An urgent United Nations complaint has been made about Australia’s discriminatory youth justice systems and how they seriously violate the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

The Human Rights Law Centre calls on all parties and independents at the 2025 Federal Election to put human rights at the heart of government decision making and improve the dignity, equality, and fair access to justice for all people in Australia.

Commissioned by the Human Rights Law Centre and authored by Professor Jessie Hohmann from the UTS Faculty of Law, this new report shows how an Australian Human Rights Act could person should have a safe, secure and healthy place to call home, regardless of their postcode or bank balance.

Whistleblowers make Australia a better place by speaking up about wrongdoing and corruption. The Human Rights Law Centre's Whistleblower Project is making it easier for you to access the legal information about your rights while considering whether or not you need to make a disclosure. Our team have produced these legal information guides for public and private sector workers.

Whistleblowers raising concerns about harmful digital platforms and holding technology companies to account will be supported by a new practical guide, released by The Human Rights Law Centre, Reset Tech Australia, Psst and Digital Rights Watch. 

The Human Rights Law Centre is working with communities in Bougainville to seek justice for the environmental devastation left by Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine. A major independent investigation, the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment has been released today and confirms what communities have said for decades: they are living with an environmental and human rights disaster.

Stop the SLAPP shines a light on the rise of Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) being used in Australia by the powerful and the wealthy.

The Prison to Deportation Pipeline, a new joint report from the Human Rights Law Centre and the University of Melbourne has found that visa cancellations on character grounds has increased tenfold in last ten years.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to combat misinformation which is poisoning Australia's democracy as part of a new report: Rights-First: Principles for Digital Platform Regulation.  

With the rising influence of fossil fuel industries over Australian politics, the Human Rights Law Centre has produced the Climate and Environmental Whistleblowing Information Guide, a practical resource to support any person to raise concerns about climate and environmental wrongdoing in Australia.

The Protest in Peril report analyses and compiles every single bill across Australia over the last two decades which has impacted upon the right to protest, and has found the right to protest is being steadily eroded in Australia.