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Successfully balancing paid work with family responsibilities remains a major challenge for a large number of Australians. With women continuing to carry the majority of Australia’s unpaid caring work, creating workplaces that support women and men to balance paid work and share caring responsibilities is critical to achieving gender equality.

As Kathleen pointed out this morning this conference attempts to reflect the trafficking trail, to view the process from the perspective of the women involved. I am indebted to her for her clear discussion of the bravery and strong agency of trafficked women. In a context where it is very difficult for trafficked women to speak for themselves, because of the nature of trafficking and their own experiences, it is very important for us continually to carry with us in all our work a central recognition of the lives and circumstances of the women concerned.

The Stop the Traffic 2 Conference is being presented by Project Respect in association with RMIT University School of Social Science and Planning and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and is sponsored by the City of Yarra and VicHealth.

There is no separate international human rights agreement that deals specifically with sexual orientation or gender identity. However, all people have the same human rights regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Stop the Traffic 2 (2003) Fact Sheets The following Fact Sheets have been prepared to provide background information: Fact Sheet: Trafficking in Women and Children Fact Sheet: International and Australian Law Fact Sheet: Trafficking Quotes For additional backgroun information see the Links to other useful information resources page. ...

Back to Table of Contents Abbreviations ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics ACIRRT - Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions ADAM - Agreements Database and Monitor AIFS - Australian Institute of Family Studies AIRC - Australian Industrial Relations Commission ALSS - Australian Living Standards Study AMA - Australian Medical ...

In 1999, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's (HREOC) Report of the National Pregnancy and Work Inquiry, Pregnant and Productive, recognised the importance of paid maternity leave to Australian women and recommended that the Federal Government commission economic modelling to assess the viability and consequences of such a scheme. This interim options paper has been developed in order to consult, inform the debate and examine the options for paid maternity leave in Australia. The economic modelling to support this debate has not yet been done.

Sex discrimination remains a harsh reality for many Australian women, who continue to experience unfair treatment in the workplace and other spheres of life, with complaints on the grounds of SDA rising in recent years:

It has been a long journey from the male breadwinner family of the 1907 Harvester judgment to the modern families of today. The transformation of families has been one of the most significant social changes since the Second World War and arguably over the entire century. Landmark decisions by governments and industrial tribunals have endorsed and encouraged social changes along the way.

The Commission recognises that terminology can have a profound impact on a person’s identity, self-worth and inherent dignity. The use of inclusive and acceptable terminology empowers individuals and enables visibility of important issues.

2.1 A two stage decision-making process There are two stages of the decision-making process under section 501. At the first stage, the Minister or the delegate must consider whether the person passes the character test (referred to as the ‘threshold test for refusal or cancellation’ in the sections below). The character test is set out in subsection 501(6), and is discussed in section 2.3 below ...