Australia’s National Children’s Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner are ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says simplifying and modernising Australia’s Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) will better protect the rights of people with disability.

New report reveals almost one in 4 employers consider workers in their 50s ‘old’ and are reluctant to hire people over 50 and under 24 despite skills shortages.

Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner is calling on the Queensland Government to honour a commitment made by governments across Australia to the development of a National Roadmap for ...

The Child Safe Organisations project prepared a background paper on cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, to inform work on child safe organisations.

Back to contents From the bench: landmark human rights cases Why do I love HREOC? Well, I was there at the birth. I watched the Commission grow and accept new challenges every year. Australians used ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission is Australia’s national independent human rights body. One of our main functions is to inquire into and conciliate complaints made under federal human rights and ...

Non-discrimination and equality rights are central features of the major human rights treaties. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within ...

Corporate Social Responsibility & Human Rights (2008) 1. What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is generally understood to mean that ...

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner says a comprehensive national approach to addressing all forms of racism – including antisemitism – will help make Australia a safer place for everyone.

At the request of Australia’s 39 universities, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted a national, independent survey of university students to gain greater insight into the nature, ...