Civil society groups and unions have welcomed the Albanese Government’s establishment of an Anti-Slavery Commissioner, but urged the Government to strengthen the Commissioner’s powers and resourcing.

Formerly incarcerated women, trans and gender diverse people alongside Flat Out and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling for governments across the country to permanently prohibit the practice of strip searching people in Australian prisons.

Civil society groups have expressed grave concern and alarm after military whistleblower David McBride was sentenced to almost six years’ imprisonment in the ACT Supreme Court. 

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Australian Government’s ongoing detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship, meaning that up to 200 people may remain indefinitely detained, said the Human Rights Law Centre today.

The Minns Government must protect the right to peaceful protest in NSW and scrap draconian anti-protest laws, said the Human Rights Law Centre.

The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the Albanese Government for jeopardising the freedom and safety of thousands of people in the Australian community.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to appoint an independent regulator to hold social media platforms accountable, after a new report by Reset.Tech Australia found that Australia's voluntary regulatory framework for big tech companies is failing.

Communities affected by pollution from Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine on Bougainville, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre are calling for the company to commit to funding long-term solutions so people can live safely on their land again.

The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed the Miles Government for putting children’s lives in danger after plans were announced to remove detention as a last resort' from Queensland’s youth justice laws.

Australian civil society organisations have welcomed the EU’s new corporate due diligence law as a significant step forward for the protection of people and the planet and called on the Albanese Government to follow Europe's lead.

Ten international civil society organisations with extensive experience in human rights and environmental issues warn that the lack of prior consultation of the 11 Indigenous Peoples of Jujuy in the approval process for the reform of the provincial constitution is incompatible with international human rights and environmental standards.

The High Court will today hear a challenge to the Australian Government’s continued detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship.