Rights and Protections Publications

13/2013 concerning refusal to accommodate the author's disability to perform jury duty

Australia appeared in Geneva for an interactive dialogue on 9 November 2015. During the session, 104 Member States delivered statements and made recommendations regarding Australia's human rights record. Australia received 290 recommendations.

The report was formally adopted at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council on 17 March 2016.

Australia made a statement to the UN Human Rights Council at the adoption of the Report of the UPR Working Group on 17 March 2016.

Australia lodged its response to the second-cycle UPR on 26 February 2016.

The Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Act 2017 improves access to copyright materials for people with disability, while simplifying and streamlining the copyright framework for the education, library and archive sectors.

1875/2009 concerning visa cancellation, immigration detention and removal to the United States.

The Marrakesh Treaty provides exceptions to copyright protections to permit the printing and sending of accessible material in Australia and across borders.

591/2014 concerning removal to Sri Lanka

1937/2010 concerning the refusal by the Australian Government to issue one of the authors with a permanent visa.

United Nations human rights recommendations database that draws together UN human rights treaty body recommendations for Australia from treaties and reviews that Australia is a party to.

1973/2010 concerning the extradition of the author from Australia to the United States.

Your completed Statement of Compatibility must be included with the explanatory memorandum of a Bill or an explanatory statement of a legislative instrument when presented to Parliament.

Your completed Statement of Compatibility must be included with the explanatory memorandum of a Bill or an explanatory statement of a legislative instrument when presented to Parliament.

1875/2009 concerning visa cancellation, immigration detention and removal to the United States.

Designed to assist Commonwealth public sector officers to undertake an initial assessment of the human rights compatibility of a proposed Bill or legislative instrument.

Australia submitted its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) national report to the United Nations in August 2015, to review Australia’s progress in protecting and promoting human rights.

1968/2010 concerning sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of release.

2053/2011 concerning removal to Senegal. The author alleged that Australia would violate articles 6, 7 and 18 of the ICCPR if the author was returned to Senegal. The author's application for a protection visa had been refused. The Committee found that Australia would not be in violation if the author was returned.

2094/2011 and 2136/2012 concerning asylum seekers with adverse security assessments