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Watch Prof. Rosalind Croucher's insightful speech at the Free and Equal Human Rights Conference.

Watch Dr. Michelle Bachelet's keynote speech at the Free + Equal Conference, discussing human rights and equality.

A special video about 30 years of the Australian Human Rights Commission, which has been working in the community to advance human rights for everyone, everywhere, every day. This video was played at the 2016 Human Rights Awards, for more information see http://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/st...

his animated video introduces the concept of human rights – what are they, where do they come from and why are they important in Australia today? This video was developed to complement ‘The Story of Our Rights and Freedoms’ classroom resources for Years 7-10 History and Civics and Citizenship. These resources were developed in partnership with Cool Australia. You can view and download the

The Honourable Justice Peter McClellan AM and Chrissie Foster have won the prestigious 2018 Human Rights Medal for their enormous contribution to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Young People’s Human Rights Medal went to Saxon Mullins, who received a standing ovation. Saxon told her story of sexual assault on national television and highlighted the…

In March 2009, Sydney Law School alumnus Matt Laffan passed away after he fought and lost the biggest battle of his colourful and active life. On 27 February 2019, Carly Findlay, writer and appearance activist, will deliver a memorial address to celebrate the significant impact Matt made in his short life. The 2019 address is jointly co-hosted by Sydney Law School and the Australian Human…

This animated video introduces viewers to children's rights. For more information about children's rights visit: https://humanrights.gov.au/kids

On Monday 8 April 2019, refugee and disability rights activists Nujeen Mustafa and Shantha Rau Barriga joined Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow at another of our popular RightsTalk events, hosted in partnership with Human Rights Watch. > Click to read more about this event.

Famed and haunted by a career in the pool, Casey Legler - former Olympic swimmer, LGBTI advocate, fashion model, restaurateur & author of newly released bio "Godspeed", shares an incredible life story. Read our news story for more information.

Find out about what you can do to tell everyone that Racism. It Stops With Me. at http://itstopswithme.humanrights.gov.au/ and Play by the Rules - http://www.playbytherules.net.au Video featuring Adam Goodes.

As part of the Child Safe Organisations project, the Australian Government commissioned the National Children’s Commissioner, Megan Mitchell, to lead the development of National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. Find out more at https://childsafe.humanrights.gov.au TRANSCRIPT: https://childsafe.humanrights.gov.au/...