Human Rights

A variety of terms are used to refer to international instruments by which states establish rights and obligations among themselves. For an overview of the various instruments that are legally binding internationally, see this link to the UN.

Australia is party to 7 international Human Rights Treaties:

  1. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR)
  2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  3. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
  4. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  5. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
  6. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  7. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

and a party to the following 7 Protocols:

  1. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights establishing an individual communication mechanism
  2. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty
  3. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
  4. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
  5. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women establishing an individual communication mechanism
  6. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities establishing an individual communication mechanism
  7. Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Australia is also a party to 2 individual communications mechanisms under the:

  • CAT
  • CERD

(see the following link to the Attorney General’s Department’s  Human Rights Communications).

However, the Australian Government only supports the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Persons as a non-legally binding document.

Human Rights and Lesbians

Regrettably, the United Nations has absorbed gender ideology and confused ‘gender identity; with sexual orientation, so that lesbian rights are now under the large LGBTI rainbow umbrella and easier to overlook. This is a link to their LGBTI page.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been influenced further by TQI activists and lesbian rights crowded out even further. Lesbians (and other women) now find our rights subservient to those of men (eg those who claim to be women). Unlike our earlier enjoyment of being granted exemptions under anti-discrimination legislation, to redress our unequal sex-based position in many areas of Australia life, ‘gender equality’ has imposed new and further injustices against us. Such legislative changes have had enormous detrimental effects on our cultures and our rights to health, freedom of association and expression, etc.