The machinery of government: on being a person in the turning cogs of aid
What happens at the human level when the machinery of government makes a distant, impersonal decision?
Tag Archives: human rights – Page 21
Ongoing Commitments
Alexandra Scale reminds us that the “shipping of souls” to offshore detention centres creates physical and emotional scars for thousands of asylum seekers.
“Chocolate Fix” and “Two Dollars a Day”
Lizz Murphy offers two poems on child labour – from harvesting cocoa to mining gold
Editorial – Human Rights Critiques
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
No Asians. Your Desire
This striking poem by Jake Dennis won the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
The Future of Human Rights
André Dao on the language of rights, its potential limitations and its true aim.
Borderlands
This poem by Hayley Elliott-Ryan was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
After
This moving story by Christy Collins was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Here are the dogs
This story by Laura McPhee-Browne was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Another World
This poem by Margaret Ruckert was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.