Our Mandate

Amparo advocacy is an independent advocacy organisation.

AMPARO Advocacy takes our mandate from the following important declarations, laws and principles which promote the rights of all people, as well as expectations for the lives of people from a nonEnglish speaking background who have a disability.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006

Disability Services Act, (Qld) 2006

Disability Discrimination Act, (Clth) 1992

AntiDiscrimination Act, (Qld) 1991

Racial Discrimination Act, (Clth) 1975

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons,1975

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948