Feature article by West Australian and National Committee member John Southalan. The common law and human rights both provide important protections for individuals, groups and society in general. Along with this benefit, however, both human rights and the common law have shortcomings with their protections able to be limited or lost for many reasons, depending … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights is hosting a panel event with Mr Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision Australia), Mr Andrew Hewett (Executive Director of Oxfam) and Dr Susan Harris Rimmer (Manager of Advocacy and Development Practice at ACFID) discussing the current issues in international aid and development. Come along to hear our three very … Read More >>
ALHR added its name to a letter to Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, supporting a letter from Assange’s solicitor Gareth Pierce requesting assistance and information, and urging the Government to be active in ensuring that Mr. Assange’s rights to fair treatment and due process are not overridden. You can access both letters below. Letter to … Read More >>
The Commonwealth Parliament has recently been debating legislation to domestically ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was signed by the Australian government in 2008. Serious concerns have been expressed about the breadth of exemptions which the government has inserted into the implementing legislation, which would permit weapons to be stockpiled on Australian soil in … Read More >>
ALHR President Stephen Keim’s regular column in Brisbane Legal magazine. This month Mr Keim writes in support of the Centre for Policy Development’s Report ‘A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ CPD Report ‘A New Approach’
Buy your tickets now to the Queensland 2015 World Day Against the Death Penalty Dinner Australians Against Capital Punishment, Australian Lawyers For Human Rights and Reprieve Australia cordially invite you to our 13th annual dinner to recognise the World Day Against The Death Penalty raising awareness on the application of the death penalty for drug-related … Read More >>
ALHR President Stephen Keim SC was a guest speaker at the Amnesty International Conference in Brisbane on 6-7 October 2011. The Conference, under the theme ‘Change the World’, marked the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International. Mr Keim gave a workshop paper on ‘The Human Rights Framework: What Does it Offer?’, and participated in a panel … Read More >>
Speech by ALHR President Stephen Keim SC at the Amnesty International (Qld & Nth NSW Branch) Indigenous Rights Conference on 5 October 2011
ALHR Tasmania presents : Julian Burnside AO QC- ‘Who’s Afraid of Human Rights’ Greg Barns, Barrister- ‘Our Indigenous Human Rights Failure’ 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Stephen Keim SC, President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR), today called on the Australian Government to abandon its proposed amendments to the Migration Act. ‘These proposed amendments put Australia on an unprecedented collision course with its Convention obligations,’ he said. ‘While there are a number of elements of Australia’s refugee policy in recent … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights recently put forward a submission to the Attorney Generals consultation on its draft Baseline Study for a National Human Rights Action Plan.
Stephen Keim, President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, today, strongly urged Pacific Islands Forum Leaders to take action to encourage Fiji to lift Public Emergency Regulations and other restrictions on freedom of expression. Mr. Keim said: “Since April 2009, the Public Emergency Regulations have been used to suppress criticism of the military and intimidate … Read More >>
