No.204 - 8 May 2012 Clothing and Punishment: Cultural Rights in Australia
One of the most problematic areas of international human rights law is the right to culture. It is ambiguous, yet the right to culture manifests ... Read More
Topic: Religion
No.185 - 28 March 2012 Protecting Against Racial (or Religious?) Vilification
This article is part of our March theme, which focuses on an ongoing challenge to Australian society: Race & Discrimination. Read our Editorial for more ... Read More
No.183 - 23 March 2012 THIS WEEK’S HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS
23 March 2012 Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights Established The Australian Federal Parliament this week established the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights following the ... Read More
No.87 School Chaplains Challenge Heard at the High Court
9 September 2011 The constitutional challenge to the Government’s funding of the National School Chaplaincy Program in Williams v Commonwealth and Ors continues as lawyers ... Read More
No.72 Interview with Professor Yasmeen
On Friday 22 July 2011, Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Conference was held in Melbourne. Samina Yasmeen, Director of Centre for ... Read More
No.51 Victorian Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill Passes Upper House
DATE: 15 June 2011 The Victorian Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill passed the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament earlier this morning, following five hours of ... Read More
No.19 Changes to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 2010
DATE: 6 MAY 2011 Yesterday, the Victorian Government introduced amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 in parliament. These changes reduce the ability of the ... Read More
No.16 High Court Challenge to Religious Education
DATE: 27th of April 2011 The federally funded National School Chaplaincy Program (NSCP) is facing a constitutional challenge in the High Court. Ron Williams, a concerned ... Read More
No.5 The burqa or the ban: which is worse?
For a garment designed to conceal, the burqa has managed to attract more than its fair share of attention. In France, where the burqa is ... Read More