The Human Rights Law Centre told the Senate Committee tasked with investigating the Federal Government's response to COVID-19 that human rights must be at the centre of the Government’s actions, both now and into the future.

The Human Rights Law Centre made a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry about new laws that would allow the Morrison Government to stifle criticism of immigration detention, and cut off crucial support for the people detained.

The Human Rights Law Centre - along with the Asian Australian Alliance, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Get Up!, the Anti Defamation Commission and the Victorian Trades Hall Council - have made a joint supplementary submission to Victorian Government’s Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections.

The Human Rights Law Centre, along with an alliance of civil society and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and senior academics, have made a joint submission to the Senate Committee tasked with investigating the Federal Government's response to COVID-19.

The Human Rights Law Centre joined 11 international NGOs in a Joint Paper that outlines how member and observer States of the Human Rights Council can more systematically use civic space indicators as objective criteria for interventions at the Council.

The Human Rights Law Centre commented on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Consultation Paper relating to its proposed International Strategy on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery (Strategy).

The President of the UN Human Rights Council is consulting on a statement to be made to the Council on the human rights implications of COVID-19.

The Human Rights Law Centre has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability raising concerns about the use of harmful practices like solitary confinement on people living with disability in prisons.

Chief law-makers in Australia must promote the rights of children with a commitment to raise the age at which children can be locked up, the Human Rights Law Centre has told a Working Group tasked to consider raising the age of legal responsibility.

The Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) and Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) have made a joint submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into Australia’s corporate criminal responsibility regime. The HRLC supports proposals that would allow corporations to be better held to account for criminal misconduct overseas.Read the Human Rights Law Centre’s submission to the ALRC’s Review into Australia’s corporate criminal responsibility regime here.

Today the Human Rights Law Centre – along with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Get Up!, the Anti Defamation Commission and the Victorian Trades Hall Council – have made a joint submission to the Victorian Government’s Inquiry into Anti-Vilification Protections on how to enact best practice anti-vilification laws to stop hate in its tracks.Read the submission, Stopping hate in its tracks.

The Human Rights Law Centre’s submission on the Second Exposure Draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 argues that the bill fails to strike the right balance between freedom of religion, and rights to equal treatment, access to healthcare and non-discrimination on the basis of a range of other protected attributes.