The Native Title Amendment Bill 2012 proposes a number of amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 but falls short of what is required to remedy significant shortcomings in Australia’s treatment of Indigenous peoples’ rights in relation to their traditional and ancestral lands. This is a particularly important human rights issue given Australia’s commitments under … Read More >>
Queensland Parliament is calling for Submission for the Sustainable Planning and other Legislation Amendment Bill
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has welcomed the opportunity provided by the INSLM to comment on powers relating to questioning warrants and questioning and detention warrants under the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 and control orders and preventative detention orders under the Criminal Code Act 1995. ALHR holds significant concern about the legislative … Read More >>
Stephen Keim, Salwa Marsh and Kate Moran had an op-ed published on Online Opinion arguing against the Newman Government’s cuts to several community legal centres and support services. “The recent funding cuts will have a serious negative effect on the ability of the community to access justice. The government should reconsider the focus of its … Read More >>
See link for an Online Opinion piece from Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14068
In 2013 the UN Human Rights Committee will conduct its Sixth Periodic Report of Australia, reviewing Australia?s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). In preparation for the review, the Committee will ask the Government to respond to a list of issues, which a coalition of Australian NGOs, including ALHR, have … Read More >>
In 2010 Australia was reviewed before the CEDAW committee (Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) and was asked to report back in two years (ie this year!) for a mid-term review on two particular issues: 1) Violence against women – including the implementation of the National Plan; 2) Special measures … Read More >>
ALHR made the attached submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Crimes Legislation (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Bill 2012. The Bill seeks to give effect to the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (TOC) with special reference to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, both … Read More >>
Young UN Women Australia Perth asked the ALHR WA Branch to put together an article for the June edition of their Zine e-magazine. Tiffany Henderson, WA Co-Convenor, penned a great critique of the National Human Rights Action Plan from the perspective of women’s human rights.
I was invited by a religious lobby group to write an article on the place of religious vilification within international and domestic human rights and anti-discrimination law. Religious and racial vilification and the religious and racial hatred have been causes of some of those ?barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind? both before … Read More >>
ALHR has made a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee in support of the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012.
