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'Help Way Earlier!'- transforming child justice for safety & wellbeing

Report artwork copyright Bernard Singleton and Saltwater People 2024. 'Help way earlier!’ How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing investigates opportunities for reform of child justice and related systems across Australia based on children’s rights and sound...

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ADR as a tool for social change: a discussion (2008)

Human rights and anti-discrimination law in Australia, as in many countries in the Asia Pacific, provides for complaints about discrimination and violations of human rights to be resolved by conciliation. The use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in this context has been criticised. In...
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Understanding human rights - rightsED

Resource: Understanding human rights Human rights are basic to humanity. They apply to all people everywhere. An understanding of human rights is an important part of our individual status as human beings and of our collective status as members of the global community of humankind. To understand how...
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Commemorate Human Rights Day - rightsED

Resource: Commemorate Human Rights Day Download complete resource in PDF (740 KB) Download complete resource in Word (340 KB) Resource information Subjects: Civics and Citizenship, Society and Environment (all), Design and Technology, English, Legal Studies, International Studies Level: Year 9 and...
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Human rights education in the national school Curriculum

Human rights education in the national school Curriculum: Position Paper of the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ 2 June 2011 Download in Word [366KB] Download in PDF [199KB] Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Background to the national school curriculum 2.1 Who is writing the Curriculum? 2.2 What...
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Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZQRB [2013] FCAFC 33

Summary: The Full Court of the Federal Court restrained the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship from removing the applicant asylum seeker to Afghanistan until his claims for protection have been assessed according to law. The Court held that the International Treaties Obligations Assessment was...
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Asylum seekers and refugees

back to Immigration detention, Asylum Seekers and Refugees Who are asylum seekers and refugees? What are Australia’s human rights obligations towards asylum seekers and refugees? Are asylum seekers and refugees subject to immigration detention in Australia? What does the Commission do to monitor...

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