Last Thursday, Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report on Australia’s human rights framework. The Committee’s first recommendation was to establish a ...

Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in 1994, the Toonen ...

Australia’s recently re-elected Labor government should use its second-term as an opportunity to amplify human rights in its foreign policy.

Human rights advocates have long opposed Australia’s offshore processing policies. James Ross/AAP. As a member of the UN, and a country that relies on other features of the UN treaty system ...

On election night, the prime minister talked about ‘fairness’ and ‘Australian values’. To legally protect those values, we need a national human rights act.

A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted ...

But the relationship remains tense on matters of human rights and geopolitics as China becomes militarily more belligerent in the Asia-Pacific region and Australia grows closer to its Western ...

Specifically, forcing a pregnant person to carry an unwanted pregnancy is a human rights violation. In one story in the report, a Black 12-year-old named Kim (whose name had been changed for ...