Western democracies face backlash for allowing Iran and other authoritarian regimes to secure influential U.N. seats as the U ...

(Sydney) - The Australian government’s human rights sanctions process should be strengthened through better civil society engagement and bolder steps to sanction corrupt or rights-violating ...

Voluntary commitments Australia could make during its UN UPR appearance The Attorney-General’s Department has asked for feedback about potential voluntary commitments Australia could make during its ...

Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre published a report on Wednesday finding that the ability to protest in Australia has been eroded by anti-protest legislation over the last two decades. The report, ...

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights ...

A group of Palestinian human rights organisations launch legal action against the defence minister seeking transparency over Australia's arms exports to Israel.

This is the second time the group has attempted to access such documents, with their first attempt having been discontinued shortly after it was launched in November of 2023, ACIJ stated.

A ‘tough on crime’ political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem. When media reports emerged earlier this year about a new youth “crime wave” of ...

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by ...