Australian Human Rights Commission
Submission to the CEDAW Committee – 12 June 2018
Table of Contents
Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the United Nations
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ......... 1
1
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3
2
Priority areas ............................................................................................................ 3
3
Human Rights Framework....................................................................................... 4
3.1
3.2
4
Scrutiny of human rights and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on
Human Rights (CO 17, CEDAW article 2, LOI 1) ...................................... 4
Domestic incorporation (CO 15–17, 20–21, CEDAW Article 2, LOI 1) .... 4
Violence against women and girls and their health and wellbeing (CO 28–29,
40–43, CEDAW articles 1–5, 12 and 16, LOI 10–11, 21) ......................................... 5
4.1
4.2
4.3
Violence against women and girls ............................................................ 5
Sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace and in
university settings (LOI 16) ....................................................................... 6
Health and wellbeing of women and girls ................................................ 6
5
Women and work (CO 38–39, LOI 16, CEDAW article 11) ..................................... 7
6
Discrimination faced by Muslim women (CEDAW articles 1–3, LOI 4) ................. 8
7
Women in rural, regional and remote areas (CEDAW article 14) .......................... 8
8
Older women and homelessness (LOI 16, CEDAW articles 1 and 11) .................. 9
9
Human trafficking and modern slavery (CO 30–31, LOI 12, CEDAW article 6) .... 9
10
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls (LOI 4 and 19, CEDAW
articles 1–4, 11, 13 and 15) .....................................................................................10
11
Immigration and citizenship (LOI 22, CEDAW article 16) .....................................11
Attachment 1: Compilation of Recommendations ...........................................................12
Priority areas ......................................................................................................................12
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