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Minns Government urged to scrap anti-protest, anti-democratic laws
The Minns Government must protect the right to peaceful protest in NSW and scrap draconian anti-protest laws, said the Human Rights Law Centre.
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Albanese Government condemned for continued attack on migrant and refugee communities
The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the Albanese Government for jeopardising the freedom and safety of thousands of people in the Australian community.
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Big tech regulation needed to stop disinformation spreading like wildfire in Australia’s democracy
The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to appoint an independent regulator to hold social media platforms accountable, after a new report by Reset.Tech Australia found that Australia's voluntary regulatory framework for big tech companies is failing.
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Rio Tinto faces biggest test of environmental and social credentials since Juukan Gorge with response to former Panguna mine’s impacts
Communities affected by pollution from Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine on Bougainville, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre are calling for the company to commit to funding long-term solutions so people can live safely on their land again.
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Miles Government endangering children in race-to-the-bottom on youth imprisonment
The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed the Miles Government for putting children’s lives in danger after plans were announced to remove detention as a last resort' from Queensland’s youth justice laws.
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Landmark EU law highlights need for stronger Australian corporate accountability laws
Australian civil society organisations have welcomed the EU’s new corporate due diligence law as a significant step forward for the protection of people and the planet and called on the Albanese Government to follow Europe's lead.
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Argentina: the scramble for lithium threatens the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Jujuy
Ten international civil society organisations with extensive experience in human rights and environmental issues warn that the lack of prior consultation of the 11 Indigenous Peoples of Jujuy in the approval process for the reform of the provincial constitution is incompatible with international human rights and environmental standards.
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High Court challenge to Albanese Government’s ongoing detention regime begins
The High Court will today hear a challenge to the Australian Government’s continued detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship.
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Senate Committee to hear evidence calling for the Deportation and Travel Ban Bill to be scrapped
Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality (WAVE) and the Human Rights Law Centre will give evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry today calling for the Albanese Government’s dangerous and draconian proposed deportation laws to be rejected.
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Alice Springs curfew criticised
The Human Rights Law Centre and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency have slammed the decision made by the NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler today to extend the curfew in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
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Whistleblowers must be protected to prevent next PwC tax scandal
The Human Rights Law Centre has appeared before a Parliamentary Inquiry to call for comprehensive reform of Commonwealth whistleblowing laws so that whistleblowers are protected, not punished.
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Statement on civil liberties infringements regarding the war in Gaza
Shockwaves of the war in Gaza: Rights to speech, protest and information must be guaranteed globally to fight antisemitism and islamophobia.
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Acknowledgement of Country
The Human Rights Law Centre acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Darug and Wadawurrung people where we work from.
We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
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