Australian Human Rights Commission
Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 8 May 2017
Table of Contents
1
Introduction .................................................................................................................. 3
2
General information ..................................................................................................... 3
2.1
2.2
Scrutiny of human rights and the role of the Parliamentary Joint
Committee on Human Rights ....................................................................... 3
National Human Rights Institution .............................................................. 4
3
Treaty Ratification ........................................................................................................ 4
4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ......................................................... 4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
5
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative body ...... 5
Closing the gap .............................................................................................. 5
Income management and poverty ............................................................... 5
Cultural Rights (native title) .......................................................................... 6
People with Disabilities ............................................................................................... 6
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
6
National Disability Strategy (NDS) ............................................................... 6
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) ............................................ 7
Employment of people with disabilities ...................................................... 7
Prisoners and mental health ........................................................................ 8
Women........................................................................................................................... 8
6.1
6.2
7
Women and Work ........................................................................................... 8
Violence against women and children ........................................................ 8
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Issues (SOGII) .......................... 9
7.1
7.2
7.3
8
Non-discrimination ........................................................................................ 9
Intersex ............................................................................................................ 9
Gender identity ............................................................................................. 10
Older persons ............................................................................................................. 10
8.1
8.2
9
Elder abuse ................................................................................................... 10
Employment .................................................................................................. 11
Rights of the child ...................................................................................................... 11
10
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
Refugees and Asylum Seekers ................................................................................ 11
Mandatory immigration detention, including of children ....................... 11
Asylum seekers living in the communit .................................................... 12
Third country processing of asylum claims ............................................. 12
Temporary protection and family reunion ................................................ 13
11
Trafficking ................................................................................................................... 14
12
Human Rights Education .......................................................................................... 15
Attachment 1: Compilation of Recommendations ............................................................. 16
Endnotes ................................................................................................................................. 20
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