Human Rights
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Australia must do more to ensure Myanmar is preventing genocide against the Rohingya
Since then, Amnesty International has questioned whether Myanmar has been fully transparent in its reporting on its compliance with the…
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Four Kurdish-Iranians who died while crossing the Channel were part of the same family
Four people who died when their boat capsized as they tried to cross the English Channel from France to Britain…
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Poland abortion ruling sparks ‘women’s strike’
Crowds have protested in several cities for the seventh-day running against the decision that outlawed terminations on the grounds of…
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COVID-19 measures expose ‘potentially unnecessary’ breaches on rights, AHRC says
In a speech to the Senate estimates, Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) president Professor Rosalind Croucher AM warned all governments…
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George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom – Online Symposium (6)
With: Dr. Jennifer Webb, Melbourne, Australia – Mr. George Ph Georgiou, S. Africa / W. Australia – Dr. Luli Callinicos,…
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Nine weeks of bloodshed: how brutal policing of Kenya’s Covid curfew left 15 dead
Anervous energy filled downtown Mombasa on the afternoon of 27 March. John-Allan Namu in Nairobi and Tess Riley The Guardian…
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Human rights violations in Artsakh persist amid diplomatic efforts
Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov held separate one-on-one, closed-door meetings with US Secretary… The Armenian Weekly…
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Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
The next test will be whether the result entrenches minority grievances that fuel armed conflict or revives reform efforts to…
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Online Symposium: George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom
This symposium is free and open to the public. Details: 1) The Online Symposium can be accessed via Zoom /…
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‘Chilling attack on democracy’: proposed Asio powers could be used against journalists
Journalists and advocacy groups could face compulsory questioning by Asio as part of a proposed expansion of the spy agency’s…
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Asylum seeker ‘unlawfully deprived’ of liberty by Alan Tudge sues for false imprisonment
Last month, the Federal Court found Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge had “unlawfully deprived” the man of his liberty, after…
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If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia
Over the past couple of decades, government regulation has failed to keep pace with an increasingly privatised market of for-profit…
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Calls for euthanasia fuelled by ageism and ableism
Kathleen Rogers has a terminal illness – motor neurone disease. Breda O’Brien The Irish Times Coping with a terminal diagnosis is…
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India’s caste system is under scrutiny after the mysterious cremation of an alleged rape victim
It had been two weeks since a 19-year-old woman had been allegedly raped and assaulted by four men from her…
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From Bangladesh to Bomana prison: The seven-year ordeal of an asylum seeker named Spicy
Papua New Guinea deported him. Steven Trask SBS News Then he returned… From Bangladesh to…
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Block China’s seat on human rights council over Uighurs, urges Lisa Nandy
Britain must oppose giving China a seat on the UN’s human rights body this week in protest at its abuse…
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