Every year on June 20, the world celebrates the courage and contribution of refugees. Australia for UNHCR is marking this special day with a breakfast celebration: Date: Friday 20 June 2014 Time: 7.00am – 9.00am Where: Grand Ballroom, Lower Level, The Westin Sydney Ticket Price: $110 Corporate Table of 10: $2,500 (includes a tax deductible donation) Book your … Read More >>
Remedy Australia is Australia’s newest human rights NGO, launched on the 20th anniversary of 1994’s landmark Toonen v Australia case. Remedy Australia is a supporter-based organisation with a mandate to get Australia to comply with UN decisions on human rights complaints, both past and future. Australia is obliged to remedy individual violations and ensure they never happen again. … Read More >>
In January 2014, the NSW Government proposed a reform package to deal with drug and alcohol related violence. That package included proposals for mandatory sentencing on a range of offences. ALHR NSW campaigned vigorously against the mandatory sentencing, issuing a press release (available here) and writing to every member of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights has identified deficiencies in the inquiry which the Commonwealth Attorney-General has set the Australian Law Reform Commission in relation to ‘traditional rights, freedoms and privileges’. Members of ALHR are together formulating ALHR’s submission, and have identified various problems with the TOR which are fully explained in a paper by Dr Tamsin Clarke which … Read More >>
Scott Morrison’s remarks yesterday continue to reveal the Abbott government’s ongoing violation of the Convention on the Status of Refugees, Nathan Kennedy, President of ALHR said today.
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has criticised the Australian Government’s decision to cease funding a national Disability Discrimination Commissioner. The Government’s budget, announced earlier this week, declared it will make ‘savings … by reducing the number of special-purpose Commissioners [at the Australian Human Rights Commission] from the current seven to six’.
Amnesty International’s Kate Schuetze and the Human Rights Law Centre’s Daniel Webb recently returned from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea where they were participating in the PNG National Court case assessing the lawfulness of the Manus Island detention centre. Following our sold out Melbourne event, we hope you can … Read More >>
The 5th May 2014 marks the 1st anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. ALHR, together with 11 other prominent NGO’s have written to the Federal Attorney General and Minister for Foreign Affairs urging Australia to ratify the Optional Protocol. A response … Read More >>
Below is an overview of the meeting between DFAT Deputy Secretary Gillian Bird and Australian NGO representatives to discuss the outcome of the recent Human Rights Dialogue with China.
