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Protests have erupted across the Middle East in response to a trailer for an obscure US-made film posted on YouTube, Innocence of Muslims. Those protests seemed to turn deadly in Libya. However, it seems…
This is a guest post from Adam Fletcher. Adam manages the accountability project at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. View his profile here. Last night in Melbourne the Castan Centre for Human Rights…
Last week Australia experienced its worst day in terms of combat deaths since the Vietnam war. The tragic deaths of five diggers were mourned by our Prime Minister with words of sorrow, followed by her…
So things have once again hotted up in the continuing story of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy. In a fiery press conference in Quito, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño claimed that Britain…
On the weekend it was reported that Tasmania intends to legalise same sex marriage despite the Commonwealth Marriage Act 1961 defining “marriage” as being between a man and a woman. Given that apparent…
Pussy Riot is a collective of young, cool, smart women with attitude who may just be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s worst nightmare. Pussy Riot engage in guerrilla punk protests, popping up unexpectedly…
Acclaimed former Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzón has joined the legal team which represents Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Wikileaks is engaged in legal actions aimed at lifting the financial…
Yesterday we learnt that the report of the UK’s Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war will not be delivered until the second half of 2013, over two years after its initial scheduled date…
Gosh. In the last year the media has been dominated by … the media. We’ve had the furore over Andrew Bolt and racial vilification law, the Finkelstein inquiry (and, less prominently, the Convergence Review…
This is a guest post from Associate Professor Paula Gerber. Paula is Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and an expert on children’s rights. View her profile here. The UN Committee…