Australia has the experience, resources, and civil society needed to shape a more humane and effective refugee system. Four ...

THE Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) had during the past four years handled 2,190 complaints where 70 ...

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As more Aussies than ever flock to Thailand, tourists have been warned of a widely unknown law that could see you locked up for 50 years. American academic Dr Paul Chambers has become the latest ...

Animal rights activists have raised eyebrows after sensationally calling for the NRL's biggest team to immediately change ...

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights ...

That agenda should include substantive human rights reform. The government has the opportunity in its second term to enhance the protections we all deserve by legislating a national Human Rights Act.

United States President Donald Trump has hit out at New York Attorney General Letitia James. While speaking to the press at the Oval Office, Trump was questioned about the April 14 referral ...

As Australia enters a new electoral term with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese back at the helm, and world affairs in a state of turmoil, it is critical to ask whether human rights will get deserved ...

Guyana’s human rights record came under intense scrutiny yesterday during its fourth Universal Perio-dic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

Chairperson, Commissioners, and distinguished delegates, Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to address the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.