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Further information<br />
The <strong>Legal</strong> information access centre (Liac)<br />
can help if you need more information about the law,<br />
including cases and legislation. The service is free and<br />
confidential. Contact details on back cover.<br />
BOOks<br />
The law handbook, 10th ed, R Barry (ed), Redfern<br />
<strong>Legal</strong> Centre Publishing, 2007. See Chapter 19:<br />
Discrimination and Chapter 30: <strong>Human</strong> rights<br />
complaints to the United Nations. Available in all NSW<br />
public libraries in the Find <strong>Legal</strong> Answers tool kit; also<br />
available online at the State Library and public libraries.<br />
#Discrimination toolkit: your guide to making a<br />
discrimination complaint, T Balgi, M Osborne & F<br />
Pace, <strong>Legal</strong> Aid Commission NSW, 2007.<br />
#Finding a way: case studies in discrimination<br />
law, NSW Disability Discrimination <strong>Legal</strong> Centre,<br />
2007.<br />
#<strong>Human</strong> rights in Australia: treaties statutes<br />
and cases, M Flynn, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003.<br />
#International law, B Clarke, Lawbook Co Nutshell<br />
series, Lawbook co, 2003.<br />
#Protecting human rights in Australia: a<br />
community education kit, A Pettitt and P Ranald,<br />
Public Interest Advocacy Centre, 2004. Also available<br />
online at www.piac.asn.au/publications/hrkit.html<br />
#Retreat from injustice: human rights law in<br />
Australia, 2nd ed, N O’Neill, S Rice & R Douglas,<br />
Federation Press, 2004.<br />
#Using disability discrimination law in New<br />
South Wales, 2nd ed, NSW Disability Discrimination<br />
<strong>Legal</strong> Centre, 2007.<br />
Australian anti-discrimination law: text cases<br />
and materials, N Rees, K Lindsay & S Rice,<br />
Federation Press, 2008.<br />
The laws of Australia, loose-leaf service – Title 21:<br />
<strong>Human</strong> rights, P Baily (original editor), Thomson<br />
Lawbook co.<br />
Protecting rights without a Bill of <strong>Rights</strong>:<br />
institutional performance and reform in<br />
Australia, T Campbell, J Goldsworthy & A Stone,<br />
Ashgate, 2006.<br />
The no-nonsense guide to human rights, O Ball<br />
& P Gready, New Internationalist, 2006.<br />
# These books are part of the Law books for libraries<br />
collection available in some public libraries – check the<br />
Find <strong>Legal</strong> Answers website www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.<br />
gov.au for details<br />
jOurnals<br />
Australian journal of human rights<br />
University of New South Wales, <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> Centre,<br />
1994.<br />
The human rights defender<br />
Amnesty International 2000.<br />
<strong>Human</strong> rights defender<br />
University of New South Wales, <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> Centre<br />
1992.<br />
inTerneT siTes<br />
United Nations<br />
www.un.org<br />
This is the main website for the United Nations. Web<br />
addresses for other relevant UN bodies are also listed<br />
below:<br />
> United Nations <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
http://www.un.org/rights/<br />
> United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)<br />
http://www.unicef.org<br />
> United Nations Development Fund for Women<br />
(UNIFEM)<br />
http://www.unifem.org<br />
> International Service for <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
http://www.ishr.ch/<br />
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner<br />
of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
www.ohchr.org<br />
> United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of<br />
<strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> International Law section<br />
www2.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm<br />
> For the official texts of international human rights<br />
treaties<br />
www2.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm#intruments<br />
Textbook on international human rights, 2nd ed,<br />
Rhona Smith, Oxford University Press, 2005.<br />
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