May 13, 2026
The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) and Yazda welcome the arrests of two Australian citizens on charges of crimes against humanity of enslavement related to conduct against the persecuted Yazidi community. The two individuals were arrested at...
Sep 2, 2020
2 September 2020 The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) welcomes recognition of the need to consider conduct by Australians that might amount to the commission of grave international crimes, however warns the Government’s changes to the Australian...
Oct 25, 2019
The Australian Centre for International Justice has provided a supplementary submission into the review of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2019 by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). The ACIJ...
Oct 14, 2019
The Australian Centre for International Justice has responded to a further review of the Australian Citizenship cessation provisions following introduction of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2019 and a review of this Bill by the...
Jul 26, 2019
As the government introduced further measures to prevent Australian foreign fighters returning to Australia this week with the passage of the Temporary Exclusion Orders Bill, the Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) recommends that the Citizenship...
Jul 19, 2019
The Australian citizenship revocation provisions are an ineffective tool to fight terrorism. Most importantly they inhibit Australia’s duty to prosecute Australians suspected of involvement in international crimes. The Australian government has left the burden...
