What can Australia’s response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre tell us about where we are at today? Tim Robertson, based in Beijing, provides an illuminating historical comparison of refugees then and now.
What happens at the human level when the machinery of government makes a distant, impersonal decision?
Lizz Murphy offers two poems on child labour – from harvesting cocoa to mining gold
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
Joo-Cheong Tham warns against the expectation of “magic bullets” in tackling complex rights issues, in an article originally published in Right Now Magazine.
André Dao on the language of rights, its potential limitations and its true aim.
This poem by Hayley Elliott-Ryan was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
This story by Laura McPhee-Browne was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
This poem by Margaret Ruckert was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
This moving poem by Tiggy Johnson was shortlisted in the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.