Human Rights

Human Rights subcategories:

Resources

Speeches

Organisations

Latest human rights news and projects

· Read A Just Australia’s account of the Sri Lankans on Nauru

· 5 Papuan asylum seekers landed on Australian soil recently. They asked for protection. Australia detained them secretly for 3 weeks, then returned them to PNG. Kevin Andrews refused to consider their claim for protection. Andrews has now fallen to depths only achieved by Ruddock.

· Sri Lankans assessed to be refugees: will now be offered to other countries

· Sri Lankan asylum seekers held on Nauru: a message of desperation

· Stolen generation case succeeds: summary here; full judgment here

· Mr Ruddock on Ethics…

· A letter to the Australian public from the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Nauru

· The 14 characteristics of fascism: check Australia’s score

· After 5 years of falls, world refugee numbers are increasing, mainly because of Iraq: see latest UNHCR report

· Susan Metcalfe’s update on Nauru and Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’

· Long-term refugee freed after 5 years on Nauru

· First Report of the People's Inquiry into Immigration Detention

· Some Barbecue Facts about human rights and civil liberties in Australia

· The Charter of Rights in Victoria

· Campaign for a Bill of Rights in Australia: The Justice Project and
New Matilda Human Rights Act Campaign and human rights resources

· See ‘The Lives of Others’: a remarkable new film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck about the Stasi in East Germany. It won an Oscar for best foreign-language film. Lyrical, chilling, a great film.

· 82 Sri Lankans forcibly removed from Australia (Christmas Island) to Nauru. Here we go again.

· 8 Burmese held by Australia: return to danger or rot in Nauru

· Why can’t Australia help the last 21 Afghans held at our expense on Lombok?

· HREOC Observations following the Inspection of Mainland Immigration Detention Facilities

and a summary of those observations

· John Pilger writes of Australia’s shame in abandonning David Hicks

· Long-term refugee freed after 5 years on Nauru

· First Report of the People's Inquiry into Immigration Detention

· The Fremantle Declaration by Australia’s State and Territory Attorneys-General, and a challenge to Phillip Ruddock

· Speech for launch of Refugee Week, 22 October 2006

· Human rights and civil liberties in Australia: some Barbecue Facts. Welcome to Australia.

· An Inconvenient Truth: a remarkable film by Al Gore. If you do not see it, your children will not forgive you.

· Jack Thomas freed - ‘confession’excluded; even in the “war on terror” the authorities must obey the law
.read about the control order subsequently made against him

· New site: A good collection of human rights information and links at HumanRightsTools

· Read the landmark decision in Hamdan v Rumsfeld

· Recent case on the rights of people held in custody: Re Rigoli [2005] VSCA 325

· Victorian Court of Appeal encourages submissions based on
international human rights norms: Royal Womens Hospital v Medical Practice Board case

· Recent case on the rights of people held in custody: Re Rigoli [2005] VSCA 325

· Victorian Court of Appeal encourages submissions based on international human rights norms: Royal Womens Hospital v Medical Practice Board case

· The Centre for Constitutional Rights

Useful Links

· Amnesty International

· Amnesty International Australia

· Australian Lawyers for Human Rights

· Australians Against Racism

· Australians All

· Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (Australia)

· GetUp: Action for Australia

· Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of NSW (Australia)

· Global Rights (Washington USA)

· Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Australia)

· Human Rights Council (United Nations)

· Human Rights Council of Australia

· Human Rights Watch (New York)

· InterAction Council (International)

· New Matilda

· Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (United Nations)

· The Alliance of Civilizations