We review two films from the upcoming Transitions Film Festival: WEB, which looks at the impact of the internet in a isolated Peruvian villages; and Easy Like Water, about the use of boats as schools in Bangladesh.
Amy Barry-Macaulay explains government policy based on engagement, and the need for it now more than ever.
When it comes to significant shifts in culture, law and society are poised in an agonising “chicken or egg” scenario. Does the law change from above, trickling down to alter a culture? Or does a movement rise up, demand, fight, lobby for a change to which the law eventually concedes? It’s a dynamic relationship that doesn’t obey a strict rule of cause and effect.
Right Now looks at the major parties’ policies on five noteworthy human rights issues of this election. Today, marriage equality, asylum seekers and climate change.
By Angelica Neville. This article is part of our July 2013 focus on “Australia in the World”. Click here for more articles in this issue. Defence White Papers are produced to let the general public know what the Australian military finds scary or relevant in the current global situation. The most recent Defence White Paper, released […]
By Maya Borom. Right Now movie reviewer Maya Chanthaphavong previews her three picks from the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival: Rawer, Words of Witness and Law of the Jungle. More of Right Now’s coverage of HRAFF. Rawer Rawer, by Anneloek Sollart, follows a mother, Francis, and her 14 year old son Tom’s fight against […]
This article is part of a series responding to films featured at the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. More of Right Now’s coverage of HRAFF. By Kate Galloway Law of the Jungle tells the story of the fight of Indigenous Peruvians to protect their land from the ravages of the oil industry. In what […]
By Will Mooney. The concept of land rights is well entrenched in contemporary understandings of Indigenous people’s struggle for sovereignty and respect, but how many of us understand the importance of water rights to Aboriginal communities? In 2013, the International Year of Water Cooperation, it is vital that we address the exclusion of Indigenous needs […]
By Liz Jakimow. This article is part of our February 2013 focus on Religion and Human Rights. Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild […]
As 2012 comes to a close, our editors look back at the year that was. We’ve focused far and wide, as our monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) themes reveal. And, since our transformation from print in 2011 we’ve published over 300 articles. This is our last article for the year, but we’ve collected enough reading here to […]
By Angus Baird “The very notion of domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human”- Murray Bookchin. Standing alone in Lingham Lane I was confronted by a media work by Yendell Walton. Initially it appeared to be of poor composition and of very sloppy technical execution. This was […]
By Hsin-Yi Lo. This article is part of our August theme, which focuses on the environment and human rights. Read more articles on this theme. “All individuals are entitled to live in an environment adequate for their health and well-being“. Australia’s mining boom has attracted many local and international mining companies. International companies such as BHP Billiton, […]