Recent developments at the United Nations and the G-20 suggest that the well-known human rights to privacy and freedom of expression may soon be formally extended to online communications.
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The British government is actually suggesting quite a radical change as part of leaving the EU, but it doesn’t want to make it too easy to understand.
In 1981, many criticized Ronald Reagan’s nominee to head human rights initiatives in the State Department. Here is how activists mobilized to ensure the nomination was rejected.
Mexico has signed every international human rights treaty, but abuses are still rife.
The UK government plans to suspend parts of the European Convention on Human Rights in future conflicts.
In an increasingly mobile society and economy, the international governance of migrant labour lags way behind the forces of globalisation.
We tend instinctively to value human lives over non-human ones. But is there a point where the scales might tip the other way?
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?
The recent revelations about the savage treatment of Yazidi women at the hands of Islamic State, or ISIS, fighters is the latest in a shocking set of disclosures regarding the group’s behavior. It sadly…
Government could be forced to repeal DRIPA surveillance legislation after court ruling.
No-one is inclined to refer to human rights in public debate in Australia when its leaders either avoid the idea or attack it, and the news media are silent on it.
Saudi Arabia has upheld a blogger’s flogging sentence, in defiance of international pressure. How long will this go on?
Cameron backs down on plans to cut ties with Europe to avoid a backbench revolt – but this isn’t over.
The question of furnishing non-human animals with rights normally reserves for humans is more complex than it might seem.
Australia’s human rights record isn’t perfect, but it still good. if Australians aren’t able to take some pride in that and be inspired to do even better, over-the-top criticism could backfire.
The UN has been mulling how to keep our biggest corporations in check for about 40 years. The fear is that the latest move by countries down the supply chain will fail to make any headway.
Should robots be treated with the same concern as any other intelligent being? Or are they unnatural, dangerous, to be eliminated?
Australia’s breaches of international human rights law are increasingly coming to the UN’s attention.
It is bitterly ironic that in this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, there are threats from the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is Europe’s own Magna…
David Cameron is riding into the 2015 election campaign with a promise to finally fulfil one of the Conservatives’ 2010 manifesto commitments: to repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act, restore the sovereignty…
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Law, researcher in international law, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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