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The Commission has released a major new report about the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlights how critical gaps in the emergency response could be improved upon in future crises.

National �����鱨վ's Commissioner Anne Hollonds has called on all Australians governments to protect the human rights of children. She released this video to coincide with UN Human Rights Day 2024, on the same week the Queensland Government planned to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill. Read the Commission's landmark report on child justice reform, titled 'Help Way Earlier!':…

More than 1500 people tuned into the 2024 lecture to learn about ‘Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples’. Systemic racism, in law, policies and service delivery, has serious and ongoing consequences for First Nations peoples, including poor mental and physical health, economic disadvantage, over-incarceration and social exclusion. CEO of First Nations…

Our new 'Let’s Talk Ageing' interview series presents insights from thought-leaders about ageing in Australia and beyond. In the first interview of this series, Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM talks with President of the �����鱨վ, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, about ageing positively and some of the challenges older persons face from…

Watch a video discussing human rights issues and initiatives.

View the video from the Free and Equal Human Rights Conference.

Watch the 2023 Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture. A unique opportunity to interrogate sport as a necessary space for anti-racism action.

Australia is widely considered the land of the "fair go". And while that may ring true for many people, not all in our country are yet afforded the dignity and basic rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As the final episode in our series commemorating the Declaration’s 75th anniversary explores, its promise in Australia remains a “work in progress”. Learn more about…

In 2009, boxing program ‘Clean Slate Without Prejudice’ was founded by First Nations leaders and local police to help curb youth crime in Redfern, Sydney. 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created, it’s just one community-led initiative that’s empowering children and inspiring change. But Indigenous youth remain over-represented in Australia’s juvenile detention…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states “everyone is entitled” to all rights and freedoms, “without distinction of any kind”. But 75 years since its creation, disability rights advocate Hannah Diviney says Australia needs to do more to fulfill that promise. In episode 3 of our series commemorating the UDHR’s anniversary, hear the story of ‘Missing Perspectives’, a global news…