Missionary, the White Saviour and Angelina Jolie – goodbye to figures of the past. Ann Deslandes writes about the future of human rights work that will be critical, generative and that won’t take itself too seriously.
After a week of tragedy and heartbreak, Senthorun Raj wonders how our emotions shape how we understand and respond to injustice.
Dario Mujkic highlights the importance of employees’ rights to freely discuss workplace grievances outside of their job, and how employers’ attempts to silence such voices can be countered.
ASIO’s new question and detention warrants are just one in a myriad of bills, acts and amendments that are summarised and scrutinised in a new book, writes Athena Rogers.
Australia has recently begun to address the long-overlooked problem of domestic violence. But the specific needs of domestic violence’s culturally and linguistically diverse victims is going largely unnoticed.
How is the right to be a parent affected by sexuality? Stephen Page discusses the legal challenges faced by LBGT intended parents.
Columnist Suzana Jacmenovic wonders if collective and familial grief – at the looming executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, at the senseless deaths of Reza Berati and Hamid Kehazaei – might teach us something about human rights.
Asylum-seeker children born in Australia are still deemed “unauthorised maritime arrivals”. Sayomi Ariyawansa explains this peculiar situation in Australian law.
The balance between the power of the State and the rights of individuals has suffered a blow with the passage of the Data Retention Bill, writes Law Institute of Victoria President Katie Miller.
Access to safe and legal abortions is difficult in many parts of the world. Jenny Ejlak explains the new phenomenon of “personhood” laws, for which Australia is a potential battleground.
Elaine Pearson, the Australia Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks to Right Now about the death penalty in the Asia-Pacific, and whether Australia’s strategy of quiet diplomacy is truly effective.
If living longer is about staying young, are we denying ourselves the right to be old?
