Focus Area - United Nations — Human Rights Law Centre 2014 | Human Rights Law Centre

Posts in Focus Area - United Nations

NGO Report to UN Committee Against Torture 2014

Statement to UN Human Rights Council re over-imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

The Human Rights Law Centre lodged a statement to update the UN's Human Rights Council on the unacceptably high imprisonment rates of Indigenous peoples in Australia.

Focus Area - Indigenous rights, Focus Area - United Nations, International human rights mechanisms, Prisoners, ResourcesMichelleBennett18 September 2014

UN urged to probe Australia about its role in deadly US drone strikes

Australia needs to come clean about its role in the US’s deadly drone program in the wake of allegations that Pine Gap provides information used to locate targets of US drone strikes and the recent reports that two Australians were killed by drone strikes in Yemen.

Focus Area - Foreign policy, Focus Area - United Nations, NewsMichelleBennett27 May 2014

Statement to 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council supporting resolution 25/1 regarding investigations of war crimes in Sri Lanka

The HRLC and PIAC made a joint statement at the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2014 regarding the need to investigate war crimes in Sri Lanka.

Asia Pacific, Focus Area - Foreign policy, Focus Area - United Nations, International human rights mechanisms, Refugees and asylum seekers, ResourcesMichelleBennett27 March 2014