Topic: Women

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.154 - 21 February 2012 ANU Law Students at the ACT’s Corrections Centre

Bill of Rights / Education / Interviews / Prisoners' Rights / Women / (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 ... 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.148 An End to Prisons – Poster Art

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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.146 This Week’s Human Rights News

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9 February 2012 Australian Lawyer’s Alliance warns of risk of increase in Indigenous incarceration rates The Australian Lawyers alliance has warned that high incarceration rates ... Read More

No.135 This week’s human rights news

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5 January 2012 Record increase in number of women on company boards Australia has recently set a record for the number of women joining big ... Read More

No.131 Family Violence and Homelessness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

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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.126 Lecture – Eliminating Violence Against Women

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On 28 November 2011, Jeffrey L. Bleich, the current US Ambassador to Australia, presented the annual Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Public Lecture at the University ... Read More

No.124 Lecture – Are States Meeting Their Responsibilities to Trafficked Persons?

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Each year a leader in the field of human rights presents a lecture jointly hosted by Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and ... Read More

No.123 The Home in Human Rights

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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

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