimination Act Grounds of discrimination Areas where discrimination is unlawful Discrimination and equality

The July 2007 supplement to Federal Discrimination Law 2005 covers significant cases decided in the federal unlawful discrimination jurisdiction since March 2005.