To achieve the Close the Gap measures, the federal and territory governments need to engage in genuine dialogue with Aboriginal people. The chronic crisis of overcrowding can only be addressed through a collaborative approach, with a view to ultimately giving control back to Aboriginal communities.

Dragged from her cell. Handcuffed and paralysed. Hauled, dying, into the back of a police truck. This week Australia may be confronted, yet again, with images and footage of the justice system failing Aboriginal people, with devastating results.

The PNG government has conceded that the Manus facility must close. But while tearing down the fences would be a significant step, the real issue is not the future of the facility itself but of the 854 men trapped inside it.

Monday night's Four Corners episode also revealed that cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is endemic in its principal youth detention facility.

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.

If Australia is serious about protecting human rights, it should codify and enforce them, writes the HRLC's Ruth Barson on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The HRLC delivered two oral statements to the 29th session of the Human Rights Council.

I want to tell you about one client who was denied the chance to be part of our High Court case against off-shore processing.

The Australian government should come clean on its role in the US drone program before buying its own, writes the HRLC's Emily Howie.

The Human Rights Law Centre statement to the UN Human Rights Council highlighting concerns about Australia’s growing hostility to the UN as well as regression in key areas, including the recent attacks on the independence and functioning of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The federal government is actively undermining a range of vital checks and balances and stifling criticism of its actions. This is corrosive for democracy and human rights, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.

'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.