Intervening for the Protection of Human Rights: is a military strategy necessary?
By Erin McGintyErin McGinty offers an explainer on the theory and recent practice of military interventions in the name of human rights protection
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Australia, UN Security Council and the crisis in Darfur
By Raymond LauIn the wake of Australia assuming the UN Security Council Presidency in September, Raymond Lau asks where to now for Australia and the international community on Darfur.
Australia’s Nuclear Disarmament Hypocrisy
By David DonaldsonAustralia is good at talking the talk. Yet when it comes to taking action, Australia’s governments have fallen far short of their heroic rhetoric, writes David Donaldson.
The world adopts an Arms Trade Treaty, but will it work?
By Roselina PressArmed violence kills more than half a million people each year, small arms being responsible for a great proportion of these deaths. As Stephanie Koorey recently noted in Inside Story, while small arms and other conventional weapons do not cause wars, they do contribute to the “outbreak, intensity and duration of conflict”. As a consequence, […]
How can Australia use its seat on the UN Security Council to advance Human Rights?
By Holly KendallBy Holly Kendall. Australia has just spent at least 24 million dollars to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Right Now investigates how Australia can use its seat to advance human rights in Australia. The Security Council was formed in 1945 under the United Nations Charter with the “primary responsibility for the […]