Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling on the Miles Government to overhaul the state’s outdated, punitive youth justice system and redirect funding towards a future where no child grows up in a prison cell.
Read MoreIn a joint submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Change the Record, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and the Human Rights Law Centre call on the Albanese government to end human rights abuses in prisons and police cells.
Read MoreSubmission on Australia’s state party report to the Committee Against Torture pursuant to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (75th Session)
Read MoreIn this joint submission by the Human Rights Law Centre, Change The Record and the NATSILS to the United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, we highlight Jurisdictions where little or no work establishing an OPCAT-compliant oversight mechanism for places of detention has been established; systemic concerns within and across jurisdictions; and facilities of particular concern where human rights abuses appear to be systemic, chronic and escalating.
Read MoreThis submission on the Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill sets out the medical, social and legal rationale for raising the age to at least 14.
Read MoreAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, human rights, legal and advocacy organisations called on the Andrews Government to end human rights abuse in Victorian prisons as part of the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System.
Read MoreThe Andrews government should use an inquiry into Victoria’s criminal justice system as the catalyst to finally end mass imprisonment, the Human Rights Law Centre argued in its evidence.
Read MoreOn the eve of the Tasmanian election, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Human Rights Law Centre called on the Tasmanian government to raise the age in response to a survey being undertaken by the Commissioner for Children and Young People to help inform an advice they are preparing to the Government on the issue.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre, the Change the Record coalition and the Caxton Legal Centre call for the Queensland Parliament to reject the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021, and instead substantially increase investment in services that support marginalised young people and their families.
Read MoreTwo of Australia’s leading human rights organisations - the Human Rights Law Centre and Amnesty International Australia - are calling on the Gutwein Government to prohibit the routine strip searching of children. The Tasmanian Government is currently considering laws that the two national organisations say miss the mark when it comes to the need to protect children from harm and prohibit routine strip searches.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre, along with an alliance of civil society and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and senior academics, have made a joint submission to the Senate Committee tasked with investigating the Federal Government's response to COVID-19.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability raising concerns about the use of harmful practices like solitary confinement on people living with disability in prisons.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
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