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 ...

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

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 ...

Koalas live in eucalypt forests in Australia’s eastern and southern ... euthanising wildlife during an emergency. For human intervention to be justified, euthanasia must be necessary on welfare ...

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