Appendix A Non-governmental organizations invited to
provide input into/comment on Australia’s
Common Core Document
Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
ACT Chief Minister’s Multicultural Consultative Council
ACT Multicultural Council Inc
Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Amnesty International Australia
Anglican Church of Australia - General Synod
Antidefamation
Unit B’nai B’rith
AntiSlavery
Society
Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
AsiaPacific
Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict
AUSTCARE
Australia Baptist World Aid
Australia Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
Australia Tibet Council
Australian Baha’i Community
Australian Catholic Migration and Refugee Office
Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
Australian Council for International Development
Australian Council for Lesbian and Gay Rights
Australian Council of Social Services
Australian Council of Trade Unions
Australian Education Union
Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
Australian Federation of Human Rights Organisations
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Australian Forum of Human Rights Organisations
Australian Human Rights Centre
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Australian Library and Information Association
Australian Multicultural Foundation
Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network
Australian Red Cross
Australian Section of the International Commission of Jurists
Australian Women’s Lawyers Association
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
Brahma Kumaris
Bravehearts Inc
Business and Professional Women Australia
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace
Centre for Democratic Institutions
Centre for International and Public Law ANU
Christian Solidarity Australasia
Civil Liberties Australia
Combined Community Legal Centres Group (NSW) Inc.
Communications Law Centre
Creative Industries Research & Application Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Defence for Children International
Environmental Defenders Office (NSW)
Equal Rights Network
Evatt Foundation
Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Federation of Community Legal Services Vic. Inc
Federation of Ethnic Community Councils of Australia
Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action
Health Consumers Network
Homelessness Legal Rights Project
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Human Rights Council of Australia
Human Rights International
Human Rights Law Resource Centre
Indigenous Law Centre
International Society for Human Rights
International Women’s Development Agency
Just Rights Queensland
Kingsford Legal Centre
Law Council of Australia
Law Institute of Victoria
Liberty Victoria
Maningrida Arts & Culture
Mooka Bula Indigenous Association Incorporated
Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association, NSW
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Secretariat
National Association of Community Legal Centres
National Children’s and Youth Law Centre
National Committee on Human Rights Education
National Council of Churches
National Council of Women of Australia
National Ethnic Disability Alliance
National Legal Commission
National Women’s Justice Coalition
National Youth Advocacy Network
NSW Council for Civil Liberties
Older Women’s Network
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
People with Disability Australia Inc
Plan International Australia
Project Nuff Stuff
Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Public Interest Law Clearing House Inc, NSW
Public Interest Law Clearing House Inc, Vic
Quaker Service Australia
Refugee Council of Australia
Rights Australia
School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
Sisters Inside
Southern Communities Advocacy Legal and Education Service
Tears of the Oppressed
Unifem
United Nations Association of Australia
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Youth Association of Australia
Uniting Church in Australia
Uniting Justice Australia
Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre
Victorian Council of Social Service
Vietnamese Community in Australia
Women with Disabilities Australia
Women’s Electoral Lobby
Women’s Rights Action Network Australia
Young Lawyers Human Rights Committee
Young Women’s Christian Association of Australia
Appendix B Text of Australia’s reservations to international
human rights treaties -
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Reservations:
Article 10
In relation to paragraph 2(a) the principle of segregation is accepted as an objective to be achieved progressively. In relation to paragraph 2(b) and 3 (second sentence) the obligation to segregate is accepted only to the extent that such segregation is considered by the responsible authorities to be beneficial to the juveniles or adults concerned.
Article 14
Australia makes the reservation that the provision of compensation for miscarriage of justice in the circumstances contemplated in paragraph 6 of article 14 may be by administrative procedures rather than pursuant to specific legal provision.
Article 20
Australia interprets the rights provided for by articles 19, 21 and 22 as consistent with article 20; accordingly, the Commonwealth and the constituent States, having legislated with respect to the subject matter of the article in matters of practical concern in the interest of public order (ordre public), the right is reserved not to introduce any further legislative provision on these matters.
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International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
Reservation:
The Government of Australia ... declares that Australia is not at present in a position specifically to treat as offences all the matters covered by article 4 (a) of the Convention. Acts of the kind there mentioned are punishable only to the extent provided by the existing criminal law dealing with such matters as the maintenance of public order, public mischief, assault, riot, criminal libel, conspiracy and attempts. It is the intention of the Australian Government, at the first suitable moment, to seek from Parliament legislation specifically implementing the terms of article 4 (a).
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Reservations:
The Government of Australia States that maternity leave with pay is provided in respect of most women employed by the Commonwealth Government and the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. Unpaid maternity leave is provided in respect of all other women employed in the State of NSW and elsewhere to women employed under Federal and some State industrial awards. Social Security benefits subject to income tests are available to women who are sole parents.
The Government of Australia advises that it is not at present in a position to take the measures required by article 11(2) to introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits throughout Australia.
The Government of Australia advises that it does not accept the application of the Convention in so far as it would require alteration of Defence Force policy which excludes women from combat duties.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
Reservation:
Australia accepts the general principles of article 37. In relation to the second sentence of paragraph (c), the obligation to separate children from adults in prison is accepted only to the extent that such imprisonment is considered by the responsible authorities to be feasible and consistent with the obligation that children be able to maintain contact with their families, having regard to the geography and demography of Australia. Australia, therefore, ratifies the Convention to the extent that it is unable to comply with the obligation imposed by article 37 (c).
The Australian Government has a policy of keeping existing reservations to human rights treaties actively under review, consistent with the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action.
Updates on the status of Australia’s treaty ratifications are available from the Australian Treaties Database. The Database is an on-line resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory, or where Australia has taken other treaty action: <http://www.info.dfat.gov.au/treaties/>.
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