Australia’s only First Nations justice coalition Change the Record welcomes the Tasmanian Government’s commitment to enact laws ensuring children under the age of 14 years old will not be sent to youth prisons. However, the Coalition urges the Tasmanian Government to fully implement the advice of legal and medical experts and raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old to protect very young children from any harmful engagement with the criminal justice system.
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A letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member States of the United Nations in Geneva and New York from HRLC and other human rights organisations calling for Russia to be suspended from Human Rights Council.
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The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Federal Government to take additional measures to combat forced labour as Australia prepares to ratify the International Labour Organization (ILO) Forced Labour Protocol.
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The Morrison Government, with the support of the ALP, last night passed damaging and unnecessary laws in the lower house, that would give the Immigration Minister more power to cancel visas and deport people who live in Australia.
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Victoria’s anti-vilification laws will now provide stronger protections for everyone and signal that the Victorian community stands against all forms of vilification.
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Aboriginal leaders are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to address Australia’s discriminatory and punitive youth justice policies, due to serious violations of the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
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The Human Rights Law Centre urges the Crisafulli Government to improve the lives of every person in Queensland by strengthening human rights protections, following an independent review of Queensland’s Human Rights Act.
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Bail saves lives, but the Allan Government has rammed through dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will deeply harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and breach human rights.
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People could be stopped and searched at any time and for no reason for up to six months in designated areas of Victoria under expanded police search powers passed by the Allan Government today, says the Human Rights Law Centre.
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The Allan Government has proposed reviving the worst of dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and generations of Victorian children.
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Civil society groups have condemned the ongoing imprisonment of David McBride and called for urgent whistleblower protection reform, as the Afghan Files whistleblower’s appeal begins today in the ACT Court of Appeal.
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The Albanese Government has agreed to delay the deportation of a man to Nauru after he commenced legal proceedings on Friday. He is represented by the Human Rights Law Centre.
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Legal proceedings have today been filed for a man scheduled to be deported to Nauru on Monday, in the first exercise of the Albanese Government’s new third country deportation powers. The man is represented by the Human Rights Law Centre.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed the Minns Government for ramming laws through Parliament that give police sweeping new powers, could criminalise a wide range of activities near places of worship, including peaceful protests, and introduce a new criminal offence for inciting racial hatred.
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The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for stronger safeguards for the right to privacy and wide-ranging surveillance laws to be wound back.
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A national, enforceable right to housing could help solve the housing crisis and provide safety, dignity and security to every person in Australia, according to a new report by the Human Rights Law Centre and and UTS Faculty of Law.
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