Human Rights
Governments are refusing scrutiny of their prisons because they know "human rights abuses are happening regularly inside these horror houses", says federal Senator Lidia Thorpe.
The Northern Territory and Queensland governments' refusal to meet United Nations officials during their visits to youth detention centres raises questions about the "transparency, accountability and...
An urgent complaint has been lodged with the United Nations in relation to the Northern Territory's introduction of the Care and Protection of Children (Every Child Matters) Act 2026.
The Federal Government must respond to Queensland's new bail laws, the peak body for Indigenous legal services says, arguing that more children will be locked up for longer under the latest reforms.
"With a single stroke of a pen, he can undo all the achievements we have accomplished in these almost four years," said Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Eloy Terena, regarding a possible victo...
The United Nations has heard Indonesia reject the latest claims of systematic human rights abuses inside West Papua. Earlier this month representatives from Vanuatu and Solomon Islands urged the UN ge...
New laws introduced by the Queensland Government which would allow prison officers to forgo "additional human rights assessments" on the grounds they impose an "unnecessary administrative burden" has...
Systemic issues in child protection involving Indigenous children have not been raised with the government at the United Nations, the Prime Minister says, despite multiple UN reports highlighting conc...
Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has counted 109 people have officially been killed or seriously injured in violence from the ongoing armed conflict across the West Papua territory in t...
Western Australia's South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council has lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission concerning public comments made by Senator Pauline Hanson about...
Kurin Minang human rights expert and law academic Dr Hannah McGlade has lodged a formal complaint with Australian Human Rights Commission over Pauline Hanson's claim Aboriginal people are "the most pr...
The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls has urged every federal parliamentarian to support Senator Lidia Thorpe's Crimes Amendment (Prohibiting Shackling During...
Victoria's former Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People will commence work as a Professor of Practice in Monash University's Law Faculty.