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Commission calls for calm on Manus Island

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Australian Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow is calling on the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea to honour their international human rights obligations and avoid use of force on Manus Island.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has been monitoring the situation as it develops and has sought further detail on the events of today.

The presence of authorities at the Manus Island facility today is of particular concern to the Commission, which strongly supports the view of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, that violence must be avoided.

Research by Government Reform Bodies involving Vulnerable People and Populations

Ethics Training Day: Dealing with Vulnerability

Princeton Room, Bond University, 14 University Drive, Robina, Qld
 

 

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Introduction


I represent an organisation that works extensively with people who can be part of “vulnerable populations”. My background is as a human rights lawyer. While human rights and human ethics are not the same thing, there are some important cross-overs in how we work.

Australia adds its human rights expertise to UN Council

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Australia’s election to the United Nations Human Rights Council acknowledges the expertise and leadership Australia brings to international human rights, according to the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Rosalind Croucher.

Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2017)

Summary

This submission provides information concerning the civil and political rights of key population groups in Australia and other thematic issues engaging civil and political rights. In relation to each section, the Commission has referred to the relevant articles of the ICCPR engaged and (where appropriate) the relevant paragraph of the Committee’s list of issues prior to reporting dated 9 November 2012.

This submission provides information concerning the civil and political rights of key population groups in Australia and other thematic issues engaging civil and political rights. In relation to each section, the Commission has referred to the relevant articles of the ICCPR engaged and (where appropriate) the relevant paragraph of the Committee’s list of issues prior to reporting dated 9 November 2012.

CRPD Information for List of Issues Prior to Reporting – Australia (2017)

Information for List of Issues Prior to Reporting – Australia

Submission to Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

June 2017

Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2017)

Submission by the Australian Human Rights Commission to the UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
 

 

Hobart Oration

Explore a speech by Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, in relation to the state of human rights in Australia.

HRTC highlights newsletter - Jan 2017

Working internationally to advance human rights

 

 

List of Issues: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2016)

 

Information for List of Issues – Australia

29 August 2016

 

Hotung Fellowship Public Lecture 2016

Human rights across the Tasman: a widening gulf. I am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship.