Australian Human Rights Commission Information for LOIPR - Australia, 27 June 2016 Attachment 1: Compilation of issues for consideration in the LOIPR • National Human Rights Institution Ensuring that the Commission is guided by a comprehensive definition of human rights, including by CAT being a scheduled instrument. • Ratification of OPCAT Information on the timing of ratification of OPCAT and the nature of the National Preventive Mechanism to be established for places of detention. • Scrutiny of human rights and role of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Information on the incorporation of human rights into Australian law including procedures for considering the concerns raised by the PJCHR. • Violence against women and children Information on how the National Plan addresses gender inequality, focuses on prevention measures, and ensures robust, independent monitoring and evaluation. Information on the funding for specialist family violence services including legal services (community legal centres and Family Violence Prevention Legal Services), funding for appropriate support for crisis and transitional accommodation, and adequacy of funding for the Third Action Plan of the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020. Information on how the National Plan addresses the specific needs and rights of children and young people recognising that discrimination, harassment, violence, and a lack of safety are all abuses of children's human rights. To this end the Commission refers the Committee to the National Children’s Commissioner’s Children’s Rights Report 2015. Information on the monitoring of the implementation of Coronial Inquest findings, to address systemic failures to protect women from domestic violence. Information on the progress to establish a national child death and injury data base. • Trafficking in persons Information about mechanisms for providing compensation to victims of human trafficking and slavery and the adequacy of support services for victims. 20