Australia’s government should invest in community-based alternatives to immigration detention rather than spending millions of dollars per person each year on its abusive offshore regime.

Human Rights Watch letter to Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles, regarding Indonesia ...

The political rhetoric surrounding the Australian women and children seeking to return from Syria ignores this fundamental principle ...

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday issued a submission urging the Australian government to press the Vietnamese government on human rights by seeking clear, concrete, and measurable benchmarks for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Global NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in its World Report 2025 slammed Australian state and territory governments for human rights violations including the treatment of children in the criminal ...

Kevin Rudd had the groundwork, the evidence and the political moment for a Human Rights Act – and still walked away. Anthony Albanese now has the same opportunity, and no obvious excuse not to take it ...

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 ...

Despite a growing evidence of transmigrants’ political activism, empirical research is still in its infancy. This paper examined how migrants’ political agency was constructed by their emotions, ...

It was a landmark victory in late 2023 when the UN Human Rights Committee found in favour of the Wunna Nyiyaparli people that Australia had breached its international human rights obligations by ...