International Law
Economic empowerment of Indigenous communities, much touted by the federal government, is hindered by the absence of constitutional recognition and constitutionally protected rights for First Nations...
The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
When our team from the Australian National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice (NCRTJ) travelled to Canada, we were struck by how visible and structured their national approach to truth-telli...
"My daughter wasn't protected."That is how Kimberley mother Irene Davey describes the failure of Australian authorities — a failure she is now taking to the United Nations.
Aboriginal Australia is at a crossroads. Traditionally federal Labor governments have offered more on Indigenous policy than the Coalition. There is a dawning realisation among many of us that these d...
Deep-sea mining is set to go ahead in Tonga after the Pacific Island's government committed to a new agreement. The revised deal was signed on Monday with Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd, a subsidiary of Th...
The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is an annual meeting at the UN Headquarters in Geneva focussing on Indigenous people's rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of...
The Yoorrook Justice Commission's declaration of Victoria's colonial past as genocide has been welcomed by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, who is calling on the federal government to support truth-t...
It's over 30 years ago that we as Noongar people took part in a national movement to Stop Black Deaths in Custody, leading to the federal announcement of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in...
Aboriginal leaders are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to address Australia's "discriminatory and punitive youth justice policies", due to "serious violations of the human rights o...
Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman have co-sponsored a package of Bills introduced to the Senate Thursday, which seeks to protect vulnerable populations from the risk of genocide and atrocity cri...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service has supported Richard Connock's calls for the state's government to commit to effective independent monitoring and oversight to protect hundreds of vulnerable pe...
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and the National Children's Commissioner criticised the failure of leadership by the Commonwealth, states and territories to incor...