The great Patrick Walsh died on Monday 29 December 2025 in Melbourne after several months fighting aggressive cancer with determination. Pat was an Australian human rights hero, working for decades in and with leading Australian and international human rights organisations…
Sport for Good – Torrens University Human Rights Related Course
Torrens University is offering a free online short course connecting human rights and sport, an issue that the HRCA has advocated in support of over many years. The course has been developed with Graig Foster who is a passionate advocate…
HARRIS VAN BEEK 26 December 1951 – 13 September 2017
Reflections from a Eulogy by Eric Sidoti I did not know Harris as a child or as adolescent nor in his student days. Our lives became intertwined some thirty-six years ago through what was then, in Australia at least, a…
Implementing UN Principles on Business and Human Rights
Twenty-three civil society organisations including the Human Rights Council of Australia have issued a joint Civil Society Statement on Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Civil society organisations identified key challenges involving business and human rights…
Letter to UN Human Rights Council: Protect Human Rights Defenders
The Human Rights Council of Australia is a cosponsor of the letter below to the UN Human Rights Council on the rights of human rights defenders working to promote economic, social and cultural rights. The letter contributed to the UNHRC…