A global human rights imagination?
Why it is that historians are only now starting to talk about human rights? We spoke with Professor Mark Bradley of the University of Chicago to find an answer.
Tag Archives: culture
Medical Ethics and Human Rights: Respect for Culture
Bebe Loff – Director of the Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University – considers the need to respect culture and autonomy in the provision of health care
Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia – Mid-Week Review
No religious group in Australia has been subject to the level of vilification that Muslims have. Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia offers a series of personal accounts that debunk the stereotypes, writes Sonia Nair.
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?
Slacktivism – Just One Click To Save The World?
Hsin-Yi Lo explains why online activism cannot replace wider participation, engagement with the public and sacrifice to bring about social and political change.
Artistic Dreaming – Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse
By Jacqui Fetchet. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. “For me the idea of a blank canvas is one of the most empowering things – the thought that you can do anything, go anywhere, say whatever you want. It is freedom of speech. For my people it […]
Preserves Project
By Berni M Janssen. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights The Preserves Project is a multi-arts project celebrating the ways people from different cultural backgrounds preserve, share and pass on what they value. The trees are heavy with fruit, not every year, but when the season has […]