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Linda Steele

Journal article

Law and disability ‘supported’ employment in Australia: the case for ending segregation, discrimination, exploitation and violence of people with disability at work

This article argues for transition away from Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs) on the basis that they further segregation, discrimination, exploitation, and violence against people with disability.
Report

Restrictive practices: a pathway to elimination


This report provides guidance to the Disability Royal Commission in relation to the Commission’s objective to reduce and eliminate restrictive practices. Restrictive practices are at odds with the human rights of people with disability and represent a significant form of violence and coercion.
Submission

Submission on sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls with disability to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability


This submission argues that women and girls with disability experience sexual and reproductive violence across their lives in relation to menstruation and reproduction, sexual identity and expression, intimate relationships, pregnancy, and parenting, and that this topic has been largely neglected since the Royal Commission commenced in April 2019.
Submission

Joint Submission: Article 4 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture

L. Ira

This submission specifically draws attention to the issues relevant to people with disability in the UN's Draft General Comment of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), which does not yet explicitly discuss the unique factors which underpin and shape the deprivation of liberty and treatment of people with disability.
Report

Complaint mechanisms: reporting pathways for violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation


This report provides guidance on the design of accessible and inclusive complaint mechanisms that work as pathways to report violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. It also identifies a series of improvements which could be made to existing complaints mechanisms.

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