Human Rights

The rights of protesters to demonstrate without fear of heavy-handed police tactics have today been upheld by the Supreme...

With the increasing use of police powers and supply of weapons, what happens when police behave poorly? Who watches…

        The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS), the Police Accountability Project and other community legal centres...

As 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...

The 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...