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.

Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality (WAVE) and the Human Rights Law Centre will give evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry today calling for the Albanese Government’s dangerous and draconian proposed deportation laws to be rejected.

The Human Rights Law Centre and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency have slammed the decision made by the NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler today to extend the curfew in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

The Human Rights Law Centre has appeared before a Parliamentary Inquiry to call for comprehensive reform of Commonwealth whistleblowing laws so that whistleblowers are protected, not punished.

Shockwaves of the war in Gaza: Rights to speech, protest and information must be guaranteed globally to fight antisemitism and islamophobia.

Today, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan responded to the Yoorrook for Justice report. Prepared by the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, the Yoorrook for Justice report made 46 recommendations for crucial change of the state’s legal system. 

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Law Centre and Democracy in Colour have denounced the Albanese Government’s rushed law that would further punish people who have been unlawfully held in indefinite immigration detention.

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

The Human Rights Law Centre today urged the Victorian Government to reject any proposal that would require protesters to obtain a permit to peacefully gather and demand change on issues they care about.