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Business and Human Rights7 July 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | July 2025
Dear friends, Without truth there can be no justice. On Tuesday, the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s remarkable four-year journey ended with the publication of its final reports and public record. Yoorrook was the first formal truth-telling inquiry into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria. Led by four First Peoples Commissioners and a non-Indigenous Commissioner, it changed Victoria… -
Business and Human Rights30 November 2022Speech
Executive discretion in a time of COVID-19
Promoting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in the contemporary public health context 11th Austin Asche Oration in Law and Governance Australian Academy of Law and Charles Darwin University Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FRSA FACLM(Hon) FAAL TEP * Abstract Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have required very quick action by governments. But those responses have also involved … -
Business and Human Rights22 February 2021Webpage
Business and Human Rights
Read the latest news regarding how the Human Rights Commission works to ensure businesses respect human rights regardless of their location or size. -
Business and Human Rights19 December 2023Submission
Victim-survivors of Forced Marriage
Learn more about how forced marriage violates human rights and how Australia can better protect victim-survivors. -
Business and Human Rights31 October 2017Opinion piece
Slavery is a bigger problem now than when it was ‘abolished’ - and it's happening here
A diverse group of leaders from the Australian business community, civil society, the religious community and academia has released a Statement of Support for the development of legislation to combat Modern Slavery.