International Law
Ten Australians have filed a legal case with the United Nations claiming Australia' federal government is violating their human rights by continuing to support coal and gas companies to fuel climate e...
Australia stands at a turning point. The defeat of the 2023 Voice Referendum did not simply end a debate; it exposed how uncomfortable many Australians still are with the truth.
Australia's human rights framework — which allows children as young as 10 to be incarcerated in most jurisdictions — has been sharply criticised by the international community, with critic...
The United Nations Human Rights Council has criticised Australia for the "almost constant increase" in the number of people held on remand and the country's "very low age of criminal responsibility"...
Our people have always told the truth about what January 26 means. Dispossession. Violence. Stolen Land. Stolen children. Attempted cultural and linguistic erasure.
Serious concerns persist over the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, children, and migrants, despite Australia's criminal justice system's safeguards against arbitrary dete...
Economic empowerment of Indigenous communities, much touted by the federal government, is hindered by the absence of constitutional recognition and constitutionally protected rights for First Nations...
The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
When our team from the Australian National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice (NCRTJ) travelled to Canada, we were struck by how visible and structured their national approach to truth-telli...
"My daughter wasn't protected."That is how Kimberley mother Irene Davey describes the failure of Australian authorities — a failure she is now taking to the United Nations.
Aboriginal Australia is at a crossroads. Traditionally federal Labor governments have offered more on Indigenous policy than the Coalition. There is a dawning realisation among many of us that these d...
Deep-sea mining is set to go ahead in Tonga after the Pacific Island's government committed to a new agreement. The revised deal was signed on Monday with Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd, a subsidiary of Th...
The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is an annual meeting at the UN Headquarters in Geneva focussing on Indigenous people's rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of...