Climate justice through strategic litigation
We work in partnership with affected communities to develop legal claims to protect human rights and drive climate action.
Climate action through advocacy & policy solutions
Our advocacy aims to help re-frame the climate crisis within public debate as a human rights crisis. We shine a spotlight on the people and communities who will be impacted most and outlining the actions urgently needed from Australian governments and companies to address these impacts on people now and into the future.
Embedding the right to a safe & healthy environment in Australian law
Enshrining this right in Australian law would both strengthen the basis for government action to prevent climate & environmental harms and provide a more direct avenue for people and communities to take legal action if the right is ignored. Working with civil society partners, we will advocate for the introduction of the right to a healthy environment into existing and emerging Australian human rights law.
Establishing a healthy environment in state and territory human rights laws
The Human Rights Law Centre is working with partners and advocates for the right to a healthy environment to be included in state and territory human rights acts and charters, and for the introduction of a national Human Rights Act.
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Climate and Environmental Whistleblowing: Information Guide
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.
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Protest in Peril
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.
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Stop the SLAPP: Protecting Free Speech in Australia
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.
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Acknowledgement of Country
The Human Rights Law Centre acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Darug and Wadawurrung people where we work from.
We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
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