Topic: Health

No.214 - 18 May 2012 THIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS

Asylum Seekers / Children & Youth / Disability / Gender & Sexuality / Health / Housing / Indigenous People / News / Race & Discrimination / (Leave a comment)

18 May 2012 Board member of VEOHRC offers resignation after opposing same-sex marriage Professor Kuravilla George has offered to resign from his position on the ... Read More

No.196 - 27 April 2012 THIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS

Children & Youth / Employment Rights / Gender & Sexuality / Health / Indigenous People / News / Prisoners' Rights / (Leave a comment)

27 April 2012 Indigenous communities in West face losing a generation The small community of Mowanjum, which is a 10 minute drive from mining hub ... Read More

No.191 - 6 April 2012 THIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS

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6 April 2012 Landmark Parliamentary Inquiry recommends capping length of asylum seeker detention A landmark parliamentary inquiry has found that all reasonable steps should be ... 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.159 - 28 February 2012 Battered, Bruised and Scarred: Prisoners, Accommodation and Reintegration

Health / Housing / Indigenous People / Prisoners' Rights / Women / (2 Comments)

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 ... Read More

No.158 - 27 February 2012 The ten-year roadmap for mental health reform and prisoner suicide prevention

Articles / Disability / Health / Prisoners' Rights / (1 Comment)

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 ... Read More

No.155 - 22 February 2012 Enabling or Disabling: Imprisoning People with Mental and Cognitive Disability

Articles / Asylum Seekers / Children & Youth / Disability / Health / Indigenous People / Prisoners' Rights / Women / (1 Comment)

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 ... Read More

No.151 - 17 February 2012 This Week’s Human Rights News

Disability / Health / International Affairs / News / Voting Rights / Women / (1 Comment)

17 February 2012 Report detailing raid that killed five Afghani children is suppressed by Defence Department The Age has reported that Australia’s Defence Minister, Stephen ... Read More

No.150 - 16 February 2012 The Prisoner as a Human Being

Articles / Bill of Rights / Education / Health / Prisoners' Rights / Race & Discrimination / (Leave a comment)

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

No.144 Overcrowding in Western Australia’s Prisons

Articles / Health / Indigenous People / Prisoners' Rights / (1 Comment)

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

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