Human Rights in Australia
Human Rights in Australia

Author: Justin Healey

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781925339581

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Human rights recognise the inherent value of every person, regardless of our respective backgrounds, where we live, what we look like, what we think or what we believe. These rights are based on universal principles of dignity, equality and mutual respect, and are shared across cultures, religions and philosophies. Human rights are about being treated fairly, treating others fairly and being able to make choices about our own lives. Australia was recently elected to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, however its own human rights record is not without controversy, attracting international and domestic scrutiny. What are Australia's international and domestic human rights obligations and how are they being addressed in relation to a number of issues such as asylum seeker detention, racial discrimination, free speech, indigenous advancement, juvenile incarceration, disability rights, gender equality and same-sex marriage? Does Australia need to lift its game on human rights if it is to be taken seriously on the international stage?

Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia
Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia

Author: Paula Gerber

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780455229973

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A scholarly examination of the most important human rights issues facing Australia today. For scholars and practitioners, and who wish to increase their understanding, it provides timely and provocative perspectives on the law and policy regarding the application of human rights standards in Australia. Authors from Monash University.

The Politics of Human Rights in Australia
The Politics of Human Rights in Australia

Author: Louise Chappell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-05-28

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0521707749

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The first comprehensive account of Australian human rights from a political science perspective, it addresses the key debates in Australian political debates about human rights.

The Right to Have Rights
The Right to Have Rights

Author: Stephanie DeGooyer

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1784787523

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Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there must first be such a thing as "the right to have rights". The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, the phrase has become the centre of a crucial and lively debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines-including history, law, politics, and literary studies-discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.

Remote Freedoms
Remote Freedoms

Author: Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781503605107

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Introduction : indigenous rights as human rights in central Australia -- The act of translation : emancipatory potential and apocryphal revelations -- Engendering social and cultural rights -- "Stop whinging and get on with it" : the shifting contours of gender equality (and equity) -- "Women go to the clinic and men go to jail" : the gendered indigenised subject of legal rights -- Therapy culture and the intentional subject -- Civil and political rights : is there space for an Aboriginal politics? -- International human rights forums and (east coast) indigenous activism

Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19
Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19

Author: Augusto Zimmermann

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-28

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9781922449375

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CONTENTS 1. Introduction - Fundamental Rights in the Age of Covid-19 -- Augusto Zimmermann & Joshua Forrester 2. Reflecting upon the Costs of Lockdown -- Rex Ahdar 3. Politicians, the Press and "Skin in the Game" -- James Allan 4. An Analysis of Victoria's Public Health Emergency Laws -- Morgan Begg 5. Only the Australian People Can Clean up the Mess: A Call for People's Constitutional Review -- David Flint AM 6. Covid-19, Border Restrictions and Section 92 of the Australian Constitution -- Anthony Gray 7. Blurred Lines Between Freedom of Religion and Protection of Public Health in Covid-19 Era - Italy and Poland in Comparative Perspective -- Weronika Kudla & Grzegorz Jan Blicharz 8. The Dictatorship of the Health Bureaucracy: Governments Must Stop Telling Us What Is for Our Own Good -- Rocco Loiacono 9. The Role of the State in the Protection of Public Health: The Covid-19 Pandemic -- Gabriël A. Moens AM 10. Corona, Culture, Caesar and Christ -- Bill Muehlenberg 11. The Age of Covid-19: Protecting Rights Matter -- Monika Nagel 12. Molinism, Covid-19 and Human Responsibility -- Johnny M. Sakr 13. Interposition: Magistrates as Shields against Tyranny -- Steven Alan Samson 14. Destroying Liberty: Government by Decree -- William Wagner 15. The Virus of Governmental Oppression: How the Australian Ruling Elites are Jeopardising both Democracy and our Health -- Augusto Zimmermann

Visualising Human Rights
Visualising Human Rights

Author: Jane Lydon

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781742589978

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When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, photography was considered a 'universal language' that would communicate across barriers of race and culture. 70 years later it is timely to examine the cultural impact of the framework of human rights through visual culture. Images are a crucial way of disseminating ideas, creating a sense of proximity between peoples across the globe, and reinforcing notions of a shared humanity. Yet visual culture can also define boundaries between people, supporting perceived hierarchies of race, gender, and culture, and justifying arguments for conquest and oppression. Only in recent years have scholars begun to argue for new notions of photography and culture that turn our attention to our responsibilities as viewers, or an ethics of spectatorship. This book explores questions surrounding the historical reception of human rights via imagery and its legacies in the present. Visualising Human Rights is about the diverse ways that visual images have been used to define, contest, or argue on behalf of human rights. It brings together leading scholars to examine visual practices surrounding human rights around the globe.

Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them
Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them

Author: Geoffrey Robertson

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1760145610

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Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings. But there is an alternative. The Plan B for human rights looks back to national laws to name, blame and shame abusers. It strips them of their right to enter democratic nations, and of ill-gotten funds they seek to deposit in global banks; and it bars them and their families from schools and hospitals in these countries. This book explains the background and potential of these laws, which have been called Magnitsky Laws, after Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in a Russian jail after exposing state corruption. Early versions of them have been introduced in the US, Canada and Britain, and they are now being considered in Australia. Geoffrey Robertson argues in this book that the Magnitsky movement offers a potent solution to crimes being committed against humanity, whether in America, Russia, China or Belarus. These abuses are a concern for all human beings, and good people are no longer prepared to tolerate them, in their own country or elsewhere in the world. The Magnitsky laws can show the way forward for the global justice movement in the twenty-first century.