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Legal10 October 2017Submission
Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2017)
This submission provides information concerning the civil and political rights of key population groups in Australia and other thematic issues engaging civil and political rights. In relation to each section, the Commission has referred to the relevant articles of the ICCPR engaged and (where appropriate) the relevant paragraph of the Committee’s list of issues prior to reporting dated 9 November 2012. -
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BA v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP) (2017)
[2017] AusHRC 111 -
Legal29 November 2017Publication
CR and CS v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP) (2017)
[2017] AusHRC 116 -
Legal21 June 2017Publication
AX v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP) (2017)
[2017] AusHRC 112 -
Legal29 November 2017Publication
MB v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP) (2017)
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14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was chaired by Professor Jerzy Smolicz, Centre for Intercultural Studies and Multicultural Education at the University of Adelaide. The South Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Ms Linda Matthews, was co-host and guest speaker. It was attended by 32 invited participants. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was chaired by Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt, Commissioner, together with Ms Santi Mariso, Community Education and Liaison Officer and Mrs Pia Struwe, Investigation and Conciliation Officer with the Anti-Discrimination Commission, and with Mr Stuart Beswick of Multicultural Tasmania. It was attended by some 24 invited participants, two of whom were children (10/13). The Commissioner gave a short introduction. Then everyone introduced her/himself and said a few words about where they had come from and their interests. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was chaired by Dr Diane Sisely, CEO of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission, and facilitated by Dr William Jonas, Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner, and Ms Omeima Sukkarieh, Community Liaison Officer, from HREOC. It was attended by 21 invited participants. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was attended and facilitated by Susanna Iuliano (notes) and Omeima Sukkarieh from HREOC and by 9 invited participants from the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV). -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
Eight members of the refugee women’s group and two EMC workers attended the consultation which was facilitated by Omeima Sukkarieh (transcript and translating) and Susanna Iuliano from HREOC. The Ecumenical Migration Centre was established in 1962 and became a part of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 1999. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National
consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim AustraliasThe meeting was attended by Susanna Iuliano and Omeima Sukkarieh from HREOC and by 7 invited participants from the Muslim Lawyers’ Group. The group is an informal social network (formed in late 2002) of Muslim lawyers practising in Melbourne. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
“In the month after September 11 we had a 20-fold rise in reports of incidents of racial vilification. So it peaked very much. September 11th came as a shock and people were extremely scared. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
“I have had many experiences of discrimination like many of our community, and probably because of our appearance. What they do is for e.g. I was standing beside the road and was given the finger. Or when I enter the store, some people look at me like a stranger and make me feel uncomfortable, and some even say ‘terrorist’.” -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was organised by Ms Karen Goltz, Regional Health Promotion Public Health and Strategic Development Western Metropolitan Region, Department of Human Services and, and facilitated by Omeima Sukkarieh (notes) and Susanna Iuliano from HREOC. It was attended by seven invited participants. Omeima interpreted the Arabic. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The meeting was facilitated by Omeima Sukkarieh (who also translated from Arabic to English) and Susanna Iuliano from HREOC. It was attended by 21 invited participants, all Iraqi women living in Shepparton who attend English classes at the Goulburn-Ovens TAFE. The consultation was held during regular class-time and two TAFE English teachers attended as observers. -
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
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National
consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim AustraliasThe meeting was convened by Omeima Sukkarieh, Community Liaison Officer, and Susanna Iuliano, Policy Research Officer, from HREOC. It was attended by 12 participants from the local Iraqi community, including the local Imam. Participants were Iraqi refugee men, the majority on Temporary Protection Visas. As the community is small, consultation participants requested that the name of their town not be referred to in this notes. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
The consultation was organised by the Islamic Women's Welfare Centre as part of its research into racial violence against Muslim women living in Victoria. It was facilitated by Ms Joumanah El Matrah, Manager of the Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria, and attended by Ms Omeima Sukkarieh, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Amna Malkin acted as group leader and interpreter. The consultation was attended by 11 members of the program all of whom were Eritrean Muslim refugee women over the age of 60 who have been in Australia between two and13 years. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
Some participants had not experienced discrimination themselves. One woman mentioned that she had experienced significant prejudice but did not give details. However, she related the following experience of her son. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
Isma was introduced to the Network by a former member, Father Lindsay Fawlkner, now living in Alice Springs who told us at the consultation there on 5 June 2003: