Amnesty International believes its evidence shows that Australia organised or directed the crew of an asylum seeker boat to commit the crime of people smuggling into Indonesia.
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Aviation, which transformed travel and way of life in the 20th century, is being transformed in the 21st century and faces some difficult 21st-century problems.
The Dutch Safety Board’s report into the loss of MH17 concludes, but the criminal investigation – which will take in far more evidence – awaits.
We have the courts, we have (some) evidence, but can we build a case? MH17 investigation could remain inconclusive.
A Dutch Safety Board report is crucial to the progress of the ongoing criminal investigation into downed flight MH17.
Attorney-General George Brandis told the ABC that Australia co-operates with the United Nations in relation to its human rights obligations. Is that right?
Beyond general expressions of “opposition” to capital punishment, Australia did not emphasise specific human rights principles in its lobbying of Indonesia to spare Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Offshore detention facilities exist precisely to allow Australia to do things abroad that it could not do at home.
The robust international laws meant to protect cultural heritage are worth little without real international action.
Australia’s system of offshore immigration detention operates outside of any effective state jurisdiction.
In many regional countries there are civil society organisations attempting to fill the protection gap for refugees through service provision, advocacy, or both.
Australian air attacks against Islamic State targets in Syria would not be definitely legal but not definitely illegal.
The statute of limitations is expiring on some of the charges against the Wikileaks founder – but not all of them.
The UK is angry at Spain for chasing boats into its territory. Enough already.
Set up between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Nuremburg Trials founded an entire legal system the world now takes for granted.
If we’re going to mine asteroids, then we need an international treaty to prevent it becoming a wild west. Thankfully we can look to Antarctica to see how such a treaty might work.
Are there any other options at the international level to have the downing of Flight MH17 properly investigated and – if appropriate – prosecuted by an impartial, independent international court?
The divide between ‘legal’ and illegal hacking is very, very thin.
Russia is the latest to deny 1995 massacre was genocide. Why is it so hard to agree on this issue?
Whatever we think of the family of foreign fighter Khaled Sharrouf or their circumstances, they enjoy the right to return on the same footing as every other Australian citizen.
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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