No.139 This Week’s Human Rights News
26 January 2012 Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary Demonstrations Australia Day this year marked the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Tent embassy was founded ... Read More
Topic: Gender & Sexuality
No.131 Family Violence and Homelessness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
This month’s theme – homelessness – is one that affects all communities. One of the most common causes of homelessness in Australia is domestic and family ... Read More
No.127 This Week’s Human Rights News
8 December 2011 Labor Party to support gay marriage The Australian Labor Party has made an historic vote to change its platform to support gay ... Read More
No.123 The Home in Human Rights
The idea of “home” hosts many metaphors. Home is our “haven”, “sanctuary”, “nest”, “refuge” and “escape”. Home is our “domain”, “habitat”, “kingdom” and “abode”. At ... Read More
No.113 This Week’s Human Rights News
10 November 2011 Release of report on women’s treatment in the ADFA The Australian Sex discrimination Commissioner has released a report that examines the treatment ... Read More
No.64 Development’s Underbelly: Sex Work and Women’s Rights in Iraqi Kurdistan
Thanks to our friends at Voiceworks we’re pleased to present the following article by Bridget Chappell, a young Australian writer, on the criminalisation of sex ... Read More
No.63 “Separate but equal” insufficient for marriage equality
So what’s all the fuss with marriage equality? In Australia, the “gay marriage” issue has continued to saturate media and political debate. For some, marriage ... Read More
No.54 UN Human Rights Council passes historic gay rights resolution
21 June 2011 On Friday 17 June, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution on the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people ... Read More
No.45(2) AIDS and Religion: ‘The Wave of Hate Must Stop’ Part II
Read Part I of this article here. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? There are no easy solutions to the challenges that HIV/AIDS presents today to organised ... Read More
No.45(1) AIDS and Religion: ‘The Wave of Hate Must Stop’ Part I
In 2010 Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa declared that the time had come, particularly for ... Read More