There’s no question that 2014 was a big year for LGBTI equality in Victoria, but there’s still unfinished business on our wish list for 2015 writes the HRLC’s Anna Brown.
Read MoreScott Morrison's Migration and Maritime Powers Bill is a truly appalling piece of legislation. Its repugnance is surpassed only by the tactics used to secure its passage, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
Read MoreWe cannot close the gap when so many indigenous men, women and children are behind bars, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson.
Read MoreHRLC Executive Director, Hugh de Kretser, delivered a speech at the Australian Communities Foundation’s end of year event. Here’s what he had to say.
Read MoreAustralia recently argued before the Committee Against Torture that violence against women does not fall within the Committee’s mandate. Australia was unequivocally wrong to do so – both legally and ethically, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson
Read MoreWhile the public outrage at Blessington and Elliot's crime was justified, the subsequent campaign of populist and retrospective law reform was not, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
Read MoreIt is a well-established principle of international human rights law that children shouldn't be locked up without any meaningful prospect of ever being released.
Read MoreBronson Blessington and Matthew Elliott were 14 and 16 respectively when they participated in the 1988 rape and murder of Janine Balding, one of the most shocking and abhorrent crimes in NSW history.
Read More'Why build prisons when we can build communities?' asks Carol, grandmother of Julieka Dhu, in the HRLC's Ruth Barson's opinion piece about Aboriginal deaths in custody.
Read MoreIndonesia'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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAustralia 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.
Read MoreIndonesia's incoming president presents a promising opportunity for Australia to recast both its military and human rights relationship with our northern neighbour.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWhat will it take for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' over-imprisonment trajectory to change course, asks the HRLC's Ruth Barson.
Read MoreAcross 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreScott Morrison's 'Cambodia deal' takes Australia further from the genuine regional solution that’s needed, writes the HRLC's Daniel Webb.
Read MoreThe apology by Victoria Police for their actions at the Tasty raid 20 years ago marks an historical turning point in relations between Victoria Police and the gay and lesbian community, writes the HRLC’s Anna Brown.
Read MoreHRLC'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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