Posts tagged Australian Human Rights Commission

“We hear a lot of reassurances from different bodies that there has been change, but nobody has been able to produce any evidence of that.”

The AHRC is asking to hear intersex people’s personal experiences of medical interventions and “suggestions for changes to clinical practices and legal frameworks”.

The footballer is in limbo while the league creates a trans policy.

A survey found that just 3 per cent of civil celebrants would resign if forced to marry same-sex couples.

The landmark data in the report was based on a survey completed by more than 30,000 university students across all 39 Australian universities.

“We know LGBTI young people experience higher rates of sexual assault and increased sexual violence within the community”

“We have got to stand up and speak out or the cause will be lost,” Gillian Triggs, Australian Human Rights Commissioner.

Australia’s first openly gay Muslim Imam started a group to support LGBTI Muslims

The billboard was crowdfunded by international LGBTI rights group All Out, in partnership with Human Rights Law Centre, with the aim of raising awareness on gay Iranian refugees Nima and Ashkan who are currently detained on Nauru.

President of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, wants LGBTI Australians to do more for rainbow refugees.