Human Rights Acts


Our vision: An Australia where everyone, no matter who they are or where they are, understands their rights, has them properly protected in our laws and has the power to take action to ensure they are upheld

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Our focus

 

  • We increase public understanding of human rights and grow support for protecting our rights in law. We develop and use campaigning and communications tools and advocacy to achieve this goal.

  • We support local efforts to strengthen existing Charters in Victoria, Queensland and the ACT and to secure Charters in states and territories that don’t yet have them.

 
 

What we’re working on

Key projects

Our team is working on these key projects

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Campaign for a national Human Rights Act
Campaign for a national Human Rights Act

Join the Human Rights Law Centre’s national campaign to create an Australian Human Rights Act to ensure human rights are properly protected in law at the national level.

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101 cases: How Charters of Human Rights make our lives better
101 cases: How Charters of Human Rights make our lives better

The Human Rights Law Centre has developed an online resource that shows 101 examples of how Charters of Rights that exist in the ACT, Victoria and Queensland are making peoples lives better.

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Charters of Human Rights in action

 

News, reports and explainers

Get the full story with our latest news and opinion pieces, human rights reports and explainers on key issues from our team

How you can help

Join the campaign for an Australian Human Rights Act

Donate to support the campaign for a national Human Rights Act

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