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Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechNational Disability Strategies as tools for implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Summary: Australia’s National Disability Strategy provides a framework for implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons and for means for enhancing reporting under the Convention. Further development and implementation of the NDS should be informed by the Committee’s reporting guidelines and by the dialogue between the Australian Government and the Committee in considering Australia… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
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DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AND DISCLOSURE IN RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYMENT Cristina Ricci Australian Human Rights Commission Presented at the HSA Group Professional Conference Coogee, 12 September 2008 Introduction I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and pay my respects to their elders both past and present. I would also like to thank the… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Disability Rights: Human rights and mental illness
This page provides links to materials related to and following from the Australian Human Rights Commission's National Inquiry on the Human Rights of People with a Mental Illness, which reported in 1993, and more activity including recent consultations conducted in conjunction with the Mental Health Council of Australia and the Brain and Mind Research Institute. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Disability complaint outcomes
Explore a range of Commission and Federal Court decisions, conciliated settlements and decline decisions in relation to disability complaint outcomes. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Conciliated DDA complaints
A substantial proportion of complaints under the DDA are resolved by the parties deciding to settle the matter by conciliation, with the assistance of the Commission but without the Commission or the courts having to formally decide that unlawful discrimination has occurred or what the remedy should be. Thousands of complaints have been conciliated under the DDA. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Commission Determinations, DDA decisions
Prior to changes made by the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act 1999 which took effect in April 2000, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted hearings and made determinations on Disability Discrimination Act complaints referred to it by the Disability Discrimination Commissioner or delegate. Complaints were referred to the Commission because the complaint could not be settled by…