Need help with a human rights complaint?
Remedy Australia is not a legal organisation and can't offer you advice or assistance with human rights complaints, but you may try these organisations below. Note that before complaining to the United Nations, you must try all reasonable avenues of complaint available to you in Australia, otherwise your complaint will be rejected.
Within Australia
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights Law Centre (Melbourne & Sydney)
- Justice Connect (Melbourne & Sydney)
- Public Interest Advocacy Centre (Sydney)
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
- Anti-discrimination Board of New South Wales
- Independent Commission Against Corruption
- NSW Commission for Children and Young People
- Ombudsman New South Wales
Nothern Territory
- Children's Commissioner Northern Territory
- Northern Territory Anti-discrimination Commission
- Ombudsman NT
Queensland
- Anti-discrimination Commission Queensland
- Queensland Family and Child Commission
- Queensland Ombudsman
South Australia
- Council for the Care of Children
- Equal Opportunity Commission
- Guardian for Children and Young People
- Ombudsman SA
Tasmania
- Commissioner for Children Tasmania
- Office of the Anti-discrimination Commissioner
- Ombudsman Tasmania
Victoria
- Commission for Children and Young People
- Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- Victorian Ombudsman
Western Australia
- Commissioner for Children and Young People
- Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia
- Ombudsman WA
International options
- UN Human Rights Council complaint procedure
- UN treaty-monitoring bodies
- Human Rights Committee (civil and political rights in the ICCPR)
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- Committee Against Torture (CAT)
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- UN Special Procedures
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the environment
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
- Special Rapporteur on the right to health
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of of hazardous substances and wastes
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
- Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- More Special Procedures here.