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There goes the neighbourhood: Australia and New Zealand destroying hope of a regional approach to asylum seekers
Guest Blogger: Alex Pagliaro, Amnesty International In recent days New Zealand has jumped on the Australian refugee policy bandwagon, announcing that it would resettle 150 of Australia’s refugees each year, and that any asylum seekers arriving in its own waters may be sent straight to Nauru or Manus Island in the future. Instead of heralding…
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Can Julian Assange be elected to Australia’s Parliament, and can Craig Thompson stay there?
Guest Blogger: Professor Graeme Orr, University of Queensland In the past week, one serving politician, Craig Thomson, was charged with a raft of complaints of fraud. And one would-be politician, Julian Assange, affirmed his intention to stand for the Senate, come Australia’s federal elections, scheduled for September. In different ways, each man’s position highlights quirks…
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Human rights and religion in Australian Law. Where does the balance lie?
Guest Blogger: Rachel Ball, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at the Human Rights Law Centre The recent release of the Federal Government’s draft Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill (HRAD) has reignited Australian debate about human rights, religion and the law. The current controversy is around the permanent exceptions in the HRAD which allow religious bodies to…
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A trafficking jam: How can China better address the serious problem of labour trafficking?
Guest Blogger: Sophia Kagan, Castan Centre Honorary Associate ‘Why are you focusing on a problem that affects so few people?’ asked my interviewee, an academic in rural migrant issues. ‘Even the media don’t bother reporting it – that’s how small an issue it is’. We are discussing trafficking for forced labour in China and my…
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The right to health, sexual violence and social change in India
Guest Blogger: Adrianne Walters, Castan Centre Global Intern At the start of December 2012, I arrived in Delhi to undertake a 3-month internship with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as part of the Castan Centre Global Internship Program. Mr Anand Grover, a…
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Freedom of Speech Going Backwards in Vietnam
By Andrew Nguyen On September 24, 2012 — exactly 30 years to the day after Vietnam became a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — three Vietnamese bloggers were convicted and sentenced to lengthy jail terms for “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” after a short trial that lasted only a…
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