Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has made a submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.The submission provides information to the Committee when it considers Australia's periodic reports under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The submission highlights concerns with Australia's implementation of the treaty in relations to Indigenous issues including native title, heritage, deaths in custody, mandatory sentencing, self determination, the stolen generations and Indigenous disadvantage especially in relation to education, housing and health. The submission also covers the issue of migrant acces to social security.
The Submissions
are available for download in both 
PDF
and 
Word
formats below.
Last updated 2 December 2001.
- Native Title
- Aboriginal Heritage
- Indigenous Disadvantage
- Self-determination
- Deaths in Custody and Mandatory Sentencing
- The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Their Families, Bringing Them Home
- Two Year Waiting Period for Newly Arrived Migrants
