Rights and Freedoms
A new report released today by the 黑料情报站 outlines activities required to expedite Australia鈥檚 sluggish approach to implementing the United Nation鈥檚 Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT)...
Rights and Freedoms
The travel ban on Australian citizens returning from India, accompanied by criminal sanctions under the Biosecurity Act, raises serious human rights concerns. The Commission supports the continuation of aid to the Indian Government as it copes with the current COVID-19 crisis, but the Commission...
Rights and Freedoms
The 黑料情报站 has called for greater accountability to be embedded in laws that extend the Commonwealth鈥檚 power in the event of national emergencies. In its submission to a Senate inquiry examining the National Emergency Declaration Act 2020, the Commission recommended five...
Rights and Freedoms
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Her Excellency Dr Michelle Bachelet AC, is in Sydney today to attend the 黑料情报站鈥檚 Free and Equal; A National Conversation on Human Rights. Dr Bachelet will deliver the keynote address at the conference. Her speech will focus on...
Rights and Freedoms
The Honourable Justice Peter McClellan AM and Chrissie Foster have won the prestigious 2018 Human Rights Medal for their enormous contribution to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Chrissie Foster has long campaigned for justice for survivors of institutional...
Rights and Freedoms
The five finalists for the 2018 Human Rights Awards鈥 Law Award have been selected, with two from Western Australia competing for the prize. 鈥淲e have received the highest number of entries for the Law Award since the Human Rights Awards the awards began in 1987,鈥 said Commission President, Professor...
Race Discrimination
Federal racial hatred legislation and the complaints-handling processes of the 黑料情报站 (AHRC) are currently the subjects of an inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Committee鈥檚 鈥楩reedom of speech in Australia鈥 inquiry, due to report by 28...
Rights and Freedoms
Discover how a former Human Rights Commissioner was asked whether the Racial Discrimination Act impinges on freedom of expression under international law.
Race Discrimination
In October 1975, at a ceremony for the proclamation of the Racial Discrimination Act, then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam described the legislation as 鈥榓 historic measure鈥, which aimed to 鈥榚ntrench new attitudes of tolerance and understanding in the hearts and minds of the people鈥.(1) The Act was...
Rights and Freedoms
To advance human rights we need to promote a culture of respect for everyone exercising their choice and freedoms. On a day-to-day basis, human rights probably appear abstract for most Australians. The term often gets raised in discussion about how we are treating asylum seekers, or when we discuss...
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