Voices in the Human Rights Dialogue: The Individual Victim and the Australian Human Rights Commission

Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 159, 2010

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last revised: 9 Oct 2015

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Dominique Allen

Labour, Equality and Human Rights research group, Department of Business Law, Monash Business School; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Date Written: March 1, 2010

Abstract

During the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation, there was little consideration of the enforcement of human rights complaints or the role of the Australian Human Rights Commission in protecting human rights. Although the issue is off the government’s agenda until 2014, it is worth evaluating the National Human Rights Consultation Committee’s and the Commission’s recommendations about resolving human rights complaints. This article highlights the limitations of these models, based on the experience of resolving discrimination complaints, and considers how best to strengthen the Commission’s role in protecting and promoting human rights under a future human rights Act.

Keywords: Australia, human rights Act, discrimination

Suggested Citation

Allen, Dominique, Voices in the Human Rights Dialogue: The Individual Victim and the Australian Human Rights Commission (March 1, 2010). Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 159, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1591976

Dominique Allen (Contact Author)

Labour, Equality and Human Rights research group, Department of Business Law, Monash Business School ( email )

Caulfield Campus
Sir John Monash Drive
Caulfield East, Victoria 3084
Australia

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Boalt Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
United States

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