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’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 ...

Ms Wong said Australia has applied targeted financial sanctions and travel bans to Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for their role in “serious human rights violations and abuses relating to ...

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 ...