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
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
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