IS407 Presentation Assignment Australia UPR Report

Group 5 Members §

Questions submitted in advance §

• Deadline after mid term exam
  • 5 weeks for 5 presentations
  • 30-35 mins
  • 10 minutes question
  • each member 5 mins each
• No need for powerpoint
  • We can do powerpoint if we want
  • Microsoft docs is fine, enlarge text
  • Not required to submit written form
  • You must submit the presentation into teams, maybe script
• 12 main points, pick any 3 points, most interesting
  • Select one doc and select the theme, you’re interested in
    • Freedom of expression, imprisonment
• methodology is where you get info from
• Criteria: No reading from screen share
• Read and answer the questions for a short presentations 2022-05-06

I. Reports and information

National Report Sokha Nylyching ¹

Compliance of UN Information Seang Vatey ²

Summary of stakeholders’ information Chea Resan

• 03. G2028042.pdf ³

II. Questions submitted in advance Nuon Puthisoptey and Vachana ⁴

III. Outcome of the review Long Chhunneang Rachany ⁵

Summary of stakeholder’s submission for Australia in 2021 §

• 26 stakeholders submissions

• In this section, we will only look at some of the 90+ recommendations made by all the stakeholders in Australia. We will only discuss select concerns and recommendations most relevant and sensitive to Australia as our team already established.

• Firsty we will look at what the stakeholders all say about the rights of vulnerable groups in Australia.

• The first issue is the The rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

  • the national human rights institution called the Australia Human Rights Commission or the AHRC called for the address of racial discrimination of the aboriginal among other racial groups in Australia.
  • The Joint Submission 1, which was a collection of comments from 202 of Australian NGOs, also recommended Australia to revise its constitution
    • to recognize the aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders’s rights
    • remove all racist elements
    • to include an anti-discrimination clause
  • !!! Are there reasons why aboriginals are overrepresented other than australia being bad?

• Secondly, we’ll look at the recommendations for rights of persons with disabilities

  • The AHRC once again raise concern over the National Disability Strategy which was planned for 2010-2020. This project remain underfunded and made little progress in non-consensual sterilization of disabled people, low labour participation in the disabled, and how disabled people weren’t able to stand trial.
  • The HRW furthered this point by reminding that Australia agreed, in its 2015 UPR, to improve the treatment of the disabled in its criminal justice system for mental and cognitive disabled people. There were little progress from this and even cases of violence from other inmates to the disabled and also difficult confinement conditions. The HRW recommends people with disabilities can’t be held in solitary confinement
  • The LCA recommends eliminating discrinination and violence against the disabled and ensure equal opportunity to economic, social, and cultural rights. Meaning that the disabled should be able to get a job they are qualified for without discrimnation.
  • The JS1 similarly recommends inculsive education and end seclusion of children with disabilities.

• Asylum seekers and refugees are another group in this.

  • It is said that asylum seekers get detained without reason or time of release in prison like environments which could last months. The JS3, JS4 and other Joint Submissions called out negative changes in the formal criminal justice system that lengthen the processing and reject assistance to these groups. The JS1, HRW, HRFA, LCA, FMSI all recommends the reversal of this and address other issues such as child migrants and refoulment (or the sending of refugees back to their country of origin)
    • Shouldn’t be able to hold asylum seekers for more than a period

• Why Australia keeps asylum seekers out

  • How many asylum seekers come to australia a year?
    • How many gets in?
    • 17,000 gets in a year
    • How many stays in detension centres
  • Is the NDS effective?

• National human rights institution: The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) raised many problems and suggested solving them without much help in solution

  • Main issues
    • Actions against discrimination
      • Against women
      • Racism:
        • of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
        • Islamophobia
        • Asians during COVID-19
      • Age
    • Human rights
      • against torture
      • Involuntary surgery of sex characteristics on infants
      • Freedom of expression and rights of privacy
      • Rights of peaceful assembly
      • Education on human rights
      • Support of refugees and asylum seekers
      • Safe treatment of immigrants
    • Law system
      • Mandatory sentencing vs non-custodial measures
      • Raise criminal age
    • Socio-economic
      • Social security & welfare programs
      • Gender pay gap
      • Rate of labour force participation for the disabled
      • Closing of the gap between indegenous and non-indegenous Australians

• Other stakeholders

  • Cross-cutting issues
    • Equality and non-discrimination
      • Unnecessarily complex anti-discrimination framework
    • Development, the environment, and business and human rights
    • Human rights and counter-terrorism
  • Civil and political rights
    • Right to life, liberty and security of person
    • Administration of justice, including impunity, and the rule of law
    • Fundamental freedoms
    • Prohibition of all forms of slavery
    • Right to privacy and family life
  • Economic, social and cultural rights
    • Right to social security
    • Right to an adequate standard of living
    • Right to health
    • Right to education
  • Rights of specific persons or groups
    • Women
    • Children
    • Persons with disabilities
    • Indigenous peoples
    • Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
    • Stateless persons

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• Do we know why Australia’s child criminal age is 10 instead of 14?

References §

Footnotes §

1. 01. G2035620.pdf ↩

2. 02. G2030642.pdf ↩

3. 03. G2028042.pdf ↩

4. 1_Advance_questions_Australia_first_batch.docx, 2_Advance_questions_Australia_second_batch.docx ↩

5. 02. G2112233.pdf, 03. G2112233.pdf, 01. G2107043.pdf ↩