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Monash shines at 2026 Eureka Prizes with landmark wins in law reform and women’s health
$2 million investment for Call It Out First Nations racism register
Monash’s Jane Tiller wins Eureka Prize 2026 for landmark law reform to ban discrimination in life insurance
Qualified but overlooked: How bias keeps Indigenous job seekers from getting hired
Harms of trafficking in enslaved Africans persist today and give rise to reparation obligations, UN racial discrimination committee says
Dr Drake-Brockman honoured for advancing diversity and inclusion in medicine
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Maasai Indigenous Peoples face forced evictions, law enforcement abuses, UN committee warns: Tanzania
Creative Storytelling Competition for LGBTQIA+ People with Disability
Minister Butler Speech At Burnet Institute
UN committee raises alarm over racist killings, displacement and home raids against migrants: South Africa
Wear It Purple Day 2026
Pessimism, cost of living are on the rise, New York at Work report finds
UN committee warns of racial discrimination amid civilian deaths, mass displacement and destruction by Israel’s military operations: Lebanon
Rohingya continue to face atrocity crimes, mass displacement and deepening humanitarian crisis, warn UN experts: Nine years on
Statement to mark the ninth anniversary of the Myanmar military’s attack against Rohingyas
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination publishes findings on Finland, Honduras, India and Kuwait
Independent Cultural Review Into Western Power
Pilot program in WA schools to target antisemitism scourge
AFP Professional Standards statement on internal investigation into police conduct during Woden bus incident
Women and racialized CEOs may outperform their peers because they face tougher barriers to the top
More Australian gas to put downward pressure on power bills
When Even the UN Can See It: Shelton Condemns ALRC No-Show as Surrogacy Review Nears Deadline
Twenty Years Of CRPD Event Wrap-Up
Holocaust Education Centre delivers immersive learning experience
AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions
Greens secure Senate inquiry into super for young workers
Continuing To Make Canberra Capital Of Equality
With religious hostility surging in Australia, we need to rethink our approach to religious education
Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts: UK
Upgraded James Street Public Amenities Now Open
Australia has never known more about the gender pay gap. WHISE says that’s the opportunity
Five Years Since Fall Of Kabul
Press briefing at the United Nations by UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson
UN experts warn against normalisation of Taliban rule: Afghanistan
AHRC and COSBOA partner to support age-inclusive small businesses
Advocacy organisations oppose plans to revive harmful welfare penalties
Risks remain for victim-survivors despite positives in Justice Legislation Amendment Bill
Australian Human Rights Commission supports employers to address racism in workplaces with new national campaign
Cultural perspectives central to understanding stigma
WA police is using live facial recognition to make arrests. This trial is testing privacy law
Alberta’s disability benefit overhaul shifts more economic risk onto people with disabilities
Five years after the Taliban takeover: the normalization of the exclusion of women and girls in Afghanistan
Labor Protects Victim-Survivors With Landmark New Laws
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review Kuwait, India, Honduras and Finland
UN experts urge Iran to end escalating targeting of ethnic minorities
Update On Ahpra’s Notifications Review
Once-weekly HIV pill as effective as daily dose, research shows