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Australia human rights

November 19, 2022
2 State Governments in Australia Block UN Visits to Prisons
By Dechlan Brennan
The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide.

October 26, 2022
Murder of Indigenous Teenager in Western Australia Brings Despair, Deja Vu
By Dechlan Brennan
The murder of 15-year-old Cassius Turvey is not just a tragedy; “sadly, it is a pattern.”

July 02, 2020
Slow Progress Toward an Australian Magnitsky Act
By Philip Citowicki
A Magnitsky Act would allow the effective targeting of individual human rights abusers without the collateral damage of sweeping sanctions.

November 28, 2017
Australia’s Same-Sex Marriage Breakthrough
By Ed Kennedy
What same-sex marriage legislation in Australia could mean for LGBTQI Rights in Asia.

July 26, 2017
Australia Must Lift Its Game If It Wants to Lead on the Human Rights Council
By Tom Clarke
Australia now looks certain to take a seat at the UN’s Human Rights Council, but will it be constructive or a spoiler?

October 21, 2016
Australia’s Wrong Response to its Rights Abuses
By Max Walden
A new report sheds more light on the country’s dark record.

October 12, 2015
Australia’s Human Rights Doublethink
By UNSW Human Rights Clinic
You can’t preach what you don’t practice. Unless you’re Australia and we’re talking human rights.
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