Reflections from a Eulogy by Eric Sidoti I did not know Harris as a child or as adolescent nor in his student days. Our lives became intertwined some thirty-six years ago through what was then, in Australia at least, a…
Twenty-three civil society organisations including the Human Rights Council of Australia have issued a joint Civil Society Statement on Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Civil society organisations identified key challenges involving business and human rights…
The Human Rights Council of Australia is a cosponsor of the letter below to the UN Human Rights Council on the rights of human rights defenders working to promote economic, social and cultural rights. The letter contributed to the UNHRC…
You wouldn’t know it but earlier this year Australia’s human rights record was pored over by its peers (other countries) in the UN Human Rights Council. Every few years countries have to report on their human rights performance at part…
HRCA Chairperson, Mr Andrew Naylor outlined HRCA proposals for fostering the human rights of workers who are in Australia on temporary visas in a statement to last year’s Senate Enquiry into Temporary Migration. The abuse of human rights of these…
