budget and finances, as approved by Parliament. Following its budget submission for
2016/17 financial year, the Commission was allocated $1.492m, an increase of $942,000
from its baseline budget of $550,000 in 2015. The Commission, following its last budget
submission has now been allocated $2.4m, an increase of $900,000 for the 2017/18
financial year.
The Commission is committed towards ensuring that it is Paris Principles compliant and to
that end will continue working closely with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human
Rights Institutions (APF) with a view of applying for accreditation and gaining full
membership of the APF and Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions
(GANHRI). The Commission has agreed to an APF facilitated capacity assessment and
currently as an observer of the APF, the Commission has and is actively participating in a
range of activities.
Complaints of human rights violations
received by the Commission from women
and LGBTI persons
Strip search of a female in a public
place in the presence of a male
police officer
Female kept in a cell with a drunk
male suspect who allegedly
molested her
Female kept in police custody
without female officers
Domestic violence, marital rape,
child sexual abuse and refusal by
police to facilitate medical
examination
Eviction notice to vacate marital
home served to a complainant
whose divorce case was pending in
court.
LGBTI persons subjected to verbal
and physical assault.
Commission’s efforts in protecting and
promoting human rights
Independent
Investigations:
The
Commission has launched independent
investigations into allegations of torture
and brutality, death in custody, strip
searches conducted by police, sexual
assault of prisoners, deprivation of rights
of arrested and detained persons,
discrimination on a prohibited ground as it
affects LGBTI persons, persons living with
disabilities,
racial
and
religious
discrimination, denial of access to justice
for foreign nationals in detention, arbitrary
evictions, rights of the child, sexual assault
of children and denial or prompt medical
examination and treatment in such cases,
deprivation of shelter for women with
mental illness and human trafficking.
Monitoring Compliance: 40 visits were
made to places of detention (corrections
facilities, police cell blocks, immigration
safe house, and hospitals) between 20162017.
Human Rights during natural disasters:
Inspection of evacuation centres post
Tropical Cyclone Winston