Legal Studies Human Rights LCMID

UDHR (1948) Article 4 and ICCPR (1966) Article 8

Right to freedom from slavery

UDHR (1948) Article 19

Right to free media

UDHR (1948) Article 21

Right to universal suffrage

UDHR (1948) Articles 23 and 24

Right to labour

UDHR (1948) Article 26 and ICESCR Article 13

Right to elementary education

UN Charter Article 1(1)

Peace Rights

UN Charter Article 1 (2)

Collective right to Self-determination

1772 Somersett judgement

Made slavery illegal in Britain + Commonwealth Nations eventually

When did Indigenous Australians gain the right to vote in all jurisdictions

1965

Trade Unions Act 1871

Made trade unions legal in Britain

NSW Public Instruction Act 1880

Made education free, secular, and compulsory

1972 Stockholm Declaration

An agreement to deal with specific environmental threats

Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) Article 1

Defines a state as one with a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and a capacity to enter into international relations

Role of Anti-Slavery Australia as a non-legal response to slavery

advocate and represent victims

Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)

Australia’s ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Constitution Section 51 (XXIX)

External affairs power

Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic)

State human rights charter

UN Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

Sexual exploitation is the most documented/reported, forced labour/marriage/servitude is less so.

Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) Division 270 and 271

Criminalised human trafficking domestically

UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent Trafficking (2000)

International legal framework against trafficking

Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth)

Limited effectiveness of domestic response to human trafficking

R v Tang

First person convicted under anti-slavery laws, valid under constitution section 51 xxix