The number of people in custody has surged dramatically in the Northern Territory since the government passed sweeping bail ...

Australia's Northern Territory becomes 1st 'entire region' to refuse to cooperate with UN group in its over 30 years of ...

SYDNEY (12 December 2025) – Australia’s criminal justice system contains safeguards against arbitrary detention, yet serious concerns persist over the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

In a statement concluding its official visit to Australia, the independent UN experts described the scale of overincarceration and detention practices as ongoing human rights crises that require ...

Across every region, human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to be arbitrarily detained for their work, sometimes for days, ...

Concerned by the arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers by some States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent reforms to halt this detrimental practice. Releasing its latest advocacy ...

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University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The following field note is a short account of last Friday’s historic ruling by a top United Nations panel that Julian Assange ...

Photo: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. The arbitrary detention of a foreign vessel by the US is a serious ...

The Australia government last week signed onto a joint statement calling for an end to arbitrary detention of citizens in state-to-state relations, following recent incidents in Iran, China, Russia, ...