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To understand Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and the public support for killing drug dealers and users, we need to distinguish the empirical from the normative – the ‘what is’ from ‘what should be’.
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
The main criticism leveled at the body that oversees the work of South Africa’s elite police unit, the Hawks, is that it lacks the power to initiate investigations, making it ineffective.
Here’s the glaring omission in George Brandis’ list of issues raised recently with Indonesian President Joko Widodo: human rights.
It has taken more than three months for the Australian and PNG governments to jointly announce the Manus Island detention centre will close. But the detainees’ fate is now even more uncertain.
Reports of abuse on Nauru should provide a flashpoint for the Turnbull government to reassess its asylum-seeker policies before more serious harm is inflicted on Australia’s international standing.
Our inward focus on marriage equality means Australia is largely absent from efforts to increase respect for LGBTI people in our region.
Shahram Amiri is one of 250 people executed this year despite President Rouhani’s efforts to improve his country’s human right’s record.
Ukraine desperately needs Chinese investment but, like many other countries in this position, this is giving rise to concerns about the consequences for its fragile democracy.
Leaked incident reports from the Nauru detention centre affirm what has been known for a long time: detention is no place for children, and we need alternatives to offshore processing.
Not only does the death penalty violate human rights, executions in Indonesia are carried out under a deeply flawed justice system.
Great expectations distorts the political horse-trading that shaped the new cabinet of Indonesia.
Advocacy efforts are easier to dismiss when they are seen to reflect vested interests more than principled foundations.
Feared and deplored for his slash-and-burn approach to criminal justice, Rodrigo Duterte has suddenly shown his conciliatory side.
The Philippines is seeing a surge of extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals and drug users since Rodrigo Duterte assumed office last month.
Legislating against racial and religious vilification is highly fraught, as the ongoing debate around Section 18C has demonstrated, and unlikely to become less so any time soon.
Taking over a country by military force is much harder in this age of globalised rights.
That South Africa has voted against rights enshrined in its globally celebrated, progressive constitution suggests a troubling indifference to its human rights commitments.
In the 1850s, an influx of immigrants incited xenophobia in Americans. How did Abraham Lincoln, the GOP’s first president, react to the angry mood? A Civil War historian tells the tale.
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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, Monash University
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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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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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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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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Law, Member of Law as Protection Centre, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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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 Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
