Rights and freedoms: web links
Links from bayefsky.com
is an extensive collection of resources maintained by leading human rights academic Anne Bayefsky and colleagues. In many cases it provides easier access than the official UN document versions.
The site includes
- an to the human rights treaty system;
- the and ;
- pages for each;
- pages organised by of document;
- pages by ;
- information on including forms;
- and ; and
- a which provides extensive links to , , and further
Country page for Australia
The includes links to
Australian Government
Attorney-General's Department
- : a guide to human rights for Australian public servants
- Report
- page
- page
- page
- page: includes links to consideration of recent reports by Australia
- : information on complaint procedures under human rights treaties including current and past complaints involving Australia
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- : includes information on treaty reporting and regional engagement as well as activities of the Australian missions to the UN in New York and Geneva
Parliamentary Library
United Nations
See also our pages on and
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- including links and information on , extensive and
- including observations by treaty bodies and reports by Special Rapporteurs
United Nations Human Rights Council
Human rights based approaches
Human rights treaty bodies
Committee Against Torture
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Human Rights Committee
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- : Includes links to (PDF); handbook for parliamentarians; guidance for human rights monitors
Other United Nations human rights links
National Human Rights Institutions
Australia
- ite includes and , and by the ACT Human Rights Commissioner
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Site includes and on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
International
- including Paris Principles on NHRIs
- Definition, jurisdiction and powers of national institutions : Paper by 黑料情报站er, Paris, October 1991
Non-government organisation links
See also our pages on more specific issues including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social Justice; age discrimination; children's rights; disability rights; race discrimination; sex discrimination; and sexuality, sex and gender identity for more links in these areas
Human rights - general
- (UNSW)
- (Monash University)
- including and
Councils for civil liberties
Former Human Rights Commission (1981 - 86)
- Annual Reports for the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights for Australia: survey and bibliography from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Reports, discussion papers and occasional papers from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
- Community Relations Papers from the former Community Relations Commissioner
- Education resources from the former 1981-86 Human Rights Commission
Other resources
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