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Children's Rights
10 December 2013PublicationChildren's Rights Report 2013
The Report examines the key international human rights treaty on children’s rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and its implementation in Australia. Current statistics are used in the report to show how children are faring in Australia. The Report also refers to the outcomes of the Big Banter national listening tour. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
11 December 2013Project
Social Justice and Native Title Reports
Learn how the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act has meant there is no longer a legal requirement for an annual Social Justice and Native Title Report. -
Children's Rights
11 December 2013Project
Children's Rights Reports
The National Children's Commissioner produces a report every year on the state of children's rights in Australia. -
Disability Rights
11 December 2013SpeechLaunch of Love and Kisses- taking action on the reproductive and sexual health and rights of people with disability
Stella Young is a vivacious journalist, with a love of dinosaurs and Melbourne night life. She edits the ABC's Disability Portal Ramp Up. She uses a wheelchair. Her disability means that she often breaks bones, and her parents took her to hospital when she broke her leg whilst on a family holiday. Stella was about four years old. The doctor - whilst repairing the break - said to her parents "well, while she's under anaesthetic we may as well perform the hysterectomy." Luckily for Stella, her parents refused. -
Race Discrimination
11 December 2013Project
At a glance: Racial vilification under sections 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
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Disability Rights
17 December 2013Opinion piece
Wooden escalators just aren't cricket
My dog goes with me everywhere - on trains buses and planes, into my doctors surgery, and the nice restaurants to which my wife entices me. She's a guide dog mate. But there are two places she does not go- in two of the busiest railway stations in Sydney. The wooden "heritage" escalators at Town Hall and Wynyard. Why doesn't she go there? Because of the risk of injury to her paws in the wide gap ... -
Legal
18 December 2013WebpageAustralasian Railways Association: Carriage and stowage of mobility aids and transfer to and from mobility aids
NOTICE OF DECISION ON APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY EXEMPTION: AUSTRALASIAN RAILWAYS ASSOCIATION: CARRIAGE AND STOWAGE OF MOBILITY AIDS AND TRANSFER TO AND FROM MOBILITY AIDS HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 (Cth), Sections 55(1) and 55(1A) Download in PDF Download in WORD By this instrument, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘HREOC') ... -
Legal
18 December 2013Webpage
Australasian Railways Association: Direct assistance in ascending and descending boarding ramps
NOTICE OF DECISION ON APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY EXEMPTION: AUSTRALASIAN RAILWAYS ASSOCIATION: DIRECT ASSISTANCE IN ASCENDING AND DESCENDING BOARDING RAMPS HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 (Cth), Sections 55(1) and 55(1A) Download in PDF Download in WORD By this instrument, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘HREOC') grants an ... -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
20 December 2013PublicationTell Me About: Temporary Protection Visas
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Rights and Freedoms
20 December 2013PublicationAustralia's Universal Periodic Review 2013
This report is the third in a series of annual reports that are being developed in the lead up to Australia’s second Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in October 2015. Each report identifies important milestones as well as challenges that remain for the protection of human rights in Australia. -
3 January 2014Book page
1 Introduction
This UPR Progress Report operates as a statement of key human rights concerns and developments in Australia in 2013. The report is the third in a series of annual reports that are being developed in the lead up to Australia’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in October 2015. Each report identifies important milestones as well as challenges that ... -
3 January 2014Book page
2 Background and framework for promotion and protection of human rights
2.1 Scope of international obligations During Australia’s review, the Government made a commitment to improving Australia’s monitoring of its international human rights obligations. Australia is a party to seven of the core human rights treaties and maintains a number of reservations under these. The Australian Government made a commitment to conduct a comprehensive review of such reservations by ... -
3 January 2014Book page
3 Key national priorities, initiatives and commitments
The Paris Principles set out the minimum standards required by national human rights institutions to be considered credible and to operate effectively. [94] In order to be effective and granted an ‘A status’, national human rights institutions must be independent, adequately funded and have a broad human rights mandate. ACHRA encourages the new Government to ensure that the Australian Human Rights ... -
3 January 2014Book page
Attachment 1: Calendar of upcoming key UN treaty dates
Treaty Key dates Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) The fifth periodic report was submitted in July 2013 (due in August 2012) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Australia appeared before the committee in September 2013 Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) The report was due October 2012 ... -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
8 January 2014Publication
A last resort? National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This is an important report. It deals with our treatment of children in the most recent wave of boat people seeking refuge and a better life on our shores. It does so in the knowledge that there is a tension created by the community expectation that the Government will defend Australia's security while simultaneously upholding individual rights - the notion of the 'fairgo' for all. The report also challenges the argument that family unity within immigration detention centres is the only way that children's 'best interests' can be protected. -
8 January 2014Book page
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation Term AAIMH Australian Association for Infant Mental Health ACM Australasian Correctional Management Pty Limited AFP Australian Federal Police Beijing Rules United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice Body of Principles United Nations Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment BVE Bridging Visa E ... -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
8 January 2014Publication
An age of uncertainty - Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children
This report makes disturbing reading. It documents numerous breaches by Australia of both the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As a nation that is understandably anxious that the rights of our own children should be respected when they come into contact with the authorities of other countries, it is troubling that between late 2008 and late 2011 Australian authorities apparently gave little weight to the rights of this cohort of young Indonesians. -
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. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
10 January 2014Webpage
Asylum seekers and refugees guide
Learn everything about refugee and asylum seeker issues, such as immigration detention, legal rights, protection visas and enhanced screening. -
Commission – General
22 January 2014PublicationAHRC Agency Multicultural Plan 2013-15
Multicultural access and equity policy: Respecting diversity. Improving responsiveness.