Australia will shortly participate in the Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations Human Rights Council. This significant new process involves a review of the human rights record of each …
As australia's sex discrimination commisioner, leading the australian human rights commission's review into the treatment of women in the australian defence force has been both a priority and a pri…
This survey provides baseline data on the extent, nature and consequences of discrimination in Australian workplaces related to pregnancy, parental leave and return to work following parental leave…
Tapping into the full talent will give us a diversity advantage, creating commercial, societal and economic value. if we want gender balance to be the norm in our organisations, we must create the …
Released by the Australian Human Right Commission in 2013 – 4.1 million employed people in Australia (38.2 per cent of all employees), have unpaid caring responsibilities. This number will grow s…
Australia’s accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2008 offers a new way in which women’s human rights can be ad…