Strong evidence backs the increasing weight of international sentiment opposing Australia’s human rights record. Australia may already have pariah status in terms of its asylum policies.
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For many, it evokes memories of the Holocaust. So how can the government justify it?
Workplace surveillance is creating a culture of suspicion that harms employers and their staff.
Residents of Rio’s favelas are facing forced evictions – but they’re not moving out without a fight.
Argentina’s right-wing press wants an end to “revenge” for crimes committed under the old dictatorship. But revenge and justice aren’t the same thing.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
The works of Indonesianist Benedict Anderson, who died last Thursday, challenged Suharto’s military regime from the beginning.
Polls are revealing the vast popularity of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, but is his rhetoric of reform simply a matter of appearance, or a sign of substantial change in Australian policy?
The government’s uncontested assessment of national interest and security often trumps the rule of domestic and international law, as well as Australia’s obligations under human rights treaties.
In the 1990s, thousands of people in Peru were sterilised without their consent – but finally they now have a way to tell the world.
UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
Less is often more – acting quickly in the wake of atrocities rarely leads to good laws.
The second Universal Periodic Review of Australia took place under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council on November 9. Such reviews, which entail wide ranging scrutiny of a state’s human rights…
More than 100 countries have taken the opportunity to comment and make recommendations on Australia’s human rights record.
With the opposition party on course to win a historic election, it’s time to get serious on some difficult questions.
The #feesmustfall movement brought gains for democracy. As relatively free spaces for enquiry, universities have a public duty to fight, not facilitate, a slide into a national security state.
When the ‘Arab street’ came to Downing Street, passions ran high and fear and loathing were in the air.
The United Nations was born 70 years ago, emerging from the horrors of World War II. After the failure of its predecessor, the League of Nations, the UN heralded the dawn of a new era, with the promise…
Hardly an enthusiastic upholder of human rights, Qatar has been welcomed as a participant in R2P – even though that obligates it to do basically nothing.
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has arrived in the UK on an official state visit and it seems that he will largely be welcomed in most quarters. Indeed, the British Conservative government’s approach to…
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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 Law, University of Waikato
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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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