Everyone has the right to be safe and free from discrimination. Learn about disability discrimination and what action you can ...

Human rights are standards that governments around the world have agreed to meet so that everyone can live a safe, free and dignified life. Human rights are about being treated fairly, treating others ...

Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on Thursday calling for establishing a federal human rights act. The recommendation is the result of the committee’s ...

Australia is the only Western democracy not to have a Human Rights Act in its legal system or constitution. Instead, Australia has a patchwork of rights, leaning on individual legislation, such as the ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by countries in the UN General Assembly in 1948, following World War Two. It had the goal of setting a "common standard of achievement for all ...

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling that all persons with disabilities have the right to protection against discrimination and to full and equal enjoyment of their human rights, as laid down, ...

[My daughter] became sick and had a fever. That fever led her to death. We could not take her to hospital and could not contact a doctor due to the flood. We could not even bury her properly as it was ...

With all the hollering and scolding of Russian barbarity in Ukraine and Chinese viciousness against the Uighur populace, one could be forgiven for thinking that Australia’s politicians were presiding ...