Human Rights Law Centre

The Human Rights Law Centre is dedicated to safeguarding and advancing human rights both in Australia and in Australian operations abroad. We employ a comprehensive strategy that includes legal action, advocacy, research, and building capacity to achieve our mission.

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Albanese Government entrenches cruelty with sweeping anti-migrant laws | Human Rights Law Centre

Nov 28, 2024 | hrlc.org.au | Chandi Bates

The Human Rights Law Centre and refugee advocates have criticised the Albanese Government’s cruel attacks on migrant and refugee communities, after some of the most brutal migration laws Australia has seen in years were passed overnight.
Explainer: Labor's brutal Deportation and Surveillance Bill | Human Rights Law Centre

Nov 8, 2024 | hrlc.org.au | Thomas Feng

The Human Rights Law Centre’s explainer on the Albanese Government’s brutal laws to deport and punish refugees and people seeking asylum after the High Court of Australia ruled that ankle bracelets and curfews were punitive and unconstitiutional for people who were released from indefinite immigration detention.
Released detainees have done their time. Let them be

Nov 15, 2023 | hrlc.org.au | Sanmati Verma

Electronic monitoring and curfews involve profound interference with personal freedom and dignity. To be clear, they are forms of ongoing punishment. In Canada, where electronic bracelets are used, migrants report that the devices routinely malfunction, causing their workplaces or homes to be raided by immigration authorities.
‘Permanently temporary’ migrants are part of Australia

May 22, 2023 | hrlc.org.au | Sanmati Verma

Just weeks ago the Albanese government was handed a 200-page report that spelt out the failures of the migration regime in agonising detail. The report could not have been more emphatic. It described key areas of the migration system as irrevocably “broken”, requiring “major reform” that “cannot be achieved by further tinkering and incrementalism”.