Human rights
Australian Human Rights Commission
Australian Human Rights Commission
The Australian Human Rights Commission is responsible for promoting and encouraging protection of human rights in Australia.
Human rights - Hot Topics series, no 65
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Current human rights issues - counter terrorism laws - indigenous Australians - refugees - manadatory detention - homelessness - human rights in an international and domestic context - full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian Human Rights Commission
Links to international treaties and declarations - how to lodge a human rights complaint - information for students.
United Nations
Australian human rights law library
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) (current version)
Links to HREOC decisions 1985-2001 - law journals - Australian Human Rights Commission reports - NGOs - discrimination - womens rights.
Bill of Rights - Hot Topics series, no 54
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Should Australia have a Bill of Rights? - ACT's Human Rights Act 2004 - recognition to principles of fundamental human rights - international comparisons - impact of a Bill of Rights in the Australian context.
Intellectual disability & criminal law - Hot Topics series, no 39
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Duty of care - negligence - discrimination - guardianship - financial management - consent - behaviour intervention - difficulties faced as a victim or an offender - exercise of legal rights.
International humanitarian law - Hot Topics series, no 80
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Sources of international humanitarian law (IHL) - types of armed conflict - combatants and prisoners of war - protecting the wounded, sick and shipwrecked - civilians - conduct of hostilities - non-international armed conflict - IHL and international human rights law - implementation and enforcement of IHL.
