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Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechPresident speech: The role of culture and human rights in promoting human development
[1] According to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) – or living heritage – is the mainspring of our cultural diversity and its maintenance a guarantee for continuing creativity. It is defined as follows: Intangible Cultural Heritage means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
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Thank you Professor Lansbury, and thank you to Marian and the Women and Work Research Group for organising today’s forum. Thank you also to our panellists – Dr Lyn Craig, Petra Stirling, and John Murray. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageFree to air television captioning exemption decision (2012)
By this instrument, the Australian Human Rights Commission grants to the Applicants an exemption pursuant to section 55(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (DDA). -
11 April 2013Project
CERD
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1966 (CERD) (the Convention) was one of the first human rights treaties to be adopted by the United Nations. More than 156 countries (four-fifths of the membership of the UN) have ratified the Convention; including Australia, which ratified the Convention on 30 September 1975. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
31 January 2014WebpageInformation about children in immigration detention
Learn about the impact of mandatory immigration detention on children in regard to Australia's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2000: Chapter 4: Achieving meaningful reconciliation
This report identifies the necessity to adopt a human rights approach to reconciliation, as well as shortcomings in Australia's performance on human rights issues as they relate to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. This chapter emphasises processes and mechanisms that enable reconciliation to be implemented within a human rights framework. It identifies crucial commitments and processes… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Intervention in court proceedings - The Australian Human Rights Commission Guidelines
The Australian Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) has a function to intervene, with a Court’s leave, in proceedings involving issues of discrimination or human rights (otherwise known as ‘intervention issues’). -
14 December 2012Book page
Preventing Crime and Promoting Rights for Indigenous Young People with Cognitive Disabilities and Mental Health Issues Part 4
Indigenous young people with cognitive disabilities and/ or mental health issues in contact with the juvenile justice system get very little attention in literature, in policy and arguably in practice as well. We have seen that this is a forgotten group of young people who are frequently labelled as ‘complex’ (code for too hard to work with) and often receive inadequate or… -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is a network of Australian lawyers interested in furthering awareness and advocacy of human rights in Australia. ALHR promotes the practice of human rights law in Australia and works with Australian and international human rights organisations to achieve this aim. -
Legal
14 December 2012Speech
Dignity, Fairness and Good Government: The Role of a Human Rights Act - Lord Bingham
It would clearly test to destruction the tolerance of the ordinary red-blooded Australian to have a Pom getting off the plane from London and telling them how to run their country. So I shall not presume to say how the current human rights debate in this country should be resolved. But perhaps I may contribute some thoughts, prompted by our own experience in the United Kingdom, acknowledging as I… -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech"The local face of global justice policy": Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2004)
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand and by so doing remind ourselves that Australia's cultural traditions stretch back many thousands of years and express our aspirations for Australians of the future to be socially just and inclusive. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
“The Relevance of Human Rights in Contemporary Australia”: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2003)
1. Introduction 2. Emergence of International Human Rights 3. Impact of international human rights law on federal law 4. Moving forward on human rights protection -
Children's Rights
30 June 2014SpeechQCEC Student Protection In-Service Day for Catholic School Authorities
It is a real pleasure to be here in Brisbane and to speak to so many people who are all committed to the protection of children and young people across Australia. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
HREOC Submission: Productivity Commission on the Inquiry into Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) makes this submission to the Productivity Commission in its Inquiry into Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave (‘the Inquiry’). -
14 December 2012Book page
DIAC Response to the 2011 Australian Human Rights Commission Statement on Immigration Detention in Leonora (2011)
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Public Statement on Immigration Detention in Leonora. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This submission will consider the issue of ‘statelessness’ and its consequences for the nationality of children in detention [2], focussing specifically on those children who are born into immigration detention in Australia. It will address the first term of reference [3] for the Inquiry. The submission will first consider the right to nationality at international law and the problem… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the National Security Legislation Monitor Bill 2009
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee (the Committee) in its Inquiry into National Security Legislation Monitor Bill 2009 (the Bill). -
14 December 2012Book page
HRC Report No.11
This is a report to the Attorney-General on inquiries made by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission into a complaint made under the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (the Act) of discrimination in employment on the ground of age. The complaint was made by Ms Akiko Ishikuni against the Japan Travel Bureau (Australia) (JTB). -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
"HUMAN RIGHTS: A REPORT CARD FOR AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA": DR SEV OZDOWSKI OAM (2004)
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand and by so doing remind ourselves that Australia's cultural traditions stretch back many thousands of years. The acknowledgement also expresses our aspiration for a just and inclusive Australia for all. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2007: Chapter 4
One part of the funding is the ‘respondent funding scheme’ operated by the Attorney-General’s Department. Under this scheme the Attorney-General can grant legal or financial assistance to certain non-claimant parties to enable them to participate in native title proceedings.1