Publications

Children's Rights

Children’s Commissioners and Guardians Communique 11 November 2014

The purpose of the ACCG is to strengthen the quality and effectiveness of strategic advocacy to promote and protect the safety, wellbeing and rights of children in Australia, particularly the most vulnerable or disadvantaged.

Children's Rights

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2014)

Foreword Australia currently holds about 800 children in mandatory closed immigration detention for indefinite periods, with no pathway to protection or settlement. This includes 186 children detained on Nauru. Children and their families have been held on the mainland and on Christmas Island for...

Children's Rights

What does the Children’s Rights Report 2013 say?

This report looks at the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the Big Banter national listening tour. This version is for children and young people.

Children's Rights

Children'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...

Children's Rights

Cyberbullying and the Bystander

In May 2011, the Child Health Promotion Research Centre (CHPRC), in partnership with Primary Communication, were commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct a study to identify the most effective strategy, messages, content and technology to be used to undertake a social...

Children's Rights

Our Homeless Children

Report of the National Inquiry into Youth Homelessness In 1987, after consulting with a wide range of individuals and organisations attempting to assist homeless children, analysing current policy directions and surveying the available literature, the Commission decided that there was a clear need...

Children's Rights

Our Homeless Children: Their Experiences

Report by Dr Ian O'Connor to the National Inquiry into Homeless Children by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission