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Sep
22
Rights of persons with disabilities - UN optional protocol
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 10.28 am
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Posted by: Sarah Condie
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Disability Discrimination,
Human Rights
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The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has come into force in Australia as of 20 September 2009. This protocol provides a mechanism for Australians to make complaints to the United Nations Disabilities Committee in the event that all domestic remedies have been exhausted.
The Convention was ratified in July 2008. The Convention has also been declared under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to conciliate complaints based on breaches of the Convention.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has useful information on this Convention and the rights of people people with disabilities.
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