Feature Essay
Gillian Terzis, Close Encounters
In today’s networked world, we’re simultaneously better connected and further away from each than ever before. War and its aftermath are no exception. Gillian Terzis looks at how modern technology mediates our perception of war and asks, what’s the difference between bearing witness to an atrocity and being a voyeur?
Articles
Sayomi Ariyawansa, Boats of Diplomacy: Where to From Here for Indonesia and Australia?
How will Joko Widodo react to Australia’s asylum seeker policies?
Philip Marquet, International Commercial Surrogacy in the Post-Gammy World
Can commercial surrogacy sit comfortably with human rights?
Bianca De Bortoli, Digging for Dirt: The Nexus Between Mining, Oil & Gas Industries and Human Rights
Bianca De Bortoli explains how corporate compliance, corporate complicity and corporate social responsibility
interact regarding human rights and the extractive industry.
Terry Elward, Ahmed’s Story
Ahmed, 27, is a Syrian refugee. He escaped Syria seeking asylum in Jordan and Turkey.
He entered Greece with the help of smugglers and is finally safe in Sweden.
This is his story.
Lucy Neville and Ricardo Villarreal, Voices from Ayotzinapa
As Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto arrived in Brisbane for the G-20 economic summit, members of the 3,500-strong Mexican community in Australia were gathering on the streets to protest
the massacre of 43 students from Ayotzinapa.
Heidi Zajac, The Tales of Food in Timor Leste
Cultural identity in contemporary Timor Leste.
Siamak Sam Loni, Climate Change and Human Rights Violations in Darfur.
Siamak Sam Loni describes the threat that ecological and climate factors pose to human rights, even escalating into violent conflict as in the case of Darfur.
Reviews
Sonia Nair, Human Suffering Through the Eyes of a War Photographer
War Story deftly delves into the post-traumatic life of an embattled war photographer.
Sonia Nair, Laying Old Ghosts to Rest
Surviving Year Zero is one of many personal accounts to surface in recent times detailing the travesties that were committed under the despotic Pol Pot administration.
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Feature image: UNHCR via Flickr
