Stephen Keim and Eve Lester, “Gillard the Myth Maker” article published in the Canberra Times about Prime Minister Gillard’s proposal for a regional asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor, delivered in a speech to the Lowy Institute on 6 July 2010.
ALHR response to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s Report on its Inquiry into Migration Treatment of Disability, tabled 21 June 2010 report recommendations on the “health requirement” for visa applicants. ALHR made a submission to this inquiry on 19 July 2010.
ALHR comment on the implementation of the CESCR committee’s concluding observations on Australia’s periodic report under ICESCR.
ALHR submission to the Senate Standing Committee on the Scrutiny of Bills ‘Inquiry into the future direction and role of the Committee’. This submission addresses the issue of the Committee’s role in the light of the present government’s proposals to establish a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as part of its Australia’s Human Rights … Read More >>
A corrective to Prime Minister Gillard’s policy on asylum seekers.
Press Release about ALHR submission to Senate Scrutiny of Bills Commmittee on Inquiry into the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010.
Stephen Keim and Catherine McGree “The Right to Health in Australia should be Equal” published in Brisbane Legal. Discusses the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, on his visit to Australia. The report was released on 3 June 2010.
Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal peoples in NSW Australian Lawyers for Human Rights congratulates the NSW Government for formally recognising the State’s first people in the NSW Constitution. The ALHR also congratulates all those involved in making this important change to the Constitution including the NSW Aboriginal Land Council. ?It represents a significant advance to the … Read More >>
This submission is made by a group of legal practitioners and scholars working on issues of international law and human rights. It derives from a roundtable discussion jointly organized by the International Section of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law held in London on 1 May 2009. The … Read More >>
Glenn Ferguson President Law Council of Australia 19 Torrens Street Braddon ACT 2612 mail@lawcouncil.asn.au Dear Glenn, Trial of Imrana Jalal and her husband in Fiji I have been, for my sins, recently elected President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR). In that position, I have been forwarded a statement from Imrana Jalal requesting that … Read More >>
The Honourable Stephen Smith MP Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade PO Box 6022 House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Stephen.Smith.MP@aph.gov.au Dear Minister, Israeli Action against Aid Flotilla I write to express the strong concern held by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) in respect of the recent events in international waters in … Read More >>
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights President, Stephen Keim, SC, today, called on Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith and the Australian government to press strongly in international forums for a respected and independent international inquiry to be established to conduct investigations to ascertain the facts of this week’s incident involving an attack by Israeli military forces on … Read More >>
