Remedy Australia

We monitor UN human rights complaints concerning Australia & advocate for these cases to be remedied. Join us!

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I join another UN independent expert in urging Australia to repeal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for terrorism offences, which may impose disproportionate penalties and compromise judicial independence, fair trial and freedom from arbitrary detention https://t.co/uFknrWRzE5

[RAC Victoria @racvictoria]

Join our forum on Labor's disgraceful deportation laws this Monday, 3 March, at 6.30pm. In person or online (see our Facebook event for the link).

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

‘I felt less human, not human at all’: Australia faces moral crossroads over Nauru https://t.co/ubv2s0HzDF

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

UN rejects Australia’s claim that abuses on #Nauru are not its responsibility.

Aust established the detention centre & retains “significant control” over it.
“Outsourcing doesn’t absolve accountability. Offshore facilities aren’t human rights-free zones.” https://t.co/9EQ8XIsf8u

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

@RodneyCroome Thank you for all you’ve done these 30 years and more. World-class legend.

[Rodney Croome AM @RodneyCroome]

Thank you to everyone who came along to yesterday’s unveiling of the new panel commemorating 30 years since the UN condemned Tasmania’s anti-gay laws. It was wonderful to be with so many people who are supporters of LGBTIQA+ human rights. More: https://t.co/fAo4aRjtc8

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

The no. of complaints before the UN Human Rights Committee has reached an all-time high, with more violations of freedom of expression & political rights.

Currently 1,321 complaints await consideration by the HRC, with a steady increase in the last 5yrs:
https://t.co/iDbVOgI8uh

[Katherine Copsey @KatCopseyGreens]

My motion in Parliament today. It’s not good enough for police to investigate themselves for misconduct - the government must establish a well-resourced and fully independent police ombudsman.

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

@KatCopseyGreens Thank you @KatCopseyGreens. In case you was to quote the world’s highest authority on civil & political rights on this subject: https://t.co/IGtWHNmXxn
#policemisconduct #integrity #justice #humanrights #righttoaneffectiveremedy

[John H Knox @JohnHKnox]

The UN Human Rights Council consultative committee today nominated @astridpuentes to be the next special rapporteur for environment, and Elisa Morgera to be the SR for climate. Both are great choices! The Council should approve them both in March. https://t.co/sOvM6gcPjH

[Jane McAdam @profjmcadam]

The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples seeks input by 15 March for report on mobile Indigenous Peoples - eg pastoralists, herders, hunter-gatherers, shifting agriculturalists, seafaring/maritime peoples and transboundary mobile peoples https://t.co/Qp7rjMNAd7

[Jane McAdam @profjmcadam]

I’m advertising two 3-year Laureate Postdoctoral Fellowships to work with me on ‘Evacuations in International Law: Disasters, Conflict and Humanitarian Crises’ - details below. Applications close 20 February. https://t.co/hx4xH8W1BP

[Rodney Croome AM @RodneyCroome]

“Tasmania was the last state to decriminalise homosexuality, in 1997... But since then, we have gone on to adopt Australia’s most comprehensive LGBTIQA+ discrimination, relationship, parenting and gender recognition laws.” #auslaw #politas
https://t.co/ScsxxHtBKr

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

Still waiting for a response from @MarkDreyfusKCMP’s dept to this landmark case concerning #selfdetermination & effective #participation in decisions of vital importance to #FirstNations people, like #nativetitle & #mining on Country: Roy v Australia #ICCPR #legalaid #pilbara

[Hélène Tigroudja @HeleneTigroudja]

🔥🔥Groundbreaking new Views of the #HRCttee, Roy v. #Australia dealing with the right of an #INDIGENOUS community to effectively participate to judicial proceedings. For the first time, the #HRCttee stressed the need to adapt judicial proceedings to #indigenous perspective

[Mary Anne Kenny @maryannekenny]

Australia violated Indigenous peoples' human rights, UN says. What happens next? https://t.co/3bOloh3FkL

[Kieran Pender @KieranHRLC]

Melbourne friends - this is tomorrow! Join @Ageinvestigates @zdaniel @MrRexPatrick @KobraMoradi, former whistleblower Sharon Kelsey and I talking about whistleblowing, press freedom and the prosecution of David McBride (@MurdochCadell) https://t.co/DAuZnqAdYP

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

Some early views as UN Special Rapporteur: “We know that overreach and exceeding international law, human rights law and the law of armed conflict is a serious mistake, which does not make communities or the world safer” https://t.co/WvigwxxXQg @Sydney_Uni @SydneyLawSchool

[Kieran Pender @KieranHRLC]

Melbourne friends - join us on 8 November at St Kilda Town Hall for an important event on whistleblowing, press freedom and the prosecution of whistleblowers, with speakers including @zdaniel, @Ageinvestigates, @MrRexPatrick & @KobraMoradi https://t.co/DAuZnqALOn

[Remedy Australia @Right_to_Remedy]

UN Special Rapporteur on sale, sexual exploitation & abuse of children, @MamaFatimaS, will visit Australia from 30 Oct at govt invitation. She'll examine trafficking, online sexual abuse, out-of-home care & more. She'll hold a presser in Melb on 10 Nov & report to UN in March.

[Kieran Pender @KieranHRLC]

I was delighted to speak at a Whistleblower Justice Fund event in Sydney this week, together with @spenderallegra @MrRexPatrick @rawanarraf @PeterGreste & @adele_ferguson. Unless the government acts, a whistleblower will go on trial in two weeks https://t.co/S90OE3RkOx