The Albanese Government’s mandatory minimum sentences are not the right tool to protect people and communities from acts of hate and racism, says the Human Rights Law Centre.

Whistleblowers raising concerns about harmful digital platforms and holding technology companies to account will be supported by a new practical guide released by the Human Rights Law Centre, Reset Tech Australia, Psst and Digital Rights Watch. 

The Human Rights Law Centre condemns the violent, antisemitic attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on 6 December 2024.

Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre strongly condemn the Crisafulli Government for ramming through laws to lock up even more children in Queensland’s overcrowded and unsafe police watch houses and youth prisons. The laws will disproportionately imprison Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and children with disabilities.

Communities living with the ongoing devastation from Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine in Bougainville are calling on the company to commit to funding remediation and addressing public safety risks, after a major independent investigation funded by the company confirmed life-threatening, ongoing social, environmental and human rights impacts from the mine.

Governments across Australia are being urged to enact comprehensive legislation to stop corporations, wealthy individuals and governments misusing Australia’s legal system, in a new report released by the Human Rights Law Centre today. 

Civil society groups and unions have welcomed proposed changes to strengthen Australia’s modern slavery law, including through the  introduction of penalties, but are calling on the Albanese Government to also introduce a legal requirement for companies to take action to prevent modern slavery.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the Albanese Government to widen reforms to address the growing threat of hate speech, discrimination and vilification.

The Human Rights Law Centre and refugee advocates have criticised the Albanese Government’s cruel attacks on migrant and refugee communities, after some of the most brutal migration laws Australia has seen in years were passed overnight.

Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre have denounced the Crisafulli Government’s gob-smacking laws that will mean ten-year-old children will face adult sentences and grow up in prison cells. The shameful changes will further exacerbate the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in watch houses and prisons. 

Human rights, unions and civil society groups are calling on the Albanese Government to take stronger action on modern slavery, after the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery sounded the alarm in a report released today.