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Computational technologies impact on every human right.
Trump’s executive order to end family separations at the border is too little too late, a human rights expert writes. Indefinitely detaining immigrants is breaking the law.
An economy and society like Saudi Arabia’s cannot survive the modern world without giving in to change.
Homonormativity, like heteronormativity, privileges certain lives over others.
Trump’s defense of harsh immigration tactics and dehumanizing language should ring alarm bells, according to two scholars who study how to prevent mass atrocities.
It is just as much for our own sake, as for the sake of robots, that we should begin recognising the rights of intelligent machines.
While not exactly surprising coming from the Trump administration, backing out of a major UN body is bound to have serious consequences.
Decades after the end of a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the survivors’ search for justice goes on.
Sessions ignored the many gospel teaching about love, and used a passagethat has been used historically to justify all manner of immoral behavior, including imperialism, slavery, Nazism and apartheid.
AI has caused a “techlash” against Google. These principles are first step, but more needs to be done.
Victims could be entitled to redress – but it won’t be easy.
Morocco’s law combines with a strongly conservative society to create a real sense of danger among LGBTIQ people.
The UN has repeatedly criticised Ireland’s laws. It’s time to change the Constitution.
Those tasked with sustaining peace must address economic, social and cultural rights to stand any chance of succeeding.
Foundational to the work of Holocaust educators and many teachers have been the survivors. Given there are fewer survivors who are alive today, how do educators inform future generations?
The data you create when using the internet can actually be used to discriminate against you.
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
The government’s Snoopers’ Charter didn’t permit blanket indiscriminate data retention, the Court of Appeal recently ruled. I strongly disagree.
A new report from Amnesty International reveals that while the number of countries that impose the death penalty is shrinking, there is still a long way to go before it is abolished altogetehr.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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