This site summarises contemporary human rights issues with a focus on work undertaken in my role as Australian Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner (2000-05). It aims to advance human rights for everyone in Australia and elsewhere around the world.

It provides educational resources which focus on the importance of civil liberties and political rights in the contemporary world. It is my firm believe that any just society must have a government being accountable to its people, be based on the rule of law and commitment to equality of all before the law. Such society requires laws and institutions as well as leadership willing and able to advance fair go for all and in particular to those who are less fortunate or in minority.

Through my blog I intend to put contemporary human rights issues and dilemmas on a national agenda, as I did when I initiated the inquiries into children in Immigration detention and into the rights of mentally ill.

Dr Ozdowski teaches human rights and offers consulting and advisory services.

Refugee Day, Canberra Parliment 2004.

Human Rights Olympic Torch Relay, Sydney 2008.

Solidarity Leader Lech Wałęsa, Canberra 2003.