Publications

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Summary factsheet - The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 Summary factsheet July 2015 What was the Inquiry about? On 3 February 2014 the President of the Commission announced a national inquiry into children in immigration detention. The purpose of the Inquiry was to...

Race Discrimination

National Anti-racism Strategy Evaluation 2015

The National Anti-Racism Strategy was developed to help people to understand what racism is and why it is a problem. And it was about empowering people to prevent racism from happening and to reduce it in their communities. Almost three years on from its launch in August 2012, we can report on the...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by health professional organisations

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by the United Nations

Learn how the United Nations states that children do not belong in immigration detention and that under international law, states should not detain them.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Tell Me About: Children in immigration detention in Nauru

On 13 August 2012 the Australian Government reintroduced a system of third country processing for asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a valid visa. Under this system these asylum seekers, including children, must be transferred to a third country as soon as is reasonably practicable, unless...

Disability Rights

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against Australians with disability

This Paper is one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing persons with disability, while the other focuses on issues facing older Australians. Each...

Age Discrimination

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against older Australians

This Paper is the one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing older Australians, while the other focuses on issues facing persons with disability. Each...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Know your rights: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders (2014)

This brochure explains what racial discrimination is and what you can do it you experience it, as well as the work of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

LGBTIQ+

Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Intersex Rights 2015

Message from the Commissioner The role of the Human Rights Commissioner is to raise systemic public policy issues that impact on human rights, and seek reform. The Commission has in its legislation commissioners responsible for age, disability, race and sex discrimination. There are also...

Children's Rights

Children’s Commissioners and Guardians Communique 20–21 May 2015

The ACCG meets twice each year, and aims to promote and protect the safety, well-being and rights of children and young people in Australia, and ensure that the best interests of children and young people are considered in public policy and program development across Australia.

Rights and Freedoms

War and Peace: The ANZAC spirit and human rights

Learn about the intersection of war, peace, the ANZAC spirit, and human rights, highlighting historical and contemporary perspectives.

Age Discrimination

National prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace 2015

Foreword The longevity revolution is underway, inexorably. The number of Australians aged 65 and over is projected to more than double by 2055, when there will be around 40,000 people aged 100 and over. Life expectancy continues to increase. In 2055, men can expect to live on average to 95.1 and...

Disability Rights

Info and Communications Technology in the A.P.S – the need for change

The low rate of employment of people with disability in the Australian Public Service (APS) is unsatisfactory in terms of the government’s broader objectives, and from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s perspective in terms of the right to work of people with disability. The Australian Human...