‘Second to None’? Australia and Indigenous Human Rights

Cobo Martínez , Study of the Problem of Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations, UN Doc: E/CN.4/Sub.2/1986/7/Add.4UNDoc.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Decision 1(53) on Australia, Un Doc: CERD/C/53/Misc.17/Rev.2, 11 August 1998. The early warning procedure is discussed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 1999, HREOC Sydney, 2000, Chapter 2.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Decision 2(54) on Australia, Un Doc: CERD/C/54/Misc.40/Rev.2, 18 March 1999. Reproduced in Native Title Report 1999, above.

Attorney-General, Media Release, 19 March 1999.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Decision 2(55) on Australia, UN Doc: A/54/18, para 23(2), para 4.

The transcript of the dialogue can be downloaded at <www.faira.org.au/cerd/decisions.html>.

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Attorney-General , CERD Report Unbalanced, Press Release, 26 March 2000.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government to Review UN Treaty Committees, Press Release, 30 March 2000.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, above.

The Hon Alexander Downer MP, 7:30 Report, Transcript of Interview, 7 July 2000.

The transcript of the hearing can be downloaded at <www.faira.org.au/hrc/default.html>.

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Attorney-General , UN Human Rights Committee, Press Release, 29 July 2000.

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Australia. UN Doc: E/C.12/1/Add.50, 01/09/2000.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs, Attorney-General and Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Improving the Effectiveness of United Nations Committees, Joint News Release, 29 August 2000.

United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2000, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000, p.107.

Mr Henkin in FAIRA, Human Rights Committee transcript, 20 July 2000, pp.42–3.

For a perspective on women's issues see the article in this issue of Alt. LJ on Beijing +5. p.16.

For a detailed analysis see Pritchard S. , ‘The Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Remainson its Troubled Path through the UN’, in IWGIA, The Indigenous World 1999–2000, IWGIA, Copenhagen 2000.

Rosas A. , ‘Human Rights and Trade: An EU Perspective’, Conference paper, Trade and Cooperation with the European Union in the New Millennium, University of Melbourne, 13–15 December 2000, p.1.

Rosas A. , above, p.2.

Rosas A. , above. There are, however, restraints on when the non-execution clause can be invoked.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Joint Declaration on Relations between Australia and the European Union, 26 June 1997, <www.dfat.gov.au/geo/european_union/jointdec.html>.

Hughes A. , Speech, Trade and Cooperation with the European Union in the New Millennium, ref 23 above.

European Union, Joint Action Plan — New EU-Canada Agreement, Delegation of the European Union in Canada, Ottawa, 1998, <www.delcan.cec.eu.int/english/>.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, In the National Interest — Australia's Foreign and Trade Policy White Paper, Commonwealth of Australia, 1997, paras 24–5.