Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for LOIPR - Australia, 27 June 2016
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 3
2.
National Human Rights Institution .................................................................. 3
3.
Ratification of OPCAT ....................................................................................... 4
4.
Scrutiny of human rights and role of the Parliamentary Joint Committee
on Human Rights ............................................................................................... 4
5.
Violence against women and children ............................................................ 5
6.
Trafficking in persons ....................................................................................... 7
7.
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
8.
Criminal Justice System ................................................................................... 8
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples ........................................... 8
Juvenile justice .............................................................................................. 9
Deprivation of liberty - People with disability .......................................... 10
Deprivation of liberty – overcrowding ....................................................... 11
Use of conducted energy weapons - Tasers ............................................ 11
Counter-terrorism legislation ......................................................................... 12
9.
9.1
9.2
9.3
Immigration detention and asylum seeker policy ....................................... 13
Non-refoulement .......................................................................................... 13
Mandatory immigration detention, including of children ....................... 14
Offshore processing of asylum claims ..................................................... 16
10.
Rights of the Child ........................................................................................... 17
10.1 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
........................................................................................................................ 17
11.
Sterilization of persons with disabilities ...................................................... 17
12.
Other issues ..................................................................................................... 18
12.1 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex issues (SOGII) ......... 18
12.2 Older persons – elder abuse ...................................................................... 18
Attachment 1: Compilation of issues for consideration in the LOIPR ................ 20
Endnotes ...................................................................................................................... 24
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