Improving community awareness of human rights and how they can be protected is critical to ensuring a fair, just and democratic society.

In its work on human rights, PIAC aims to promote:

• awareness and use of human rights mechanisms
• the protection of internationally recognised human rights
• the equal enjoyment of rights
• improved privacy protection.

PIAC’s record

• Working with community groups and individuals on submissions to the National Human Rights Consultation
• Vindicating Romzi Ali’s defamation claim against Nationwide News
• Representing clients discriminated against by Wesley Mission on the grounds of their sexuality
• Contributing to NGO reports to the United Nations
• Advocating for accessible airline travel
• Winning a homosexual vilification case against 2UE
• Extensive references to PIAC’s recommendations in ALRC report on Australian Privacy Law
• Leading NGO commentary on anti-terrorism laws that infringe civil and political rights
• Opposing the extension of anti-terrorism laws into general policing.