No non-authoritarian country in the world has moved so far and so fast to put in place a security regime of the sort that Australia has adopted in recent weeks...
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre lodged a statement to update the UN's Human Rights Council on the unacceptably high imprisonment rates of Indigenous peoples in Australia.
Read MoreMy conviction happened in 1981 and I’ve lived with this secret for over 30 years now. I can’t pretend it hasn’t taken its toll on me and it’s an immense relief to learn that I am finally free of this black cloud.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre, in conjunction with the Wheeler Centre and Smart Justice, will be hosting a panel discussion on ‘Tackling Crime the Smart Way’.
Read MoreThe first international conference to present a thorough judicial and academic analysis of Victoria's human rights jurisprudence produced under the Victorian Human Rights Charter.
Read MoreWe are very excited to have as our international guest speaker Hina Jilani, a pioneering international human rights lawyer, a pro-democracy campaigner and a leading activist in Pakistan’s women’s movement.
Read MoreAustralia needs to come clean about its role in the US’s deadly drone program in the wake of allegations that Pine Gap provides information used to locate targets of US drone strikes and the recent reports that two Australians were killed by drone strikes in Yemen.
Read MorePanel discussion and Q&A about Australia's detention centre on Manus Island the and PNG National Court's inquiry.
Read MoreSydney and Melbourne: Join us for panel discussions regarding the Indonesian Presidential Elections featuring our special international guest, Rafendi Djamin, Indonesia’s Representative for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.
Read MoreThe HRLC's Daniel Webb has just returned from Manus Island. Join him and our panel for a briefing and Q&A session about the PNG National Court inquiry into Australia's detention centre.
Read MoreThe HRLC and PIAC made a joint statement at the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2014 regarding the need to investigate war crimes in Sri Lanka.
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