Publications

Disability Rights

The rights of people in health and disability care during COVID-19

These Guidelines are designed to ensure that human rights considerations inform the decisions made by health care and disability workers when supporting people with disability.

Business and Human Rights

Property, Construction and Modern Slavery (2020)

A guide to help the property and construction industry respond effectively to the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth).

Disability Rights

Access under Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport

These Guidelines have been developed by the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) to provide clear and practical assistance to facilitate compliance with the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (Cth) (the Transport Standards) through the use of equivalent access.

Rights and Freedoms

Freedom of Religion in Australia: a focus on serious harms (2020)

The right to freedom of religion is recognised in international human rights law and receives some protection in Australia’s federal, state and territory laws.

Rights and Freedoms

Implementing OPCAT in Australia (2020)

The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) aims to improve how people’s human rights are protected when they are detained.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Close the Gap (2020)

We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us. A report prepared by the Lowitja Institute for the Close the Gap Steering Committee | March 2020 Executive Summary With this report — We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us — we have sought to reflect the...

Sex Discrimination

Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020)

Workplace sexual harassment is prevalent and pervasive: it occurs in every industry, in every location and at every level, in Australian workplaces.

Children's Rights

Children’s Rights Report 2019

The Children’s Rights Report 2019 — In Their Own Right tells the story of how well children’s rights are protected and promoted across Australia.

Technology and Human Rights

Discussion Paper: Human Rights and Technology

Learn more about protecting and promoting human rights from the risks of AI, to better develop and deploy ethical AI.

Children's Rights

Children’s Rights in Australia: a scorecard

This scorecard tells the story of how well children’s rights are protected and promoted across Australia. It tells us where we are doing ok, where we should be doing much better, and where we do not yet know enough to make an assessment of our performance.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Use of force in immigration detention

The issue of the use of force in immigration detention has been raised in a range of complaints against the Department of Home Affairs received by the Commission. This report deals thematically with 14 complaints.