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Submission of the HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts on the Inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment 18 April 2008 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Level 8, 133 Castlereagh St GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 Ph. (02) 9284 9600 Table of Contents A…

“8.1   The juvenile’s right to privacy shall be respected at all stages in order to avoid harm being caused to her or him by undue publicity or by the process of labelling. 8.2   In principle, no information that may lead to the identification of a juvenile offender shall be published.”

[2] Relevantly, s 24 (3) provides that:  ‘Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, a person is not excused: (a) from giving any information, or producing a document, when required to do so pursuant to this Act; or (b) from answering a question that the person is required to answer by a member before whom the person is attending in compliance with a notice served on the person under…

This submission is made by the Human Rights Commissioner on behalf of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘the Commission’) in response to the Terms of Reference issued by the Select Committee on Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters.

This version was been updated to 31 March 2010 and takes account of recent decisions and changes made by the Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act 2009 (Cth). It is available here in Word and PDF versions.

Federal Discrimination Law Online 2008-2009 (Archive) Please see the most recent Federal Discrimination Law Online. Welcome to FDL Online, the online version of Federal Discrimination Law. Register for the Commission mailing list. Last updated: 1 May 2009. Previous updates: 12 January 2009 26 September 2008 Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The Age…

Access the archive of Federal Discrimination Law 2004.

Access older versions of federal discrimination law archives.

Regulation 176 requires practitioners to complete at least one MCLE unit every 3 years relating to the management of the practice of law dealing predominantly with the principles of equal opportunity, the law relating to the discrimination and harassment, occupational health and safety law and employment law.

Download in PDF Download in Word Table Of Contents Homelessness in Australia Homelessness and human rights Why are violence, harassment and bullying human rights issues? Protection from violence, harassment and bullying is a stand-alone human right Violence, harassment and bullying as a cause of homelessness Violence, harassment and bullying against people experiencing homelessness Hidden,…

Australia has a proud history of supporting human rights. Australia played a key role in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more than sixty years ago. Since then, Australia has been a leading voice for the implementation of human rights across the globe.

Chart of Australian treaty ratifications as of May 2012.

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Learn about the principles of human rights, which include the right to self-determination and the right to political, economic and social development.

Discover the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognises the inherent dignity and equal rights of all humanity.

Work continues on the development of comprehensive recommendations for the implementation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). Over the past three months we have been considering all the issues, some of them quite complex, relating to an orderly transition to WCAG 2.0, and receiving a range of views from government, industry, and the web development community (including web…

Submissions on Temporary exemption application under DDA section 55: Broadcast television captioning see also: notice of application . Submissions requested by 9 May 2003 to disabdis@humanrights.gov.au . Deafness Council Western Australia Australian Association of the Deaf Deafness Forum of Australia M.Wren S.Swann (MS Word doc) M.Fay A.Selby Smith J.Clark A.Porter A.Lill P.Abernethy People…

Information concerning Australia and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Submission by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Click on the links below to also access: Information Note Australian NGO submission for the 13 th and 14 th session of the Committee Concluding observations of the Committee on AUSTRALIA…

Information Note - the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the periodic reporting process Australia is a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). The Convention has been ratified by 170 nations (only the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of…

Welcome to Conference. Thank you for warm welcome, Marjie Cook, and for the opportunity to gather on your land over the next two days to consider the critical issues of identity and justice for the Stolen Generations.