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Articles on Religious discrimination
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An EU court’s ruling on religious freedom in the workplace demonstrates the perils of legislating for 27 member states.
Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
Iran’s ongoing legal campaign to persecute marginalized groups highlights the pressing need to include human rights in any bilateral and multilateral negotiations over the nuclear deal.
The transitional government has achieved a monumental milestone, but peace agreements in Sudan have been known to fall apart quickly.
When a shipload of puritan colonisers set sail for the New World, maritime science and navigation were fairly unsophisticated.
COVID-19 has delayed progress on a religious discrimination bill. A new study warns countries like Australia are not the bastions of religious freedom we think they are.
To afford sufficient protection to marginalised people in society - such as women in minority religious communities - the state must recognise and regulate religious marriages in a nuanced way.
A round-the-clock strike of Muslim women in a working-class neighborhood of Delhi is India’s most enduring pocket of resistance to religious discrimination, inequality and gender violence.
Amid the hyper-political debate on issues like religious discrimination, we sometimes lose sight of the broader direction of discrimination law and the need for thoughtful, strategic reform.
As evangelicalism spreads across Brazil, some of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious gangs see minority religions as an affront to God. And they’re using guns to spread their gospel.
Rather than asking, “How can we best address religious discrimination in Australia?”, Christian Porter is saying, “This is what we’re doing about religious discrimination; any objections?”.
This proposed bill goes much further than other discrimination laws and weakens existing protections for many Australians.
Michelle Grattan discusses the increasing strain on the Australia-China relationship following the arrest of Dr. Yang Hengjun, and the government’s draft religious discrimination legislation.
Given the unique aspects of the proposed bill, there should be a longer consultation period to examine why religious freedoms should be prioritised over other freedoms.
Under the government’s draft religious discrimination legislation, big companies would face tougher rules in relation to indirect discrimination.
It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
Muslims make up 9% of France’s population and half of all its prisoners – many convicted on drug charges. But social justice isn’t part of the country’s growing debate on legalization.
Christian leaders warned of ‘persecution’ with a Labor government. Now that the Coalition has won the election, conservative Christians may demand Morrison deliver on more of their agenda.
Folau has sought a full code of conduct committee hearing to decide his future with Rugby Australia. Depending on how the tribunal rules, the case could be heading to federal court next.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Tropical Regional Development, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, James Cook University
