Topic: Environment

No.201 - 4 May 2012 THIS WEEKS HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS

Asylum Seekers / Children & Youth / Environment / Housing / Indigenous People / International Affairs / News / Prisoners' Rights / Race & Discrimination / (2 Comments)

4 May 2012 Announcement of new Commonwealth Children’s Commissioner The Commonwealth Attorney-General has announced that the Government will appoint a Children’s Commissioner to sit within ... Read More

No.187 - 31 March 2012 THIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS

Asylum Seekers / Environment / Expression / Health / Indigenous People / News / Prisoners' Rights / (Leave a comment)

31 March 2012 Federal and Northern Territory Governments announce increased funding to homelands Amnesty International has for quite some time called on both the Federal ... Read More

No.68 Community consultation on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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29 July 2011 This week, the ACT Attorney-General, Mr Simon Corbell, launched community consultation and called for submissions on the question of whether the protection ... Read More

No.30 Film – There Once Was an Island

Art / Asylum Seekers / Environment / Reviews / (1 Comment)

Takuu – also known as the Mortlock Islands – is an isolated atoll 250 kilometres northeast of Bougainville, falling within the political territory of Papua ... Read More