The Cost of Voluntourism
Monique Hurley highlights concerns with the tourist volunteer – is it all worth it?
Monique Hurley highlights concerns with the tourist volunteer – is it all worth it?
Is “crowdfunding” the way forward for putting money behind human rights advancements? Fiona So thinks so.
Are boycotts an expression of economic freedom? Are they useful? Marta Skrabacz looks at some recent examples of boycotting to offer some answers
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.
Erin McGinty offers an explainer on the theory and recent practice of military interventions in the name of human rights protection
Dario Mujkic considers the “individualism” in rights discourse, the challenges of isolation and conflict that this poses, and the silver lining that is solidarity
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.
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
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”.
Joo-Cheong Tham warns against the expectation of “magic bullets” in tackling complex rights issues, in an article originally published in Right Now Magazine.
André Dao on the language of rights, its potential limitations and its true aim.
Dario Mujkic explains the concerns with Australia’s rare earth mining in Malaysia, and the irony of using social media to put a stop to it.