Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for List of Issues on Australia, 29 September 2017
Table of Contents
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Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3
2
General comments................................................................................................... 3
3
Violence against women and girls and their health and wellbeing (concluding
observations paras 28–29 and CEDAW Articles 1–4, 12 and 16).......................... 4
Family and domestic violence ............................................................................ 4
Violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women (concluding
observations paras 40–41 and CEDAW Articles 1 and 16)................................ 4
Violence against women and girls with disability (concluding observations
paras 42–43 and CEDAW Articles 1 and 16)....................................................... 5
Sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace and in university
settings ................................................................................................................. 6
Health and wellbeing of women and girls .......................................................... 6
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
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Medical interventions involving intersex women and girls (CEDAW Articles 2, 5)
.................................................................................................................................. 7
5
Discrimination faced by Muslim women (CEDAW Articles 1-3)............................ 7
6
Women in rural, regional and remote areas (CEDAW Article 14) ......................... 8
7
Older women and homelessness (CEDAW Articles 1 and 11) .............................. 8
8
Human trafficking and modern slavery (concluding observations paras 30–31
and CEDAW Article 6).............................................................................................. 9
9
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s rights (CEDAW Articles 1–4, 11,
13 and 15) ................................................................................................................10
9.1
Incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ........................10
9.2
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their families .11
9.3
Social security.....................................................................................................11
10
Immigration and citizenship (CEDAW Article 16) .................................................12
11
Women and work (concluding observations paras 38–39 and CEDAW Article 11)
.................................................................................................................................12
11.1 Gender segregation in the workforce ................................................................13
11.2 Family and domestic violence leave and related protections ..........................14
11.3 Paid Parental Leave ............................................................................................14
12
Women in defence (CEDAW Articles 8 and 11) ....................................................15
13
Attachment 1 — Compilation of issues for consideration in the LOI ..................16
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