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Media Release: 5 November 2026 Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has urged policymakers to carefully consider the human rights implications of Australia’s social media ban for children under 16, as the High Court considers constitutional challenges to the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024, heard this week.  Separate challenges brought by … Read More >>

Media release: For immediate Monday 2 November 2026 New South Wales is one step closer to a Human Rights Act, with the NSW parliament this week holding public hearings as part of its Inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2025.  The Inquiry comes after the Human Rights Act for NSW – an Alliance of more … Read More >>

Statement for Immediate Release 24 October 2026 Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is concerned by reports that a 16-year-old Noongar mother was shackled to a hospital bed while in police custody at Joondalup Health Campus in Western Australia. The allegations, if substantiated, raise grave concerns regarding Australia’s compliance with its obligations under core international … Read More >>

Media release For immediate release 13 October 2026 Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) welcomes the introduction of the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work Amendment (Equality in Treatment in Religious Schools) Bill by independent MP Allegra Spender and urges the Commonwealth Parliament to support reforms that will strengthen legal protections against discrimination in Australian educational … Read More >>

ALHR is proud to co-convene Human Rights Act for NSW – an Alliance of more than 120 legal and community organisations, religious bodies and trade unions. Our Alliance has spent years campaigning together for an inquiry into the introduction of a Human Rights Act for NSW. This week we are celebrating an important campaign win! … Read More >>

Today, a powerhouse alliance of 117 peak legal, community, and faith bodies from the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance will gather at NSW Parliament House to demand the state end its status as a “human rights outlier” and launch an urgent inquiry into a Human Rights Act. The sold-out forum – hosted by BEING – Mental Health … Read More >>

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) joins the chorus of human rights experts and organisations expressing concern at shocking alleged excessive uses of force against peaceful protesters in Sydney yesterday. These incidents must be subject to immediate, transparent and independent investigations. As an organisation committed to the protection of internationally recognised human rights, ALHR is … Read More >>

ALHR supports the calls of First Nations organisations and leaders for the potential mass casualty event in Boorloo/Perth on 26 January to be independently investigated as a potential terrorist act and as a hate crime. During the incident a man is alleged to have thrown an improvised explosive device/bomb made from a mixture of volatile … Read More >>