Amy Sinclair, Chair of ALHR’s Business and Human Rights Sub-Committee, has written for the Guardian on migrant labour abuse and the importance of developing a National Action Plan to ensure that Australian businesses respect human rights. To read the full article click here.
ALHR has congratulated Qld Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath for taking a wise step in the rights direction by launching a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into a Human Rights Charter for Queensland. ALHR has been instrumental in the push for the inquiry since independent MP and Speaker Peter Wellington proposed it as part of his conditions for … Read More >>
The Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) condemns the mistreatment of Indigenous Aus- tralians held in detention and calls for a national bipartisan approach to address the levels of Indige- nous incarceration. “The idea that citizens can be held in custody for unpaid fines is Dickensian and shows systemic inequalities in the justice system” said … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) welcomes the report delivered by the Senate Community Affairs References Committee into Violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is helping lead the hussle on the international playing field of human rights next Monday as Australia appears for its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. ALHR National Committee member Benedict Coyne will be attending the hearing from 3:00pm – 6:00pm in … Read More >>
The Human Rights, International Law and Public Law and Government Committees with the support of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia invite you to a very special event to commemorate the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta and International Human Rights Day ‘From Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 2015 and Beyond’ … Read More >>
Day 5: International Franciscans, Edmund Rice International and CEDAW I spent the morning at attending an excellent course hosted by Edmund Rice International and the Franciscans International. The director of Edmund Rice International, Brian Bond, and Qld ERI delegates Jim Darcy and Anita Hendrie were gracious enough to host me. The course was … Read More >>
Day 4 – Part 2 – Business, Human Rights and a Well-Suited Mountain Trek Protest [Not the photo caption: 2:34pm. Café on Rue des Vermont. 120m from Palais Des Nations main entrance]. Jose Parra is a human rights consultant based in Geneva and has over 15 years of professional experience. He has worked … Read More >>
DAY 4 (Part 1) – UPR Post-Mortem NGO Round-table @ Aus Mission HQ Woken up at 4:30am by a phone call from Michael McKenna at The Australian but not in relation to the UPR in relation to our Burragubba judicial review case in Federal Court being heard on 23 – 24 November against the Adani … Read More >>
Angela Liantzakis a current Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of International Relations student at La Trobe University writes: Disability is experienced by one in five Australians. Many Australians with disabilities, as well as their families, friends and carers, are facing discrimination despite legislation to address this. The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (DDA), Australia’s key legislative mechanism … Read More >>
Academics and professionals from medical and legal fields watched “Hard to Believe”—a documentary-style film exploring unethical organ harvesting in China, at N.S.W. Parliament House in Sydney on October 28. The screening was supported by the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and followed by a Q&A session facilitated by N.S.W. Greens MP David Shoebridge. Nathan Kennedy, ALHR’s … Read More >>
DAY 3 – Part 3 – The BIG Game – Australia in the Hot Seat Finally, the moment had arrived, Australia at the “World Cup of Human Rights”. I entered the most courteous global Colosseum and assumed my position back in the press gallery after taking another requisite selfie with Jose in the main chamber … Read More >>
