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PWDA Alert | | Tuesday 30 April 2013 |
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has released the List of Issues on Australia (word, 111kb) that will form the basis of its September review of Australia's compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
The List of Issues were agreed at the Committee's 9th session which was held at the UN in Geneva from 15-19 April. Representatives of the Australian CRPD Civil Society Parallel Report Group were at the 9th session (see Geneva Alerts) to lobby the Committee about key issues for people with disability, which are contained in the civil society report on Australia's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Disability Rights Now.
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The List of Issues contains fifty questions covering a broad range of areas. A number of areas involve issues raised by the representatives of the Australian CRPD Civil Society Parallel Report Group, including: - Please provide further information on the steps Australia is taking against the discrimination against people with disability in its immigration law and policy
- Please provide further information on what measures are planned to tackle intersectional discrimination against disabled women and indigenous people.
- Please provide the Committee with information on any plans to repeal Australia's declaration on Art. 12.
- What steps are being taken to end the unwarranted use of prisons for the management of unconvicted people with disability, particularly indigenous people with disabilities? What alternative support and accommodation options have been developed?
- Please inform the Committee on measures taken to discuss the declaration of Australia regarding Art.17 with DPOs and on plans to repeal it.
- Please provide the Committee with information whether the declaration of Australia on Article 18 has been discussed with DPO and if there are plans to repeal it.
- What measures are being taken to prohibit the redevelopment of 'contemporary institutions' where people with disability must live in order to obtain supports? How does the government secure the right of persons with disabilities to secure the right to independent living? Please provide data indicating the transition from institutional care to independent living disaggregated by gender, disabilities, age, and indigenous people.
- Following the Senate inquiry into sterilisation, what steps will the Australian Government take to meet its international human rights obligations to prohibit the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disability?
The Australian CRPD Civil Society Parallel Report Group will use the List of Issues to prepare additional information and advocacy tools for the Committee's review of Australia in September.
For more information about the Australian CRPD Civil Society Report Group and Disability Rights Now go to www.disabilityrightsnow.org.au
For previous updates from the Australian CRPD Civil Society Parallel Report Group go to the PWDA website.
Therese Sands
On behalf of the Australian CRPD Civil Society Parallel Report Group |
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