Casework - Indigenous Rights

Indigenous Rights: Request for Urgent Action on NT Intervention from UN CERD (Sept 2009)

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (‘CERD’) has requested that the Australian Government take urgent action to ensure that the Northern Territory Intervention complies with Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.   In an Urgent Action Letter to Australia dated 13 March 2009, the [...]

Indigenous Rights: Request for Country Visit from UN Special Rapporteur (Nov 2006)

On 30 November 2006, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, on behalf of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Services Network, the Castan Centre for Human Rights, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research and Action, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, the National Association of Community Legal Centres Human Rights Network, the North [...]