David Birchall is Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie Law School. Ebony Birchall is the Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie University. She has ...

The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that ...

Dec. 10 is the 77th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Civil rights vary from country to country and can be changed by governing bodies. The right to vote is a civil right, for ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

The escalation of global challenges, including political violence, transnational crime, corruption, environmental crises, forced migration, health emergencies, disinformation and inequality, is ...

On Dec. 4, 2025, human rights nonprofit organization Amnesty International published a report alleging multiple examples of human rights abuses — including one practice that would meet the United ...

Bruce Chen is affiliated with the Human Rights Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria, the peak body for the Victorian legal profession. Julie Debeljak is affiliated with the Advisory Committee of ...

Australia’s push for a federal Human Rights Act is stalled by political caution and media hostility. The path forward may ...

In our complex, interconnected world, there are risks of human rights violations throughout global supply chains. Examples include not only modern slavery and child labour, but also gender ...