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Human rights

July 2024

  • Two people shaking hands

    Human rights exist to protect all Australians everywhere, every day

    Rosalind Croucher
  • Residents under watch of the police evacuate the Delmas 22 neighbourhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 May 2024

    Opinion
    Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

    Olivier De Schutter

June 2024

  • Supporters at the Yes to Marriage Equality Rally in Adelaide

    History shows Australian laws have left minorities marginalised. A Human Rights Act would help fix that

    Michael Kirby
  • People stand in a line outside the High Court in London

    NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules

  • Julian Assange waves to supporters at Canberra airport

    How a rainbow coalition of Australian politicians came together to push for Julian Assange’s freedom

    Greg Barns
  • Two children suffering from malnutrition sit on an emaciated donkey next to a line of people

    Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Is owning your own home a human right? How about owning a jetski?

  • The Audio Long Read
    Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison – podcast

  • The Agenda
    Should Australia recognise housing as a human right? Two crossbenchers are taking up the cause

    Paul Karp
  • China has renamed hundreds of Uyghur villages and towns, say human rights groups

  • Thailand passes historic bill recognising marriage equality

  • Chinese premier’s Australia visit overshadowed by officials’ apparent attempt to block Cheng Lei’s view at event

  • Unless Australia stands up to a bullying China, it will just push to get away with more

    Badiucao
  • Labor urged to put human rights record before trade as Chinese premier visits Canberra

  • Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus freed from Iranian jail in prisoner swap

  • China’s panda promise to Adelaide put in black and white as human rights protesters bear witness

  • India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

  • Queensland government accused of cowing to Christian Lobby on anti-discrimination bill

  • Azerbaijan accused of media crackdown before hosting Cop29

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Anas Sarwar says election is about ‘getting rid of Tories’, not Scottish independence – as it happened

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