Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for LOI – Australia, 29 August 2016
Table of Contents
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Introduction .................................................................................................................. 3
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Scrutiny of human rights and the role of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on
Human Rights ............................................................................................................... 4
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National Human Rights Institution ............................................................................. 4
4
Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR and other treaties ............... 5
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Protection against discrimination .............................................................................. 6
6
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ......................................................... 6
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
7
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative body and
ILO Convention 169 ....................................................................................... 6
Close the gap .................................................................................................. 7
Income management and poverty ............................................................... 8
Cultural Rights (native title) .......................................................................... 8
People with Disabilities ............................................................................................... 9
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
8
National Disability Strategy .......................................................................... 9
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) .......................................... 10
Employment of people with disabilities .................................................... 10
Prisoners and mental health ...................................................................... 11
Women......................................................................................................................... 11
8.1
8.2
9
Women and Work ......................................................................................... 11
Violence against women and children ...................................................... 13
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Issues (SOGII) ........................ 15
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
10
10.1
10.2
11
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
Intersex .......................................................................................................... 15
Gender identity ............................................................................................. 15
Employment .................................................................................................. 16
Education ...................................................................................................... 16
Older persons ............................................................................................................. 16
Elder abuse ................................................................................................... 16
Employment .................................................................................................. 17
Refugees and Asylum Seekers ................................................................................ 18
Health requirement ...................................................................................... 18
Mandatory immigration detention, including of children ....................... 18
Asylum seekers living in the community.................................................. 19
Third country processing of asylum claims ............................................. 20
Temporary protection and family reunion ................................................ 20
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Trafficking ................................................................................................................... 21
13
Human Rights Education .......................................................................................... 22
Attachment 1: Compilation of issues for consideration in the LOI ................................. 24
Endnotes ................................................................................................................................. 29
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