Disability Equity and Rights
The call for public submissions was open from 1 November to 15 December 2023. More than 90 written submissions were received as well as one set of video messages. For a summary of both the consultations and the submissions received, please see Summary of Consultations.
All submissions were prepared independently and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government.
DFAT has not edited the submissions prior to publishing. Submitters were able to request that all or part of a submission be treated as confidential. Some personal information has been redacted at the request of the author(s).
DFAT has not published submissions that included offensive, discriminatory, illegal or defamatory content and/or contained threatening or aggressive language. See DFAT’s website disclaimer.
By making a submission, the author(s) agreed to their submission, or part thereof, being used by the Commonwealth of Australia for Commonwealth purposes.
DFAT was granted permission to publish the below listed submissions.
Submissions
- ActionAid Australia [PDF 1.3 MB]
- Advocacy Center for Disability, Women and Children Foundation (SAPDA), Indonesia [DOCX 34 KB]
- ASEAN Disability Forum [DOCX 26 KB]
- Atullya Foundation, Nepal [DOCX 28 KB]
- Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) [PDF 532 KB]
- Australian Disability and Development Consortium (ADDC) [PDF 458 KB]
- Australian Red Cross [PDF 2.6 MB]
- Australian Sporting Alliance for People with a Disability [PDF 164 KB]
- AVI (Australian Volunteers International) [PDF 950 KB]
- BRAC [DOCX 29 KB]
- Besipa'e Foundation, Indonesia [PDF 499 KB]
- Burnet Institute [PDF 214 KB]
- Blind Visually Impairment Solomon Islands [DOCX 51 KB]
- ChildFund Australia [PDF 254 KB]
- Championing for Inclusive Communities in Kenya [DOCX 71 KB]
- Community Volunteers from Western Region of Fiji [PDF 838 KB]
- Continual Engine (Debangku Sharma), India [DOCX 28 KB]
- Disability Rights Advocacy Fund [PDF 205 KB]
- Disability Service Center, Lao PDR [DOCX 28 KB]
- Disabled Peoples' Association of Solomon Islands [DOCX 76 KB]
- DT Global [PDF 583 KB]
- Fiji Association of the Deaf [DOCX 194 KB]
- Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation [PDF 223 KB]
- GHD [DOCX 28 KB]
- Group of rehabilitation and assistive technology professionals from Australia and the Pacific [PDF 359 KB]
- Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities (DP Hanoi) [PDF 337 KB]
- Himpunan Wanita Disabilitas Indonesia [DOCX 43 KB]
- Humanitarian Advisory Group [PDF 200 KB]
- International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment Pacific [DOCX 38 KB]
- International Disability and Development Consortium Inclusive Health Task Group [DOCX 396 KB]
- International Labour Organization [PDF 144 KB]
- International Labour Organization, Bangladesh [PDF 273 KB]
- Inclusion International [PDF 694 KB]
- Indonesian Mental Health Association [DOCX 32 KB]
- International Planned Parenthood Federation [PDF 321 KB]
- K. Sriram, India [DOCX 36 KB]
- Kimberley Meagher, Australia [PDF 165 KB]
- Mary MacKillop Today [PDF 144 KB]
- Metro Manila Persons with Disability Vendors Association, Philippines [PDF 438 KB]
- Motukoita Indigenous Disabled Persons' Association, Papua New Guinea [PDF 5695 KB]
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia [PDF 278 KB]
- National Commission on Disabilities (KND), Indonesia [DOCX 25 KB]
- National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Australia [PDF 453 KB]
- Northern Coalition for Disability Rights, Papua New Guinea [DOCX 212 KB]
- Nuanua O Le Alofa (NOLA), Samoa [PDF 3 MB]
- Organisation for Persons with Disability – Northfly District, Papua New Guinea [PDF 974 KB]
- Pacific Research in Inclusive and Specialist Education (PRISE) [DOCX 31 KB]
- Palladium [PDF 163 KB]
- Parents of Children with Disabilities, National Capital District Diff-Abilities Advocacy Agency, Papua New Guinea [PDF 448 KB]
- Pelita Indonesia [DOCX 25 KB]
- Rights and Inclusion Australia [PDF 126 KB]
- Sexuality Education, Counselling, Consultancy Agency, Australia [PDF 252 KB]
- Sightsavers [DOCX 113 KB]
- South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment [PDF 150 KB]
- Strategic Development Group, Australia [DOCX 325 KB]
- Spinal Injury Association Fiji [DOCX 103 KB]
- Transforming Communities for Inclusion (TCI Global) [PDF 302 KB]
- The Fred Hollows Foundation [PDF 850 KB]
- UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [PDF 823 KB]
- UN World Food Programme [DOCX 38 KB]
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [DOCX 42 KB]
- United Nations Development Programme [PDF 453 KB]
- United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) [DOCX 96 KB]
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) [DOCX 44 KB]
- Universities Enable, Australia [DOCX 44 KB]
- Vanuatu Skills Partnership [DOCX 73 KB]
- Water for Women [DOCX 74 KB]
- WaterAid Australia [DOCX 42 KB]
- World Vision Australia [PDF 225 KB]
Contact
You can contact DFAT’s Disability Equity and Rights Section by emailing Disability.Equity@dfat.gov.au