The Australian government expanded its abusive refugee and migrant policies in 2025, Human Rights Watch said in its World ...

Voluntary commitments Australia could make during its UN UPR appearance The Attorney-General’s Department has asked for feedback about potential voluntary commitments Australia could make during its ...

Human Rights Watch has released its annual report for 2026, highlighting several issues it says have tarred Australia's ...

The UN Human Rights Council has raised grave concerns about Australia’s treatment of incarcerated children who are locked up, ...

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 Human Rights Law Centre published a report on Wednesday finding that the ability to protest in Australia has been eroded by anti-protest legislation over the last two decades. The report, ...

Australia’s youth detention system is costing billions of dollars each year while consistently failing to meet international ...

A ‘tough on crime’ political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem. When media reports emerged earlier this year about a new youth “crime wave” of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes” after an Australian ...

The assessment, called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), was conducted overnight by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UPR is a peer review process that occurs every five years, where UN ...