Two of Australia’s most famous legal eagles are set to team up to prosecute the case for an Australian Human Rights Act at an ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission conducts ongoing monitoring of conditions in detention to ensure that Australia’s immigration detention system complies with our obligations under international ...

When president Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the 1941 State of the Union address he spoke of four essential human freedoms people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy. The very first of these was ...

Join leaders, experts and advocates from across Australia for a historic national forum that will pave the way for a much-needed overhaul of Australia’s human rights framework, including the ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission, in partnership with Intopia, is updating its Disability Discrimination Act Web Advisory Note. The current version of the Note (version 4.1) is from 2014 and can ...

Report into arbitrary interference with family and deprivation of the right to enter one’s own country ...

All people are entitled to protection of their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, regardless of how or where they arrive in Australia. Australia has ratified the Convention Relating to ...

and access to government services and information. Australia's hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000 provided interesting tests of progress in moving towards a society that includes ...

Activity sheet: Getting to know the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Child friendly version) PDF or Word Note that the Activity sheet: Rights and wants provides an introduction to this activity.

begin by acknowledging the Kaurna people on whose ancestral land we meet today.

(These are speaking notes used by the Commissioner at a series of events in all Australian capitals as well as Alice Springs through March 2003. Speeches as delivered included acknowledgement of State ...

with this document is that it is non-binding. It does not create legal obligations on governments to implement it. It does not have the same provision for reporting and accountability built of us by ...