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The announcement of an inquiry into disability and migration by the Joint Standing Committee on Migration heralds a growing understanding that the application of the Health Requirement under the Migration Act 1958(Cth), Migration Regulations 1994(Cth) and relevant procedural guidelines is flawed. This paper will examine the Health Requirement in reference to Australia’s international human rights … Read More >>

ALHR now launches its national competition for the best submission to the National Human Rights Consultation.

Prepared for the UN Human Rights Committee: Consideration of Australia  23-24 March 2009 Recent changes made by the current Australian Government have indicated a positive shift towards greater recognition and implementation of Australia’s international obligations towards boat arrivals, especially our human rights obligations. Despite the improvements that have been made, ALHR remains concerned at the … Read More >>

ALHR President writes an editorial in The Canberra Times headed “Some lawyers take cheap shots, some even work pro bono”. Click here to read the article

ALHR President talks to IPS about Australia’s rejection of Bush administration requests to accept a number of detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Click here to read article

ALHR President, Susan Harris Rimmer, has reviewed “Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia”. Human Rights Overboard is essentially a collection of the oral testimony and written submissions from the People’s Inquiry into Detention, established by the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work in 2005. The Inquiry was partly in response to … Read More >>

ALHR, together with a number of other organisations, has released a package of initiatives which should be implemented by the Australian Government on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.