Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for LOIPR - Australia, 27 June 2016
Endnotes
1
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
opened for signature 12 October 1984, 1465 UNTS 85 (entered into force 16 June 1987).
2
Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission - Information concerning Australia’s compliance
with the Convention against Torture (2014). At
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/AUS/INT_CAT_NGO_AUS_18690_E.
docx (viewed 8 June 2016).
3
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Submission by the Australian Human Rights Commission
under the Universal Periodic Review Process, April 2015, [26]. At
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/australia-s-second-universal-periodic-review (viewed 9
June 2016).
4
Australian Human Rights Commission, Australia’s Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights –
Commission Fact Sheets. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/australias-universal-periodic-reviewhuman-rights (viewed 10 June 2016).
5
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Australia, HRC, 31st sess, Agenda
Item 6, UN Doc A/HRC/31/14 (31 January 2016). At http://
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/AUSession23.aspx (viewed 9 June 2016).
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Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Australia, HRC, 31st sess, Agenda
Item 6, Addendum 1, UN Doc A/HRC/31/14 (31 January 2016). At http://
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/AUSession23.aspx (viewed 9 June 2016).
7
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, opened for signature 16 December 1966, 999
UNTS 171 (entered into force 23 March 1976).
8
Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577 UNTS 3
(entered into force 2 September 1990).
9
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Australia, HRC, 31st sess, Agenda
Item 6, Addendum 1, UN Doc A/HRC/31/14 (31 January 2016). At http://
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/AUSession23.aspx (viewed 9 June 2016).
10
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Index of Bills and Legislative Instruments. At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_Rights/Index_of_bills_and_i
nstruments (viewed 7 June 2016).
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Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Guidance Notes and Resources. At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_Rights/Guidance_Notes_an
d_Resources (viewed 7 June 2016).
12
See Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights - Human Rights Scrutiny Reports. At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_Rights/Completed_inquiries
(viewed 7 June 2016).
13
George Williams and Daniel Reynolds, ‘The Operation and Impact of Australia’s Parliamentary
Scrutiny Regime for Human Rights’ (2016) 41 2 Monash University Law Review 469, 475.
14
Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), Div 274.
15
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety Survey 2012 (2013). At:
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/4906.0Main%20Features12012?opendocum
ent&tabname=Summary&prodno=4906.0&issue=2012&num=&view=) (viewed 7 June 2016).
16
VicHealth, Preventing Violence Against Women, Website. At https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/ourwork/preventing-violence-against-women (Viewed 1 March 2016).
17
A. Dunlkey, J. Phillips, Domestic violence in Australia: a quick guide to the issues, Parliament of
Australia, March 2015. At
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/r
p1415/Quick_Guides/DVinAust (Viewed 1 March 2016).
18
C Cunneen, ‘Preventing Violence against Indigenous Women through Programs which Target Men’,
University of New South Wales Law Journal, (2005), p242.
19
Australian Human Rights Commission, Working without fear: Results of the 2012 sexual
harassment national telephone survey (2012). At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/working-withoutfear-results-sexual-harassment-national-telephone-survey-2012 (viewed 16 June 2016).
20
Australian Bureau of Statistics Personal Safety Survey cited in Australian Human Rights
Commission, Children’s Rights Report 2015 (2015) Appendix 9. At
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/AHRC_ChildrensRights_Report_2015_0.pdf
(viewed 10 March 2016).
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