COVID-19 and human rights: information and resources

Emerging and ongoing issues

COVID-19 lockdown and your rights

Correspondence

October 2022 – Letter to Health Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA about COVID-19 Management Revised Direction and Exemption (PDF 215KB)

October 2022 – Letter to Chief Health Officer about COVID-19 Management Direction 2022 and Exemption (PDF 218KB)

October 2021 – Feedback to the ACT Government on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for health care workers (PDF 304KB) (Word 101KB)

September 2021 – Letter to Attorney-General, Shane Rattenbury MLA, and Minister for Corrections, Mick Gentleman MLA, on the need to reduce custody numbers at AMC to manage COVID-19 risks (PDF 260KB) (Word 99KB)

September 2021 – Open letter calling for the COVID-19 Select Committee to be re-convened to provide scrutiny of emergency responses (PDF 195KB)(Word 104KB)

September 2021 – Letter to Health Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, on the need for human rights statements for public health directions (PDF 281KB)(Word 96KB)

June 2021 – Follow up letter to Minister for Business and Better Regulation, Tara Cheyne MLA and Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, raising continuing concerns about use of data collected by the Check In CBR app (PDF 228KB)(Word 94KB)

March 2021 – Letter to Minister for Business and Better Regulation, Tara Cheyne MLA, and Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith MLA, raising concerns about mandating use of the Check In CBR app (PDF 251KB)(Word 92KB)

Factsheets and guides

September 2021 – Factsheet on the rights of public and social housing residents: “Know your rights in quarantine”

September 2021 – Position Paper on Vaccine Passports (PDF 160KB)(Word 885KB)

September 2021 – Guide to reasonable limits under the Human Rights Act 2004: “Limiting rights: when can law and policy restrict rights?”

June 2020 – COVID 19 and human rights fact sheet (PDF 363KB)(Word 706KB)

Submissions

January 2022 – Submission to the Standing Committee on Health and Community Wellbeing’s inquiry into the Public Health Amendment Bill 2021 (No 2) (PDF) (Link to external site)

• See related op-ed: “Real-time oversight essential for proposed COVID detention powers“, Canberra Times, 11 Feb 2022)

November 2021 – Supplementary submission to the Select Committee on the COVID-19 2021 pandemic response (PDF) (Link to external site)

September 2021 – Submission to the Select Committee on the COVID-19 2021 pandemic response (PDF) (Link to external site)

May 2020 – Submission to the Select Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic response (PDF) (Link to external site)

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