Anne Ruston has announced federal funding for primary prevention initiatives tackling the national scourge of sexual violence and harassment.

The AHRC has urged the government to expand the scheme like it did when offering an additional 12,000 places to people fleeing Syria in 2015.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a press corps in Kabul that he did not want Afghanistan to be a ‘battlefield of conflict’.

So far only 16 current or former politicians have participated in the inquiry into how MOP(S) Act employees, parliamentarians, and other workers inside parliament house…

The complainants say the AEC requirement for voters to provide a street number and postal address in the electoral role is discriminatory.

Among its 20 recommendations detailed in a new report, the AHRC has called on the government to release priority groups from closed immigration detention.

June Oscar has spoken of the positive changes brought about by reconciliation action plans, but says they are only a starting point for First Nations…

Parliamentary staff, including interns, subcontractors and contractors, will be given a voice about their treatment in the workplace.

The AHRC has developed a roadmap to ensure the public and private sectors safeguard human rights when designing, developing and using new technologies.

NFP calls on the government to use and build on the anti-racism work already being done by communities, not-for-profit organisations, activists and researchers.

The transition of a lawyer accused of sexual harassment to a new role in the VPS raises questions about the efficacy of a complaints-based system…

Among its 15 recommendations, the campaign has called on governments to fully implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a constitutionally enshrined First Nations…

The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling on the federal government to implement its new plan for a national anti-racism framework.