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New avenue for human rights complaints in the ACT

People who believe an ACT public authority has breached their human rights will soon be able to raise their concerns through a new pathway.

ACT will make healthy environment a human right

The ACT Government will introduce a bill today to enshrine the right to a healthy environment in the ACT’s Human Rights Act.

ACT promises intersex rights in Australian-first laws

Intersex rights against controversial medical intervention have been promised for the first time in Australia.

Healthy environment to be added to ACT Human Rights Act

The ACT Government will introduce a right to a healthy environment to the Human Rights Act 2004 in this term of the Legislative Assembly.

New human rights complaint pathway for ACT

Complaints about a breach of the Human Rights Act 2004 will be made to the ACT Human Rights Commission for confidential conciliation.

China ‘used health app for crowd control’

Angry bank customers who travelled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their mobile phone.

‘Sabotage’ as UN human rights head visits China

China says the US, UK and other foreign powers are seeking to sabotage its foreign relations by orchestrating criticism surrounding a trip by the top United Nations official for human rights.

Environment becomes human right in Australian first

The ACT will become the first Australian jurisdiction to recognise a healthy environment as a human right.

Taliban kill, abduct more than 100: report

Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly "disappeared" more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch says.

Debate on Victorian pandemic laws draws protests

Controversial pandemic laws are being debated in the Victorian parliament as protesters maintain their presence outside, after several conducted a mock execution of the premier overnight.

Reporting racism must be easier, Giulia Jones tells Human Rights Commission

Canberra Liberals MLA Giulia Jones asked for a meeting with the ACT Human Rights Commissioner to help ethnic communities report racism.

Katter urges rethink of mandatory vaccinations

Federal Member for the Queensland seat of Kennedy, Bob Katter, argues that Australians' human rights have been taken away in a bid to overcome Covid-19, but the virus crisis has worsened over that time instead of improving.

Prominent Canberra human rights lawyer adds author to her resume

Human rights lawyer, social advocate, world traveller and CEO, Sonia Di Mezza, has added co-author to her long list of credentials; with a pen name of Angela Aquila, Sonia has co-written Lovesick...

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