Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Australia's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, a report submitted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Australia's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination

a report submitted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Part 1. Jurisprudence of United Nation HUman Rights procedures : General recommendations of the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination -- General comments of the Human Rights Committee -- Selected views of the Human Rights Committee -- Part 2. Guidelines for reporting under the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination : Guidelines for reporting under the convention -- Reporting on the substantive provisions -- Part 3. Australian's ninth periodic report: Concluding observations of the cerd committee : Positive aspects -- Principal subjects of concern -- Suggestions and recommendations -- Part 4. Overview of major developments in Australia concerning Indigenous rights during the reporting perios : Native title -- Aboriginal Land Righs (NT) Acts 1976 and the reeves report -- The Evatt review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage protection Act 1984 1984 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage protection bill 1998 -- Indigenous law and custom in Australia -- Implementation of the recommendations of the Royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody -- Juvenile justice issues -- The report of the "Stolen Generations Inquiry" -- Economic and social indicators -- Major policy developments in Indigenous affairs -- Changes to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity commission -- Incitement to Racial Hatred -- Racial discrimination, the Australian constitution and the Hindmarsh Bridge affair