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Time to end police investigating police: joint call for a Police Ombudsman
Read moreThe Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS), the Police Accountability Project and other community legal centres...
10 October 2022011 -
The Co-opting of Human Rights Language
Read moreAs human rights-based organisations, we are calling out the COVID “anti-lock down movement” for its dangerous co-opting of human rights frameworks and language. The “anti-lockdown movement” uses words...
30 September 2021 -
Impacts on Weapons Use by Victoria Police
Read moreThe Police Accountability Project (PAP) condemns the use of new weaponry and the rising militarisation of Victoria Police. We express concern about the oppressive policing of demonstrations generally. On Saturday 21st...
26 August 2021 -
Racial Profiling monitoring call to the United Nations
Read moreA coalition of 56 Australian non-government organisations have called upon all Australian state and federal governments to adopt measures…
15 October 2017 -
Discrimination, double punishment & death: the case against deportations
Read more“We are talking about people who have already served time in custody for a crime they have committed. Subjecting…
8 May 2017 -
A six year battle against discrimination
Read moreA Victorian Supreme Court judgement has found that Kwenda Obudho was the victim of racial discrimination by a popular…
10 February 2017 -
Victorian police complaints investigations in the spotlight: IBAC recommendations fail the “Horvath test”
Read moreThe Victorian Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) recently released its review of Victorian police complaints investigation, the Audit of...
6 November 2016 -
Supreme Court Kaba decision could set back racial profiling prevention
Read moreAn appeal decision has been handed down in the Victorian Supreme Court which could set back Victoria Police efforts…
18 December 2014 -
Australia’s journey toward a police state – Professor Philip Alston
Read moreProfessor Philip Alston delivered a scathing indictment of Australia’s recent legislative response to perceived security issues. Titled “Could Australia…
11 December 2014 -
4 December 2014 -
Racial Profiling champians shortlisted for Human Rights Award
Read moreTwo young men from Flemington, Daniel Haile Michael and Maki Issa have been shortlisted for the Australian Human Rights…
19 November 2014 -
An apology for Corinna Horvath
Read moreCorrinna Horvath has recieved a welcome and a significant compensation from the State of Victoria along with an…
22 September 2014 -
Why the Police Act needs changing
Read moreWhen it comes to police violence and misconduct Victoria’s laws protect police, not its citizens. The new Victoria…
1 September 2014 -
A new call for Police Accountability
Read moreThirteen Victorian and Australian legal, human rights and civil society organisations have today called for a substantive response by…
28 July 2014 -
Lex Wotton free to speak: four-year gag order lifted
Read moreThe death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004 and the protests that followed, ...
24 July 2014 -
“We will get better” Racial Profiling Update
Read moreWe continue to monitor and engage with the roll out of the commitments made by Victoria Police in the…
17 July 2014 -
Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014
Read moreThe Australian Lawyers Alliance’s highly regarded Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014 has been awarded to the Flemington and Kensington Community...
7 July 2014 -
UN condemns inadequate response to police violence
Read moreA powerful condemnation of the failure of Victoria’s laws to provide adequate remedies to victims of police violence has…
3 July 2014 -
18 Years Too Long
Read moreIn a damning decision, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that remedying police violence requires Victoria to…
6 April 2014
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