Visually impaired student Adam Whitehead has long relied on a computer and assistive technology to help him read course ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling for urgent action from government and business to address the escalating impacts of climate change on Australians’ human rights.Launching its first ...

Climate change isn’t only about the planet. It’s about people — and the rights we’re bound to protect as the world heats up.

Unfinished Business’, a groundbreaking, 3D lenticular photographic exhibition, has opened at the Australian Museum in Sydney ...

Human rights advocates are calling for a NSW Human Rights Act to help Australians fight discrimination and defend their freedoms through stronger legal protections.

A viral video showing a lack of accessibility into the offices of the federal minister for disability has highlighted broader ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...

Imagine being locked alone in a tiny cell for over 20 hours a day and for more than 500 days over a 744-day period. That is how Michael (not his real name), an Aboriginal teenager with an intellectual ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk praised Australia's first formal treaty with Indigenous Peoples on Monday, calling it a 'historic step toward self-determination for the country's First Peoples.' ...