Topic: Women

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

Asylum Seekers / Bill of Rights / Employment Rights / Fair Trial Rights / Indigenous People / International Affairs / News / Race & Discrimination / Women / (Leave a comment)

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

Articles / Children & Youth / Features / Gender & Sexuality / Housing / Indigenous People / Topics / Women / (1 Comment)

This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... 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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This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... Read More

No.115 This Week’s Human Rights News

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18 November 2011 Historical Equal Pay Agreement It has been announced that the Federal Government and the Australian Services Union will make a joint submission ... Read More

No.113 This Week’s Human Rights News

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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.104 Panel – CNN Freedom Project

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It was sad to attend a panel on ending slavery in 2011. This is a chapter of history that should have been closed; yet tragically ... Read More

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