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Education14 December 2012Publication
RightsED - Young people in the workplace
Young people in the workplace contains a series of activities and resources to help students explore the issues around workplace discrimination. The activities help students to draw comparisons between the dramatised workplace issues and their personal experiences by looking at how concepts of difference, discrimination and harassment may operate in their daily lives. -
Education14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights Explained: Defining Human Rights
Defining human rights: Learn about the principles, legal frameworks, and international instruments that protect human dignity and equality. Explore the basics with this fact sheet. -
Education14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights Explained: Human Rights Philosophies
Explore diverse human rights philosophies, from natural rights to modern critiques, and understand their historical and cultural contexts. Learn more with this fact sheet. -
Education14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights Explained: Australia and Human Rights Treaties
Discover Australia’s commitment to human rights treaties, including key agreements and their integration into domestic law. Learn more with this fact sheet. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012WebpageChart of Australian Treaty Ratifications as of May 2012 - Human rights at your fingertips - Human rights at your fingertips
Human rights at your fingertips Back to Contents 1 Foreword 2 Chart of Australian Treaty Ratifications as of May 2012 3 Chart of related rights and articles in human rights instruments 4 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 6 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 7 International Convention on the Elimination of… -
14 December 2012Book page
Appendices2 - Annual Report 2011-2012: Australian Human Rights Commission
1. Section 32 transfer. 2. Departmental Appropriation combines “Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1)” and “Revenue from independent sources (s31)”. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechSite navigation
Dad's time with their daughters is special time, and I spent the afternoon last weekend watching a chickflick with Rachel. For me, the first five minutes consisted of the sound of waves on a beach, seagullls, the slam of a car door, and someone crying. In fact, the whole movie was a fine demonstration that there is much more to communication than speech. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageSubmission: MIGRATION AMENDMENT (DESIGNATED UNAUTHORISED ARRIVALS) BILL 2006
This Bill represents a backward step in Australia's treatment of asylum seekers. The Commission acknowledges that important improvements have been made in relation to Australia's treatment of asylum seekers. We have witnessed the removal of children from detention centres, the implementation of time limits on processing protection claims, the introduction of independent review of long-term… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012PublicationIndigenous Deaths in Custody:
A Report prepared by the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission -
14 December 2012Book page
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 14 September 2007 (AEST). The Declaration has 46 substantive articles and 24 preambular paragraphs.1 It includes 9 changes to the text of the Declaration as adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2006. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Law and Justice Amendment Bill 2005 – HREOC Submission
Thank you for inviting HREOC to make a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee’s (the Committee) inquiry into the Law and Justice Amendment Bill 2005 (the Bill). -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012PublicationNorfolk Island's Immigration Act and human rights
During 1997-98, in response to four complaints, the Commission conducted an inquiry into Norfolk Island's Immigration Act 1980. Norfolk Island is a territory of the Commonwealth and the only inhabited external territory not covered by the Commonwealth's Migration Act 1958. -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide
It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Statement by Australian Human Rights Commission on the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Australia
This statement is made on behalf of the Australian Human Rights Commission, which is Australia’s ‘A status’ national human rights institution.[1] -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
exemption application: kendell
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has received, by letter dated 28 April 2000, an application for temporary exemption under section 55 of the DDA regarding carriage of passengers with disabilities on low capacity aircraft, for a period of five years. The exemption application is attached, including an action plan and proposed disability awareness policy in support of the… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
GRANT OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION: SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT (no.1)
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 (Cth) SECTION 55(1) By this instrument the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (the "Commission"), pursuant to an application under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (the "Act"), on behalf of the South Australian Minister for Transport, TransAdelaide and the South Australian Passenger Transport Board (the … -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
10th Anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act
I'm sure that I'm not the only person with a disability who has experienced the lonely path of advocacy. As we find it necessary to advocate for our right to be able to read the same information as the rest of society, or to enter a building through the same door, or take a guide dog to the same restaurant, we can also find ourselves agreeing with the next line of the song, "two can be as… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
THE DDA AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE
I am particularly pleased to welcome the Honourable Daryl Williams, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, who has kindly agreed to open our proceedings. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Notice for exemption: Moxamu Pty Ltd trading as Lawrence Bus Service
The Australian Human Rights Commission has received an application from Moxamu Pty Ltd trading as Lawrence Bus Service. Moxamu seeks an exemption under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (Transport Standards). -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Application for temporary exemption: Redline buses
The Commission received an application (attached, RTF format) under clause 31A of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport (DSAPT) from Redline buses, Tasmania in relation to inter-city services operated by them.