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Learn about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966), one of the first human rights treaties to be adopted by the UN.

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 discrimination is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person without the disability in the same or similar circumstances.

<p><span style="line-height: 1.53em;">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 <a href="node/710">reports</a> page.</span></p>

<h3>Brough v Australia (2006)</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/HumanRights/DisabilityStandards/Documents/BroughvAustralia-Viewsof10082006.doc">Views of Committee in Word </a> and <a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/HumanRights/DisabilityStandards/Documents/BroughvAustralia-Viewsof10082006.pdf">PDF</a></li></ul>

<ul> <li><a href="node/8611">Examination of the Migration (Regional Processing) package of legislation </a>- January 2013<br>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</li> <li><a href="node/8718">Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012 </a>- December 2012<br>Human rights discussed: ICCPR Articles 6, 7, 9, 10, 17, 23, 26 ; CAT Article 3; CRC Articles 3, 10, 20, 22, 37(b)</li></ul>

<p>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. </p>

<ul> <li><a href="/node/8761">Back to RightsTalk</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Katie Williams</strong> - 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.</p> <p><strong>Brendan Keogh</strong> - videogame critic and PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne. Brendan has written for Edge, Hyper, The New Statesman, The Conversation, and Polygon.</p>

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

See how some human rights are recognised as absolute rights that can't be limited, including freedom from torture, slavery and retrospective criminal laws.

<p><em><a href="/node/8706">Back to rights and freedoms: right by right</a></em></p> <p><span alt="hr15.jpg" title="hr15.jpg" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"","image_link":""}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9374aef4-f2a4-4acb-9ee9-39f4d9ff5cfa" data-langcode="und" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/hr15.jpg" alt="hr15.jpg" title="hr15.jpg"> </span> </p> <p>ICCPR Article 24 states:</p>