AUSSIEINSIDER

We are extremely concerned about restrictions facing civil society, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and access to justice in Australia. Australia lacks adequate protections for human rights defenders and has created an atmosphere of fear, censorship and retaliation.

UN Human Rights Council

People with disabilities are over-represented in prisons and are more likely to be investigated, charged, remanded to custody, or serve longer prison terms than people without disabilities. In some cases, people with disabilities have been languishing in prison for years without having been convicted of a crime, simply because the government has not provided alternatives to incarceration.

Human Rights Watch

The Australian government is responsible for the deliberate and systematic torture of refugees. The offshore processing regime was explicitly designed to inflict incalculable damage on hundreds of women, men and children as an act of deterrence, by isolating them on a remote place from which they cannot leave, with the specific intention that these people should suffer harm.

Amnesty International

​2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The commission recommended that imprisonment of indigenous people convicted of crimes be a sanction of last resort. However, since 1991, the rate of indigenous imprisonment has doubled.

Human Rights Watch

In considering the ethics of mass medical interventions, we are concerned that the polarised debates and the way that evidence is harnessed and uncertainties glossed over make it hard for the public and professionals to participate in consultations on an informed basis.

Health Services Research, University of York