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DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights Australia

Not good enough: Home Affairs systemic failure, not just ‘human error’, could easily happen again

11 October 2019 | 4:21 pm

Responding to comments by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton today that “human error” was to...

Refugees Australia

FOI documents raise serious concerns over Australian Government’s role in detention of Hakeem al-Araibi

11 October 2019 | 6:00 am

Freedom of information documents finally released after nine months illustrate how shambolic...

Death penalty Asia

Malaysia: Unfair trials, secretive hangings and petty drug convictions reveal ‘cruel injustice’ of the death penalty

10 October 2019 | 5:30 pm

Malaysia must start to fulfil its promise to abolish the death penalty in forthcoming legislation...

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Freedom of expression, association and assembly Asia

Hong Kong: Face mask ban an extreme attempt to quash protests

4 October 2019 | 9:46 pm

Hong Kong government invokes colonial-era law to crack down on protests “It is thanks to the...

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Gender and sexuality South America

Four new arrests in Marielle Franco murder case; Australian community continues to support fight for justice

4 October 2019 | 1:12 pm

In response to the news that there has been four arrests for the murder of high-profile, Brazilian...

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Community is everything Australia

It’s time to act on United Nations’, experts and community calls to raise the age

4 October 2019 | 11:01 am

Australia has been urged by a committee of international experts to raise the age of criminal...