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Rights and Freedoms
11 March 2025VideoCommission launches COVID-19 pandemic response report
The Commission has released a major new report about the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlights how critical gaps in the emergency response could be improved upon in future crises. -
Childrens Rights
12 December 2024VideoNational Children's Commissioner urges Australian governments to stand up for children's human rights
National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds has called on all Australians governments to protect the human rights of children. She released this video to coincide with UN Human Rights Day 2024, on the same week the Queensland Government planned to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill. Read the Commission's landmark report on child justice reform, titled 'Help Way Earlier!':… -
Race Discrimination
5 November 2024VideoDismantling systemic racism - perspectives from First Nations peoples - Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture 2024
More than 1500 people tuned into the 2024 lecture to learn about ‘Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples’. Systemic racism, in law, policies and service delivery, has serious and ongoing consequences for First Nations peoples, including poor mental and physical health, economic disadvantage, over-incarceration and social exclusion. CEO of First Nations… -
Rights and Freedoms
22 May 2024Event
Free + Equal Human Rights Conference 2024
Join leaders, experts and advocates from across Australia for a historic national forum that will pave the way for a much-needed overhaul of Australia’s human rights framework, including the introduction of an Australian Human Rights Act. The conference includes 12 engaging sessions and events over two days featuring a diverse line-up of more than 50 eminent experts, thought leaders, social … -
Age Discrimination
22 May 2024VideoLet's Talk Ageing Episode 1: Interview with Human Rights President Rosalind Croucher
Our new 'Let’s Talk Ageing' interview series presents insights from thought-leaders about ageing in Australia and beyond. In the first interview of this series, Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM talks with President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, about ageing positively and some of the challenges older persons face from… -
Rights and Freedoms
2 May 2024Video
Rights On Time Video
Watch a video discussing human rights issues and initiatives. -
Rights and Freedoms
2 May 2024Video
Free + Equal Human Rights Conference
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1 March 2024Event
Livestream the Launch of Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute
Launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute and Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice Livestream Join us virtually to celebrate the official launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute, and the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice! This historic event will be accessible via l ivestream from 6:15pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 19 March 2024. This is a free… -
Race Discrimination
1 February 2024Video
'Racism in Sport' - Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture 2023
Watch the 2023 Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture. A unique opportunity to interrogate sport as a necessary space for anti-racism action. -
Commission - General
10 January 2024VideoAustralia's human rights progress
Australia is widely considered the land of the "fair go". And while that may ring true for many people, not all in our country are yet afforded the dignity and basic rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As the final episode in our series commemorating the Declaration’s 75th anniversary explores, its promise in Australia remains a “work in progress”. Learn more about…