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Thirteen Victorian and Australian legal, human rights and civil society organisations have today called for a substantive response by the State of Victoria to the recent findings of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the long-running case of Victorian woman, Corinna Horvath.

The death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004 and the protests that followed,  are tragic and clear demonstrations of the need for police accountability. Following Doomadgee’s death, the Attorney General indicted Senior Sargent Chris Hurley for a criminal trial. This was the first time action of this kind had been taken by the...

We continue to monitor and engage with the roll out of the commitments made by Victoria Police in the Equality is Not the Same report and we want to keep you up to date.

The Australian Lawyers Alliance’s highly regarded Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014 has been awarded to the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre, in recognition of its outstanding work representing all the way to the United Nations, a young Victorian woman, Corinna Horvath, who was subjected to police brutality. Corinna Horvath was brutally assaulted by a group of police during a raid on...

A powerful condemnation of the failure of Victoria’s laws to provide adequate remedies to victims of police violence has been delivered by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) in the recent and long awaited decision of Horvath v Australia (‘Horvath’).

In a damning decision, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that remedying police violence requires Victoria to take steps it has shirked up to this point.

Exciting moves are afoot to form a community-based ‘Racial Profiling Monitoring Project’ to monitor the outcomes of the Vicpol Equality Report

In a recent article in the Melbourne Age, ‘African youth in New Year’s brawl’ Salvation Army Major Brendan Nottle was quoted as saying:

“Rather than take the approach that we’re not going to talk about this for fear of being branded racist, or saying, ‘why are these young people here, why don’t they integrate’, we actually need to say this…

Police killings are big news, but the investigations that follow have unearthed a culture of violence without accountability. The solution is civilian investigators – but there are a few myths that need to be dispelled first, writes Tamar Hopkins

In February 2013, six years after the case began, on the eve of an eightweek trial and as Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay was expected to give evidence, it was settled.