Kate Gauld is a criminal lawyer, Chair of Jubilee Australia, and Chair of the Human Rights Act subcommittee for the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. The opinions expressed here are her own. Kate graduated with distinction from Oxford’s MSc in International Human Rights Law in 2023. Her research interests are in international criminal law, human rights and gender.
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The First Gender Persecution Conviction at the International Criminal Court
On 6 October 2025, the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman – a senior Janjaweed commander – guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Those crimes were ...
Al Hassan Acquitted of Gender Persecution at the ICC
On 26 June 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Mr Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud (‘Al Hassan’) on eight counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu, Mali in 2012 – 2013. ...
Australia inches closer to a national Human Rights Act
Australia is the only western liberal democracy without some form of federal charter of human rights. That may soon change, with a recent parliamentary inquiry recommending a federal Human Rights Act. Before delivering its landmark ...
Human Rights of High-Risk Offenders in Australian Prisons
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In the recent case of Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services NSW [2022] NSWCA 16, the New South Wales Supreme Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in relation to ...
