In a submission to the Federal Government COVID-19 Inquiry, the Human Rights Law Centre has called for an Australian Charter of Human Rights to put human rights at the heart of government decision-making and laws.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre and Digital Rights Watch have written to federal, territory and state health ministers urging them to adopt strong safeguards around the use of facial recognition technology in home quarantine.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Second National Review of Quarantine Arrangements.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre told the Senate Committee tasked with investigating the Federal Government's response to COVID-19 that human rights must be at the centre of the Government’s actions, both now and into the future.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre - along with the Asian Australian Alliance, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Get Up!, the Anti Defamation Commission and the Victorian Trades Hall Council - have made a joint supplementary submission to Victorian Government’s Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre, along with an alliance of civil society and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and senior academics, have made a joint submission to the Senate Committee tasked with investigating the Federal Government's response to COVID-19.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability raising concerns about the use of harmful practices like solitary confinement on people living with disability in prisons.
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