Holding Australia to account at the UN: HRLC briefs UN Human Rights Committee...
Together with a group of leading human rights and community organisations, the HRLC has provided a private briefing to the UN Human Rights Committee on the state of human rights in Australia. On 30...
View ArticleTorture and Ill-Treatment: UN Committee against Torture review of Australia
Australia is scheduled to be reviewed by the UN Committee against Torture for its compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2013....
View ArticleImplementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Australia
In 2011, the Australian Government co-sponsored the UN Human Rights Council resolution which unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. These Principles seek to provide...
View ArticleAustralia must not deport asylum seekers to possible torture without due process
The Human Rights Law Centre has submitted an appeal for urgent action to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in relation to the situation of a group of eight Tamil asylum seekers who have travelled to...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Committee asks Australia to explain human rights record
The UN Human Rights Committee has asked Australia to explain how a range of laws, policies and practices are compatible with international human rights standards ahead of a major review of Australia’s...
View ArticleForeign Correspondent: Australia’s Role at the 11th Assembly of State Parties...
The 11th Session of Assembly of States Parties for the International Criminal Court took place in The Hague from 14–21 November 2012. At the Assembly, States Parties emphasised their ongoing commitment...
View ArticleUN experts call for explanation on Australia’s decision to cut payments to...
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women have expressed serious concerns that cuts to payments to single parents may be a...
View ArticleUN Communication lodged by Shani Cassidy
Tyler Cassidy was 15 years old when he was shot by members of Victoria Police in December 2008. Only 73 seconds elapsed between the police first approaching Tyler and him being shot dead, during which...
View ArticleThey didn’t even ask him his name: Complete statement from Shani Cassidy...
Individual Communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee Cassidy v Australia Statement of Shani Cassidy I have submitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee with the...
View ArticleMother takes Tyler Cassidy’s story to UN in push for increased oversight for...
The mother of Melbourne teenager, Tyler Cassidy, who was shot dead by police in 2008, has filed a communication with the United Nation’s Human Rights Committee to highlight Australia’s failure to...
View ArticleSerious concerns raised over Australia’s human rights record at UN
Serious violations continue to blight Australia’s human rights record, according to a joint NGO statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva by the Human Rights Law Centre’s...
View ArticleGuide for human rights defenders on domestic implementation of UN human...
The Human Rights Law Centre and the International Service for Human Rights have published a Guide for Human Rights Defenders on Domestic Implementation of UN Human Rights Recommendations. The Guide...
View ArticleUN asked to investigate Australia’s role in deadly US drone strikes
The United Nations has been asked to investigate Australia’s role in the death of civilians caused by the United States’ drone program. In a joint letter, the Human Rights Law Centre and Human Rights...
View ArticleAustralia’s treatment of asylum seekers to be condemned on the world stage
Australia is violating the fundamental human rights of people seeking its protection, the UN Human Rights Council will hear this evening. The Human Rights Law Centre will deliver a statement to the...
View ArticleAustralia should stand strong in support of the International Criminal Court...
Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) started work in 2002, the United Nations Security Council has taken an inconsistent and politicized approach to the Court’s work. The Council has used its...
View ArticleUnited Nations urged to investigate arbitrary public housing evictions
This piece was first published in The Mercury. Eighteen months ago a young mother of three was informed that she would be evicted from her Housing Tasmania home because “the tenancy hadn’t worked out”....
View ArticleHRLC Statement at the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
Statement at the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council 18 March 2014 Item 4: General Debate Statement by the Human rights Law Centre, Australia Mr President, We are deeply concerned about...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council told that Australia is violating international law by...
Australia violates its international law obligations by aiding the Sri Lankan government to intercept asylum seekers fleeing that country, the United Nations Human Rights Council has been told...
View ArticleAustralia’s punitive asylum seeker polices set for more scrutiny at UN
Australia’s unlawful and increasingly harsh and punitive treatment of asylum seekers arriving by boat will once again be brought the attention of the world’s peak human rights body this evening when...
View ArticleForeign Minister to arrive in Geneva as Australia is urged to publicly...
Australia has one last opportunity to publicly support a US-led initiative at the United Nations to end impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the final phases of Sri...
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