ALHR commends the Federal Attorney-General, the Hon. Mark Dreyfus KC, on the establishment of a PJCHR Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry to investigate Australia’s human rights framework, with a focus on whether the Federal Government should introduce a federal human rights Act. For thirty years ALHR has called on Australia to comprehensively incorporate … Read More >>
More than 70 of Australia’s leading disability and civil society organisations have endorsed wide-ranging recommendations to reform the nation’s archaic and degrading migration health laws. The recommendations are part of a submission made by the Welcoming Disability Campaign to a public review of Australia’s migration health requirement being conducted by the Federal Government. The recommendations … Read More >>
The landmark High Court judgment, which ruled it is unlawful and unconstitutional for the Australian Government to detain people indefinitely in immigration detention, should mark the end of a brutal chapter in Australia’s history. Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) NSW Co-Convenor, Ms Stephanie Lee said the decision is an historic judgment that corrects some … Read More >>
On Friday 8 November ALHR collaborated with the University of Newcastle School of Law Centre for Law and Social Justice and the Human Rights for NSW Alliance to host a School Student Forum on the Right to a Healthy Environment. More than 60 students from the Newcastle region came to together to talk about what the … Read More >>
Leading human rights lawyers and disability justice experts are calling for an immediate end to indefinite detention laws in Australia that often see people with disabilities abused and victimised, their behaviour criminalised and often becoming victims of the criminal justice system rather than being managed through disability support services. The call follows the recent episode … Read More >>
Welcoming Disability, a joint civil society campaign led by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and Down Syndrome Australia, has welcomed the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendation to review discriminatory migration health requirements, which have been described as archaic and degrading by leading disability advocates. Under Australia’s current legal framework otherwise fully eligible visa applicants and … Read More >>
What’s next following the recognition of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021 and the UN General Assembly in 2022? Join us for a webinar examining the need to adopt a new International Covenant on the Right to a Healthy Environment. Australian Lawyers … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) welcomes the NSW Government’s announcement of a proposed two-strike diversion scheme for all small quantity drug possession as a step in the right direction. If implemented, people found in possession of small amounts of any illicit drug will receive a fine or access to health programs, rather than face … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) invites you to join us for a webinar on the intersection of sport, business and human rights. In the lead up to Australia and New Zealand hosting the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, there is no better time to discuss the increased call for human rights accountability amongst sport … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has highlighted serious flaws in the New South Wales Government’s Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Vilification) Bill 2023 (the Bill). The Bill seeks to include religious vilification as an offence under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977. Under the Bill, it would become unlawful to publicly invite hatred towards or severely ridicule … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) welcomes the release of the Report of the statutory review of the first three years of operation of the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 (the Act). The Report, led by Prof. John McMillian AO, makes 30 recommendations. ALHR made a submission to the public consultation as part of the … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is deeply troubled by the South Australian Government’s attempts to rush through new anti-protest laws, which threaten to breach Australia’s international human rights law obligations. The Summary Offences (Obstruction of Public Places) Amendment Bill 2023 (the Bill) seeks to introduce a number of changes, including increasing the penalty for … Read More >>
