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January 14, 2020

Australia: National Security Laws Chill Free Speech

Australia’s sweeping national security laws and police actions against journalists and whistleblowers are having a chilling effect on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020.

Disability Rights

January 14, 2020 News Release

Australia: National Security Laws Chill Free Speech
Refugee Rights

December 16, 2019 Commentary

"I'm Happy, But I Am Also Broken for Those Left Behind": Life After Manus and Nauru

Elaine Pearson
Australia Director

Published In: The Guardian
Refugees and Migrants

August 22, 2019 News Release

Australia: Retain Emergency Medical Care for Refugees

Videos Watch More

July 17, 2018 Video

Refugees Trapped by Australia for 5 years

Reports More Reports

August 2, 2016

Australia: Appalling Abuse, Neglect of Refugees on Nauru

Investigation on Remote Pacific Island Finds Deliberate Abuse Hidden Behind Wall of Secrecy

News

July 24, 2019 Commentary

Trump’s Attack on Asylum Seekers Was Made in Australia

Elaine Pearson
Australia Director

Published In: Foreign Policy
June 24, 2019 Letter

Letter to Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne
June 24, 2019 News Release

Australia: Protect Human Rights in Foreign Policy
November 19, 2018 Commentary

For Refugees on Nauru, Little Joy on Children’s Day

Elaine Pearson
Australia Director

Published In: Australian Institute of International Affairs
July 17, 2018 News Release

Australia: New Video on Cruel ‘Offshore Processing’ Policy
June 29, 2017 Dispatches

Australia’s Abusive Asylum Policy Rebuked Again

Helen Griffiths
Coordinator, Children's Rights
May 2, 2017 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch on Australia to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
February 13, 2017 Commentary

Harassment Is Denying Refugee Children on Nauru an Education

Helen Griffiths
Coordinator, Children's Rights

Published In: New Zealand Herald
February 3, 2017 Commentary

How Australia Can Solve Its Refugee Problem

Michael Garcia Bochenek
Senior Counsel, Children’s Rights Division

Published In: International Business Times
January 24, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission on Nauru to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
December 29, 2016 Commentary

For Managing Migration, Australia is No Model for Europe

Michael Garcia Bochenek
Senior Counsel, Children’s Rights Division

Published In: Die Presse
October 7, 2016 Dispatches

Nauru and Australia: Partners in Refugee Abuse

Michael Garcia Bochenek
Senior Counsel, Children’s Rights Division

Daily Brief

January 21, 2020

Global economic inequality "out of control"; 20,000 "disappeared" from Sri Lanka's civil war confirmed dead; horrors in Nepal still unpunished; new report highlights Myanmar military's war crimes in its campaign against ethnic Rohingya; democracy in Thailand "hanging by a thread"; lawmakers in the US unleash barrage of anti-transgender bills; and preparing for Human Rights Weekend in Amsterdam.