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.
ALHR welcomed the opportunity contribute to the next stage of consultation in the Government’s National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP), making a detailed submission on the Exposure Draft
ALHR yesterday made a submission supporting a Bill that proposes to remove current provisions of the Migration Act which provide for minimum penalties for persons found guilty of aggravated people smuggling offences. The minimum penalties range from 5 to 8 years imprisonment. The minimum mandatory sentencing regime has been widely criticised for its inhumane and … Read More >>
In this substantial submission to the Attorney-General’s project to consolidate Commonwealth anti-discrimination law, ALHR made 34 recommendations on the legislative regime to protect Australians from discrimination.
ALHR welcomed the opportunity to make a submission on the Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, which amends certain evidentiary procedures in the Migration Act that have an impact on minors implicated in people smuggling offences. Specifically, the Bill defines timeframes and establishes evidentiary procedures for the age determination and prosecution of non-citizens who … Read More >>
Feature article by West Australian and National Committee member John Southalan. The common law and human rights both provide important protections for individuals, groups and society in general. Along with this benefit, however, both human rights and the common law have shortcomings with their protections able to be limited or lost for many reasons, depending … Read More >>
The Commonwealth Parliament has recently been debating legislation to domestically ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was signed by the Australian government in 2008. Serious concerns have been expressed about the breadth of exemptions which the government has inserted into the implementing legislation, which would permit weapons to be stockpiled on Australian soil in … Read More >>
ALHR President Stephen Keim’s regular column in Brisbane Legal magazine. This month Mr Keim writes in support of the Centre for Policy Development’s Report ‘A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ CPD Report ‘A New Approach’
ALHR President Stephen Keim SC was a guest speaker at the Amnesty International Conference in Brisbane on 6-7 October 2011. The Conference, under the theme ‘Change the World’, marked the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International. Mr Keim gave a workshop paper on ‘The Human Rights Framework: What Does it Offer?’, and participated in a panel … Read More >>
