Indonesia's incoming president presents a promising opportunity for Australia to recast both its military and human rights relationship with our northern neighbour, writes the HRLC's Tom Clarke.
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The high court case surrounding the detention of 157 Tamil asylum seekers this year shows how Australia’s refugee policies are failing us, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
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Australia often promotes human rights at a diplomatic and economic level on the world stage, yet these calls will fail to ring true while we struggle to acknowledge or fully comprehend the meaning of rights at home, writes former Victorian AG Rob Hulls.
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In 1977, long time gay rights activist Jamie Gardiner wrote a brief seeking expungement of homosexual convictions. Last week, he sat in Victoria’s parliament and watched it happen. Here he reflects on his decades long journey from campaigning for the decriminalization of homosexuality in the 1970’s to the challenges that reamin today.
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Across the globe, civil society advocacy is increasingly being threatened by laws and practices that criminalise protest, prevent association, threaten funding and curtail independence, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.
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The HRLC’s Anna Brown reports on her recent advocacy work in Geneva and the passage of the crucially important resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity by the UN Human Rights Council.
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Scott Morrison's 'Cambodia deal' takes Australia further from the genuine regional solution that’s needed, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
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HRLC's Ruth Barson discusses the loss of the preexisting global consensus that torture is unequivocally immoral and illegal Interview with Juan Mendez, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s comment that Australia was an ‘unsettled or scarcely settled great south land’ prior to colonisation, could hardly have come at a more inopportune time: on the eve of NAIDOC week.
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Writing in the Herald Sun, the HRLC's Daniel Webb outlines the case against sending asylum seekers to places where they risk torture or death.
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It's a violation of Sri Lanka's migration law to leave the country unofficially. Most of the asylum seekers Australia is returning to Sri Lanka's navy will be charged – or worse, writes the HRLC's Emily Howie.
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The HRLC's Daniel Webb provides an overview of Scott Morrison's proposed changes that will significantly increase the risk of people being returned to countries where they face torture or death.
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A conversation about Australia's involvement in the US’s program of deadly drone strikes is long overdue, writes the HRLC's Emily Howie.
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We can reduce prison populations, prison spending and the crime rate at the same time, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.
Read MoreFor survivors of child sexual abuse seeking justice, the process of civil litigation can be re-traumatising, and present complex barriers, explains Knowmore's Executive Officer, Jenny Hardy.
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Appeals to freedom are essentially calls to prioritise a right to discriminate over fair and equal access to employment, education and services, writes Rachel Ball.
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The Human Rights Law Centre's Emily Howie writes that Australia has been silent on a United Nations push for an inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka because the Coalition is more concerned about "stopping the boats" .
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The Australian Human Rights Commission’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane, asks whether scrapping section 18C of the RDA will unleash a wave of humiliation of the vulnerable.
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Proposed voter ID laws will cause more problems than they will solve writes University of Queensland’s Graeme Orr and the HRLC’s Emily Howie.
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The reckless disclosure of the personal details of 10,000 asylum seekers adds another layer to the risk they may face – they could be further persecuted on return to their countries, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
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