No.147 Indigenous Juvenile Detention: Australia’s Neglected Crisis
This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. ... Read More
Topic: Children & Youth
No.141 This Week’s Human Rights News
2 February 2012 Alarming increase in detention rates among young Indigenous people Yesterday, Greens Senator Penny Wright drew attention to the alarming increase in the ... Read More
No.131 Family Violence and Homelessness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... Read More
No.126 Lecture – Eliminating Violence Against Women
On 28 November 2011, Jeffrey L. Bleich, the current US Ambassador to Australia, presented the annual Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Public Lecture at the University ... Read More
No.124 Lecture – Are States Meeting Their Responsibilities to Trafficked Persons?
Each year a leader in the field of human rights presents a lecture jointly hosted by Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and ... Read More
No.123 The Home in Human Rights
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... Read More
No.121 Matching Children with Compassion
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... Read More
No.114 Launch – Visioning Justice
The Visioning Justice radio documentary project was recently launched at the Arena Project Space. Magistrate Pauline Spencer officially opened the launch, with performances by Still ... Read More
No.104 Panel – CNN Freedom Project
It was sad to attend a panel on ending slavery in 2011. This is a chapter of history that should have been closed; yet tragically ... Read More
No.78 Report Highlights Indigenous Disadvantage
25 August 2011 Increases in Indigenous people in the criminal justice system, child abuse and chronic disease highlight the widening of the gap between Indigenous and ... Read More