Is Economic Equality a Human Right?
In a time when Australia commits through its budget to exacerbate inequality, Alistair Robertson asks whether the language of human rights can express the demand for economic equality.
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Seeing Refugees – Remembering Tiananmen Twenty-Five Years On
What can Australia’s response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre tell us about where we are at today? Tim Robertson, based in Beijing, provides an illuminating historical comparison of refugees then and now.
Editorial – Timor-Leste
Check out the articles from Right Now’s recent Issue on Timor-Leste, one of Australia’s closest neighbours
The Cost of Voluntourism
Monique Hurley highlights concerns with the tourist volunteer – is it all worth it?
Crowdfunding for a better world
Is “crowdfunding” the way forward for putting money behind human rights advancements? Fiona So thinks so.
The “Mess and Noise” of Boycotts
Are boycotts an expression of economic freedom? Are they useful? Marta Skrabacz looks at some recent examples of boycotting to offer some answers
Poetic Justice out now!
Right Now is excited to announce that we are launching a print anthology. Called Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights, the anthology is a celebration of the best human rights writing and art from the Right Now online magazine.
Intervening for the Protection of Human Rights: is a military strategy necessary?
Erin McGinty offers an explainer on the theory and recent practice of military interventions in the name of human rights protection
Individual rights and solidarity
Dario Mujkic considers the “individualism” in rights discourse, the challenges of isolation and conflict that this poses, and the silver lining that is solidarity
Who’s your nanny? Exploitation, choice and migrant childcare workers
Childcare in Australia is notoriously expensive. The Indonesian Institute has proposed that the Australian government should enable Australian families to hire Indonesian nannies as domestic migrant workers – for $200 per week.
Editorial – Human Rights Critiques
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
The Sons of SAM (Securities Against Misrule)
Are rights being used to confuse political discussions, to camouflage the real operations of exceptional politics? In this short exegesis of two of rights criticism’s founding fathers, Justin Clemens asks whether rights have become an “anti-political principle”.