Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for LOI – Australia, 29 August 2016
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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers, Offences and Other Measures) Act 2015 (Cth) sch 4
Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law
Enforcement Inquiry into Human Trafficking, (2016). At
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/submission-inquiry-human-trafficking-2016 (viewed 23
August 2016).
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Mission to Australia,
(2012), UN Doc A/HRC/20/18/Add.1, para 82 (g). At
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Trafficking/Pages/Visits.aspx (viewed 29 August 2016).
The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Human Rights Sub-Committee
in its report on the Inquiry into Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking, recommended
the Australian Government further investigate the establishment of a federal compensation scheme for
survivors of slavery and people trafficking; and review the current rates of compensation. Joint
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Trading Lives: Modern Day Human
Trafficking (2013). At
http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees?url
=jfadt/slavery_people_trafficking/report.htm (viewed 29 August 2016).
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Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law
Enforcement Inquiry into Human Trafficking, (2016). At
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/submission-inquiry-human-trafficking-2016 (viewed 23
August 2016).
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Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law
Enforcement Inquiry into Human Trafficking, (2016). At
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/submission-inquiry-human-trafficking-2016 (viewed 23
August 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) [63]. At
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/AUSession23.aspx (viewed 9 June 2016).
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Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law
Enforcement Inquiry into Human Trafficking, (2016). At
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/submission-inquiry-human-trafficking-2016 (viewed 23
August 2016).
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House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, Parliament of
Australia, Surrogacy Matters (2016). At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Social_Policy_and_Legal_Affairs/I
nquiry_into_surrogacy/Report (viewed 26 June 2016).
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The Committee’s 10 recommendations concern improving access to well-regulated and lawful
domestic surrogacy arrangements so that there is less need for Australians to travel overseas to
engage in surrogacy (Recommendations 1-6), and to promote better protection of the human rights of
birth mothers and the children they carry on behalf of Australian citizens involved in international
surrogacy arrangements (Recommendations 7-10). If the recommendations are adopted, it will be a
step towards more uniform domestic laws that provide increased access to well-regulated surrogacy
arrangements in Australia, and increased scrutiny of the practices in other countries which should lead
to better human rights outcomes. Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission No. 67 to the
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into the
regulatory and legislative aspects of international and domestic surrogacy arrangements, February
2016, [6]. At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Social_Policy_and_Legal_Affairs/I
nquiry_into_surrogacy/Submissions (viewed 26 June 2016).
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Australian Human Rights Commission, UPR Factsheet – Extradition mutual assistance and
trafficking (2015). At
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/14.%20Extradition%20mutual%20assistance%20an
d%20trafficking%20Final_1.docx (viewed 7 June 2016).
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