Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Human Rights
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have challenged our thinking around what it means to be human. Kate Galloway asks, ‘What do they mean for human rights?’
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Can Social Media Campaigns Solve Real Life Problems?
Sarah George, co-ordinator of the national education program “Five Facts You Didn’t Know About ‘Boat People’”, tackles social media, online protesting and planning a popular campaign.
The Global Citizen Journalist
On technology, smart phones, journalism, and the representation of voices from the South – Lyndal Rowlands talks to Australia’s DRC-born Eric Mwamba. The first in our forthcoming Issue on Technology and Human Rights.
Life in Limbo
Laura O’Neill describes the situation on the ground for asylum seekers in Indonesia now that Australia is “deterring” boat arrivals – work rights, UNHCR processing, access to education and the threat of deportation or detention once refugee claims are rejected.
Punishment for Punishment’s Sake: the new guiding principles of Australia’s immigration policy
Besmellah Rezaee on the ins and outs of Australia’s ever-changing refugee laws. Where are we now? Where are we headed?
Promises, Promises: What’s in a promise?
In the wake of recent revelations that Australia has turned at least two boats of asylum seekers back to Indonesia, Clarrie Burke looks at both the history and the current unfolding of the Coalition promise to “stop the boats”.
Trailblazer Profile: Nova Peris
For the month of December, Right Now has published content with a focus on Human Rights and Cultural Shift. So where would we be without the movers and the shakers? Isabella Royce answers this and other questions in her profile of trailblazer Nova Peris, the first female indigenous politician elected to national parliament.
Living Indigenous Languages
At the time of European settlement, around 250 Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia. Just 200 years later, it is estimated only 20 are widely spoken. Allison Worrall investigates the role of education in maintaining and revitalising Indigenous languages.
Reporting Mental Illness the SANE way
No media outlet would ever run a story featuring the N word as an adjective. Maddie Smith asks whether the same can be said for disparaging descriptions of mental illness.
Politics versus Policy: are we heading in the right direction?
Amy Barry-Macaulay explains government policy based on engagement, and the need for it now more than ever.
Scrutinising the Fourth Estate
Melissa Reid looks at media coverage of Kony and asylum seekers to ask, does our fast-paced media culture need to change?
NGOs, government censorship and you
NGOs need the freedom and independence to criticise government policies where necessary but the high rate of government outsourcing to the NGO sector is putting this independence at risk. Asher Hirsch explains.