The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the ACT Government to strengthen its proposal to add the right to a healthy environment to the Human Rights Act 2004.

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed recommendations by an independent review into the law that enabled the prosecutions of Witness J, Witness K and Bernard Collaery to be shrouded in secrecy, and called on the Attorney-General to urgently implement the review's findings.

Ned Kelly Emeralds, an Iranian man who has been detained for over a decade while seeking asylum, has won his challenge against his ongoing detention. Ned’s case is the first to be heard since the High Court recently ruled that indefinite detention was unlawful.   

A joint statement signed by over 100 health, legal, social, community services providers, advocates and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations today reiterated calls for Attorneys-General to stop jailing 10 year old children and raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old, with no exceptions.

The undersigned organisations, human rights groups, and defenders are calling for the Indonesian Government to end its judicial harassment against prominent human rights defenders, Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar as well as to further protect all human rights defenders in the country.

New polling has found that Australians believe the government is prioritising the views of big business over ordinary people and want the Albanese Government to close secret donation loopholes.

Kumanjayi Walker’s family are a step closer to the truth behind his death, after Coroner Armitage yesterday dismissed a request from former Constable Zachary Rolfe to remove  herself from the inquest.

A legislated duty of care to current and future Australian children would positively accelerate the Australian Government’s action to tackle climate change and create a fairer and more sustainable future, said the Human Rights Law Centre.

NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Human Rights Law Centre and Australian Democracy Networkare deeply concerned about the heavy-handed police repression of a peaceful protest nearPort Botany.

Ned Kelly Emeralds, an Iranian man who has been detained for over a decade while seeking asylum, was in the Federal Court of Australia for a hearing to challenge his ongoing detention.

The Human Rights Law Centre and Australian Democracy Network have today called for governments across Australia to adhere to international standards and human rights law to ensure protest rights are protected in the Declaration of Our Right to Protest.

Civil society groups have raised concerns about the democratic impact of the prosecution of David McBride, after the Afghan Files whistleblower pleaded guilty to three charges.