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Good morning and thank you for your warm introduction.
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet – the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and their elders past and present.
Introduction
Submission by the Australian Human Rights Commission under the Universal Periodic Review
This 2014 UPR Progress Report is the fourth in a series of annual reports developed in the lead up to Australia’s Second Cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council.
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Hi, I'm Graeme Innes.
And, I'm Disability Discrimination Commissioner, for Australia.
And, I'm excited to be involved with this event.
Where a delegation of young people from non-government organizations, is taking part in the Conference of States Parties.
The Conference of States Parties is a United Nations event.
Where all the countries who have signed up to the Disability Convention, meet and talk about progress.
And often people from non-government organizations also attend.
The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate the ways in which life in immigration detention affects the health, well-being and development of children. The inquiry will assess the impact on children by seeking the views of people who were previously detained as children in closed immigration detention and by assessing the current circumstances and responses of children to immigration detention.
The Declaration is the most comprehensive tool we have available to advance the rights of Indigenous peoples.
As part of the development of our new website we are developing pages on human rights scrutiny by reference to each area of rights and obligations set out in the main human rights treaties which have been developed by the international community and adopted by Australia in the years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed in 1948.
