Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 14th September 2011 -
Victoria could become the first state in the democratic world to wind back protection of human rights, the Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Centre has warned.
The warning comes after…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 4th August 2011 -
The Federal Government has formally appointed Dr Helen Szoke as Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner in a full-time role.
Dr Szoke is Victoria's out-going…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 2nd June 2011 -
American linguist, social scientist and human rights campaigner Professor Noam Chomsky has been awarded the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize.
Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Professor
Peter Benenson, the British lawyer who founded Amnesty International in 1961, rekindles the original candle on the movement's 20th anniversary, outside St Martin in the Fields
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 3rd February 2011 -
The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its gold medal for ‘peace with justice’ to controversial WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.
The citation reads, ‘For…
Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 14th December 2010 -
Australia’s first Human Rights Working Group for Business has been launched by the Global Compact Network Australia to assist corporate signatories meet their human rights…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 14th October 2010 -
Amnesty International has warned that detention conditions on Christmas Island are deteriorating rapidly and asylum seekers there, as well as in other detention centres around…
Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 8th September 2010 -
Billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros had announced a grant of $100 million over 10 years to Human Rights Watch, a New York based Not for Profit organisation.
The…
Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 7th July 2010 -
Asylum seeker policies announced by both the Government and the Opposition fall well short of expectations about fair process and access to justice for asylum seekers, according…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 1st July 2010 -
Internationally renowned environmental, peace, human rights and democracy activist, Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2010 Lions Humanitarian Award in Sydney.
Maathai (pictured…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 12th November 2009 -
As part of a collaborative project “Human Rights: A Call to Action” launched in October 2009 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human…