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Book Synopsis Human Rights in Australia by : Justin Healey
Download or read book Human Rights in Australia written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Book Synopsis Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia by : Jon Piccini
Download or read book Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia written by Jon Piccini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are surveyed, who translated global ideas into local settings and made meaning of a foreign discourse to suit local concerns and predilections. These individuals created new organisations to spread the message of human rights or found older institutions amenable to their newfound concerns, adopting rights language with a mixture of enthusiasm and opportunism. Governments, on the other hand, engaged with or ignored human rights as its shifting meanings, international currency and domestic reception ebbed and flowed. Finally, individuals understood and (re)translated human rights ideas throughout this period: writing letters, books or poems and sympathising in new, global ways.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Human Rights in Australia by : Louise Chappell
Download or read book The Politics of Human Rights in Australia written by Louise Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the key debates surrounding human rights in Australia: Should Australia adopt a bill of rights in an 'age of terror'? How well protected are workers' rights? The Politics of Human Rights in Australia shows that Australians enjoy only a loose and incomplete safety net of rights protection.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia by : Paula Gerber
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia written by Paula Gerber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by :
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19 by : Augusto Zimmermann
Download or read book Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19 written by Augusto Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Human Rights in Australia by : Eileen Pittaway
Download or read book Human Rights in Australia written by Eileen Pittaway and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Know Your Rights and Claim Them by : Amnesty International
Download or read book Know Your Rights and Claim Them written by Amnesty International and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a guide for every young person who believes in a better world for all"—Malala Yousafzai Adults are aware of their universal human rights of freedom and equality, but children often are ignorant of the rights they possess before reaching the age of majority. Enter Know Your Rights and Claim Them, written in partnership with Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren. Know Your Rights and Claim Them details the rights promised in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, starting with the history of child rights, and providing a clear description of the types of child rights, the young activists from around the world who fought to defend them, and how readers can stand up for their own rights. "This is the perfect book for young people who care about the world and want to make a difference"—Greta Thunberg
Book Synopsis The Right to Have Rights by : Stephanie DeGooyer
Download or read book The Right to Have Rights written by Stephanie DeGooyer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Remote Freedoms by : Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
Download or read book Remote Freedoms written by Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Visualising Human Rights by : Jane Lydon
Download or read book Visualising Human Rights written by Jane Lydon and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Rights of Children and Young People by : Justin Healey
Download or read book Rights of Children and Young People written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and young people have a fundamental right to be heard and taken seriously about matters affecting them. They have the same general human rights as adults, but also possess specific rights that recognise their special needs and potential. This book explains how these rights are set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. It also examines the state of children’s rights in Australia, where there have been some positive developments, but also a number of critical issues and mixed results. The latest progress reports recommend that Australia improves its treatment of vulnerable children in certain areas, including reducing youth detention, raising the age of criminal responsibility, supporting youth mental health, advancing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, caring for asylum seeker and refugee children, addressing child abuse and neglect, and eliminating youth poverty. What are the rights of parents in relation to raising their children, and why is it still legal for adults to hit children as punishment? A gap remains between the rights Australia has promised vulnerable children and how those rights are implemented. Are the human rights of our children and young people at risk?
Book Synopsis Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them by : Geoffrey Robertson
Download or read book Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them written by Geoffrey Robertson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Human Rights under the Australian Constitution by : George Williams
Download or read book Human Rights under the Australian Constitution written by George Williams and published by OUP Australia & New Zealand. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Rights under the Australian Constitution is the leading text on how the Australian Constitution protects human rights. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the key public law principles, including the full range of express and implied rights in the Australian Constitution. It does this within a broader context, including the drafting and origins of the Australian Constitution and the interaction of constitutional principles with the common law, statute law and international law.
Book Synopsis National Human Rights Consultation Report by :
Download or read book National Human Rights Consultation Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Rights Overboard by : Linda Briskman
Download or read book Human Rights Overboard written by Linda Briskman and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen’s inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australia’s immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad-ranging investigation into immigration detention, and the operations within detention centres had been largely shrouded in official secrecy. The People’s Inquiry into Detention (as it came to be called) heard heartbreaking evidence about asylum-seekers’ journeys to Australia, their refugee determination process, and their life in and after detention. In total, around 200 people testified to the inquiry, and a similar number of written submissions were received. Human Rights Overboard draws together, for the first time, the oral testimony and written submissions from the inquiry in a powerful and vital book that stands as an indictment of Australia’s refugee policy. Clearly and comprehensively presented, the book is a haunting journey guided by voices from every side of the fence: former and current immigration detainees, refugee advocates, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, and former detention and immigration staff. Taken together, their stories record a humanitarian disaster that sounds a warning to current and future policy makers, both here and overseas. With a foreword by prominent humanitarian lawyer Julian Burnside, Human Rights Overboard is an essential book that will resonate for years to come.
Book Synopsis Regulating Racism by : Luke McNamara
Download or read book Regulating Racism written by Luke McNamara and published by Institute of Criminology, Sydney. This book was released on 2002 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 New South Wales became the first Australian state to pass legislation outlawing racial vilification. By 2001 the Commonwealth and the majority of Australian states and territories had followed suit, suggesting a broadly held view that racism was a sufficiently serious problem in Australian society to warrant the imposition of legislative restrictions and sanctions on conduct which generated ill-feeling against particular racial or ethnic groups. And yet, throughout this period the legal regulation of racial vilification has been controversial, with each new legislative reform initiative prompting heated debate. Regulating Racism provides a comprehensive examination of the history and current operation of federal, state and territorial racial vilification laws in Australia. Based on detailed analysis of relevant reports, legislation, parliamentary debates, statistical data, and judicial and quasi-judicial decisions, it reviews the range of approaches to the legal regulation of racial vilification which have been adopted in this country, including the creation of: criminal offences; statutory torts; and grounds of human rights complaint. The book addresses a number of key questions about the origins and operation of racial vilification laws. Why were different legislative models chosen? What are the implications of those choices for victims of racial vilification? What impact have free speech 'rights' and values had on the approach which Australian law-makers have adopted towards the regulation of racial vilification? How have racial vilification laws been applied and interpreted by human rights agencies, prosecuting authorities, tribunals and courts? Regulating Racism evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to the legal regulation of racial vilification which have been utilised to date in Australia. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role and limits of racial vilification laws in a democratic multicultural society.
