Freedom Street: A Documentary Journey into the Australian Border policy
Filmmaker Alfred Pek and journalist JN Joniad discuss Freedom Street, their ongoing documentary project into the lives of refugees in Indonesia
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Human trafficking: Twenty years on from the Palermo Protocol, how do we account for progress?
Companies are facing increased scrutiny over modern slavery, but where do we stand on human trafficking?
From the ‘rule of law’ to ‘rule by fear’: Hong Kong’s National Security Law
Hong Kong’s new National Security Law must be understood as a transnational, as well as a local mechanism for repression.
Is Australia a safe haven for war criminals and torturers?
This month marked 22 years since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court but Australia is still not living up to the promise of international justice.
Everyone deserves to be safe during a pandemic, including people in prison
To stop the spread of COVID-19 and to save lives, we need to responsibly release people from prisons.
Dean Yates on compassion and the pilots of Crazy Horse 1-8
Dean Yates, former Reuters Bureau Chief in Iraq, reflects on the deaths of Reuters staff in 2007 and what it taught him about PTSD and compassion.
Why do asylum seekers continue to receive second rate care from the federal government?
Delays in medical treatment lead to avoidable suffering for those in Australia’s immigration detention system.
The right to protest during the pandemic
To protest or not to protest, what is deemed essential when we can’t afford to wait for change?
Australia’s moral obligation to military interpreters
You learn a lot about yourself when you are gifted the opportunity to see the human condition stripped of any defining anchors, writes the former army captain.
Citizenship Denied: Two Million in India Face an Uncertain Future
India’s Hindu nationalist government has put in place two pieces of legislation that could lead to the biggest crisis of citizenship since World War II.
A critical turning point for First Nations justice
We have decades of evidence that spells out what governments must do to save blak lives, so how do we use it?
Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame
“It is not enough to hear about justice, justice must be done,” writes Alison Whittaker in this piece for The Conversation.