Monday night's Four Corners episode also revealed that cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is endemic in its principal youth detention facility.
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Every day that the Manus Island and Nauru camps stay open, people suffer. Every day that Ferrovial operates those centres, it is exposed to risk, writes the HRLC's Rachel Ball.
Read MoreThe Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has received mixed reviews about its effectiveness as a mechanism to achieve positive human rights change. However, the case study of Australia demonstrates the capacity of the UPR to open space for dialogue and facilitate positive, albeit modest, human rights progress and monitoring.
Read MoreGovernments around Australia are again playing politics with the lives and liberty of Indigenous people writes the HRLC’s Ruth Barson and Julian Cleary from Amnesty International Australia.
Read MoreWe shouldn't underestimate the human toll of the 'homosexual conduct' laws. William Leonard from Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria and HRLC's Anna Brown explain how the Victorian Government's State Apology is also about publicly acknowledging and valuing the diversity of sexual expression.
Read MoreLaw Week is a time to pause and reflect on how well the law is serving the community, writes Managing Director of Victoria Legal Aid, Bevan Warner.
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The PNG Supreme Court's unanimous ruling highlights the harmfulness of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in the Manus Island detention centre.
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It’s been twenty-five years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, yet WA’s justice system remains utterly out of balance – it is destroying families and communities, writes the HRLC’s Ruth Barson.
Read MoreThe article below was written for the special 2016 Children Rights Edition of the HRLC Monthly Bulletin, Rights Agenda, developed in collaboration with the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre, King & Wood Mallesons and the Human Rights Law Centre.
Read MoreThis article was written for the special 2016 Children Rights Edition of the HRLC Monthly Bulletin, Rights Agenda, developed in collaboration with the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre, King & Wood Mallesons and the Human Rights Law Centre.
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NSW's new anti-protest laws are the latest example of governments in Australia steadily chipping away at our democracy's foundations, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.
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The Human Rights Law Centre report, Safeguarding Democracy, documents the unmistakable trend of governments at national and state level steadily chipping away at free speech, a free press, peaceful assembly, open government and the rule of law - some of the foundations of our democracy.
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Attacks on environmental groups are part of an unmistakable broader trend of governments eroding many of the vital foundations our democracy, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.
Read MoreKelsey Montgomery a law student at the University of Western Australia. She did a placement with the Human Rights Law Centre at the end of 2015 and has since written this piece looking at the legality of solitary confinement.
Read MoreIf Australia is serious about protecting human rights, it should codify and enforce them, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read MoreThese are the questions that should be plaguing the WA government after an inquest heard of a brutal and inhuman death in custody, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson.
Read MoreKumanjayi Langdon died alone in a Darwin police cell, after being locked up under the Northern Territory’s controversial “paperless arrest” laws. His crime was drinking in a public place, an offence that carries a $74 fine.
Read MoreLegislation to create safe access zones around abortion clinics is another welcome step towards ridding our society of all forms of violence against women.
Read MoreAustralia is locking up more people than ever before and many of Australia's prison practices breach the UN's new standards, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson.
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If we want justice for women in the workplace we need to see work-life balance as an important issue for men as well as women - Catherine Branson QC's 2015 Law and Justice Address.
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