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US tariffs could create a ‘conflict of laws’ for Australian businesses
Adelaide seminar to explore how human rights help fix critical social challenges
Australians support stronger whistleblower laws, while Labor drags its feet
UN Women Statement For World Environment Day
Nominations now open for Australia’s premier event honouring human rights champions
UN experts demand truth and accountability after Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera dies in custody: Nicaragua
Indigenous Peoples gravely vulnerable to Ebola epidemic, warn UN independent experts
UN experts condemn military trial in acid attack case targeting human rights defender Andrie Yunus: Indonesia
Universities Australia’s response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Respect at Uni report
UN albinism expert to visit Pakistan
UN experts raise alarm over treatment of political prisoners, urge medical intervention: Belarus
Nicaragua Death In Custody
Specialised judicial units in Haiti
Developing a Career Contributing to Food Security in Africa: Tatsuki Sakai from Japan
‘Arrogant and utterly disrespectful’, Greens call Labor’s response to Parliamentary Inquiry into public housing demolition project
Anna Cody is wrong: women are being harmed by biological males in female spaces
3 Persons and 4 entities listed under the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011 – Human Rights
Further human rights sanctions in response to escalating settler violence in the West Bank
UN expert gravely concerned by persistent violence in several regions of Central African Republic
Experta de la ONU sobre la lepra realizará visita oficial: Colombia
UN experts alarmed by escalating settler terror and displacement: Occupied Palestinian Territory
Silence is not consent to child marriage, UN committee condemns: Afghanistan
UN Group of Experts appalled by Brooklyn Rivera’s death, demands accountability: Nicaragua
PWDA Submission Of NDIS Amendment Bill 2026
Australian Court allows first-ever UN expert intervention in landmark environmental case
UN experts call for full justice and accountability twenty years after the Crimes of May: Brazil
UN experts welcome UN General Assembly resolution supporting world court’s climate change ruling
Government should close the gap between policy and practice to ensure full equality for LGBT people, says expert: Mongolia
Protection of children online needs to be done right – UN Human Rights Office issues guidelines for child safety online
Community legal centres urge the Australian Government to enshrine human rights in law
Ukraine War Risks Spiralling Out of Control, Secretary-General Warns Security Council, Calls for Full, Unconditional Ceasefire
On Brazil visit, UN Experts to provide guidance on protecting Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation
Türk warns against dangerous escalation and urges return to negotiations: Ukraine
Prison overcrowding may amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, UN torture prevention body warns: France
What is the Sex Discrimination Act and how does it protect people?
UN Committee on Migrant Workers to review Ecuador, Ghana and Gambia
Upcoming hearing on gender equality as a national security and economic security imperative
ACT Budget 26-27: Citizens’ jury to support the next stage of voluntary assisted dying policy
Labor Cheers for a Terrorist — While Melburnians March for Iran’s Freedom
UN expert welcomes Colombian Supreme Court ruling recognising commercial sexual exploitation as part of system of violence
Reduced health insurance payments for hospital births had a bigger impact on sterilization rates than correcting an injustice
States must halt involuntary returns to Afghanistan: Türk
Sydney seminar to explore how human rights help fix critical social challenges
UNGA heeds Pacific voices, backs world court on states’ climate obligations
Urgent structural reforms needed to settle historical debt to Afro-Mexican peoples, UN experts say: Mexico
Experts: Chile must maintain and improve public policies relating to the National Plan for the Search for Victims of Enforced Disappearance during dictatorship
New national report finds children’s voices are the key to ending violence before it begins
Netherlands violated child’s right to privacy by storing his DNA profile, UN committee finds

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