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Education14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights Explained: Case Studies
Explore case studies of complaints against Australia to the Human Rights Committee, highlighting key human rights issues and outcomes. Learn more with this fact sheet. -
Education14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights Explained fact sheets
Explore essential fact sheets on human rights law, origins, philosophies, and treaties. Learn how human rights are promoted and protected globally. -
Rights and Freedoms
1 May 2013WebpageDerogation from rights in emergencies
Learn how the government may take measures that impact human rights in a national emergency, though not related to race, sex, religion or social origin. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Project
Human Rights Briefs (1999 - 2001)
The Human Rights Brief provides legal practitioners, community advocates and others with guidance on the content and scope of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Australia and their use in Australian law. Each number will cover a specific topic. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageNational Human Rights Consultation - Appendix 5
The Commission conducted a series of national workshops in each state and territory to support community sector engagement in the Consultation. The workshops included general community sector organisation workshops as well as some sector-specific workshops and briefing sessions with refugee groups, disability groups and Indigenous groups. The Commission also conducted workshops aimed at community… -
14 December 2012Book page
Immigration detention and human rights
back to immigration detention, asylum seekers and refugees The human rights of people who are in immigration detention are of particular concern to the Commission. Liberty is a fundamental human right, recognised in major human rights instruments to which Australia is a party, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012WebpageCyberbullying, Human rights and bystanders
Cyberbullying can be detrimental to a person’s mental and physical health.[11] Victims can experience significant social isolation and feel unsafe.[12] It can lead to emotional and physical harm,[13] loss of self-esteem, feelings of shame and anxiety, concentration and learning difficulties. Incidents of young people committing suicide have also occurred.[14] -
Education14 December 2012Publication
Commemorate Human Rights Day - rightsED
December 10 is the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations (UN) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR sets out a certain set of rights that are the basic and minimum set of human rights for all citizens. -
Disability Rights
8 April 2013PublicationKnow your rights: Disability discrimination
Disability discrimination is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person without the disability in the same or similar circumstances. -
3 September 2020Redacted submissions
Redacted : Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights
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Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Publication
Human Rights and Mental Illness
The Report of the National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness was tabled in Parliament and publicly released on 20 October, 1993. Over a three year period the Inquiry received nearly 900 written submissions, heard from over 450 witnesses at formal hearings and consulted with approximately 300 people at forums and informal meetings. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Human Rights of Older Australians
In February 2003 the Commission provided its response to the Commonwealth Government's Information Paper containing its proposals for new Commonwealth age discrimination legislation. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Publication
Human Rights: On the record
Over recent years, the Commission has received a significant number of complaints from people alleging discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal record. The complaints indicate that there is a great deal of misunderstanding by employers and people with criminal records about discrimination on the basis of criminal record. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Disability Rights: Commission Submission 2008
The Australian Human Rights and Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in its Inquiry into the Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (the Bill). -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Housing, human rights and sustainability
Thank you especially to Margaret Ward, the previous National Convenor of the network and Amelia Starr the current Convenor for the excellent debate you have nurtured over the past few years between Government, the housing industry and the community. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
Police Checks - A Human Rights perspective
Acknowledgments I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I'd also like to thank the Aged and Community Services Association for inviting me to speak about police checks today. Introduction I suspect the average person in the street associates police checks with high-security jobs, such as airport security, or, on the other hand, with jobs working closely with children… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
Disability Rights: disability legal services
Australian Centre for Disability Law General e mail info@disabilitylaw.org.au Legal advice: adviceline@disabilitylaw.org.au Web http://www.disabilitylaw.org.au Postal: PO 989 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Tel 02 8014 7000 Fax 02 9211 5518 TTY 02 9211 5549 -
14 December 2012Book page
Human Rights 21: Looking ahead
Over the past 21 years HREOC has helped to highlight, investigate and respond to a wide range of complex human rights issues in Australia. During this time there have been many positive changes. It is clear, however, that gaping holes still exist. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Human rights at your fingertips
Discover the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognises the inherent dignity and equal rights of all humanity. -
14 December 2012Book page
Human Rights 21: HREOC’s leaders
The Hon. John von Doussa: 2003 – present Professor Alice Tay, 1998 – 2003 Sir Ronald Wilson: 1990 – 1998 The Hon. Justice Marcus Einfeld: 1986 – 1990