MEDIA RELEASE: Wednesday, 5 December 2012 Aboriginal families cannot afford to lose Strong Aboriginal Families, Together ?The Northern Territory Government is taking child rights in the Territory backwards?, said Stephen Keim, President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (?ALHR?). ?It is disappointing that the Government has rejected the recommendations of the ?Growing Them Strong Together … Read More >>
Submission is attached.
26 November 2012 Secretariat Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse PO Box 6555 CANBERRA ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA By email: royalcommissionsecretariat@pmc.gov.au Dear Secretariat, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia 1. On behalf of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR), I provide the following submission in response to the Consultation Paper dated … Read More >>
Submission is attached.
Back in July ALHR President, Stephen Keim SC, wrote to the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and Foreign Minister Bob Carr to seek assurances that the Australian government is undertaking appropriate advocacy on behalf of the Australian citizen, Julian Assange, whose safety and rights to due process have appeared to be … Read More >>
The Native Title Amendment Bill 2012 proposes a number of amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 but falls short of what is required to remedy significant shortcomings in Australia’s treatment of Indigenous peoples’ rights in relation to their traditional and ancestral lands. This is a particularly important human rights issue given Australia’s commitments under … Read More >>
Queensland Parliament is calling for Submission for the Sustainable Planning and other Legislation Amendment Bill
MEDIA RELEASE: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 Closing the Gap Fails the Human Rights Test Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (?ALHR?) welcomes the release of the first report from the Northern Territory (NT) Coordinator-General, Ms Olga Haven on 24 September 2012. The report explores in depth government expenditure, programs and service delivery in the NT and … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has welcomed the opportunity provided by the INSLM to comment on powers relating to questioning warrants and questioning and detention warrants under the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 and control orders and preventative detention orders under the Criminal Code Act 1995. ALHR holds significant concern about the legislative … Read More >>
On 25 September 2012, 80 leading legal, human rights, health, community and women?s organisations wrote to the NSW Attorney General calling on him to retain and strengthen the NSW compensation scheme for victims of violent crime. ALHR is proud to have added its name to the list of signatories. The full text of the letter … Read More >>
ALHR called for greater oversight and monitoring of all places of detention in accordance with international human rights standards, after a recent Aboriginal death in custody was caused by NT Police ?lack of care?. The NT Coroner delivered his findings in Alice Springs, on Monday after an inquest into the death of Kwementyaye Briscoe, a … Read More >>
