The Human Rights Law Centre is working with partners and advocates for the right to a healthy environment to be included in state and territory human rights acts and charters, and for the introduction of a national Human Rights Act. 

The Human Rights Law Centre is advocating to change unjust, regressive bail laws that are driving up the number of unsentenced people in prison across Australia. These dangerous laws are increasing the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prisons and targeting women experiencing disadvantage.

The Human Rights Law Centre is supporting the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) in their intervention in the coronial inquest into the police-shooting death of Warlpiri and Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker. The Human Rights Law Centre is assisting NAAJA to highlight systemic injustices experienced by Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, including systemic racism in policing.

Children belong in our schoolyards and playgrounds, never in police or prison cells. The Human Rights Law Centre was part of founding the #RaisetheAge campaign, a national campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years old Australia-wide.

Join the campaign for an Australian Human Rights Act. Together we can build a fairer Australia where our human rights are respected and protected.

Big corporations shouldn’t be allowed to manipulate politicians to put their profits ahead of our wellbeing. The Human Rights Law Centre advocates for changes to laws and policies to end the cycle of corporate influence in our political system. 

For almost five years, the Australian government refused to process Abdullah and Fatima’s family visa application, so the Human Rights Law Centre supported them to reunite the family together.

The safety and privacy of people seeking reproductive healthcare is now protected across Australia thanks to safe access zone laws.

The Human Rights Law Centre supported the advocacy of the family Tanya Day who died in police custody, to secure a commitment from the Victorian Government to replace public intoxication laws with a public health response.

The Human Rights Law Centre produced the 2020 Civil Society Report to scrutinise Australia's human rights record during the Universal Periodic Review. It was endorsed by 200+ organisations.

Freedom of speech and the right to protest are essential for a healthy, vibrant democracy. In October 2017, in a landmark decision, the High Court protected these fundamental values, ruling that Tasmania’s anti-protest laws violated Australia’s Constitution. 

In November 2016, the Victorian Andrews Government decided to use the Grevillea Unit in the Barwon maximum security adult prison as a youth jail and started sending children as young as 15 there. The Human Rights Law Centre used legal action to challenge this under Victoria’s Human Rights Charter.