Doctors beyond our borders – Is Australia turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in Burma?
Monique Hurley reflects on Australia’s silence following the Burmese Government’s expulsion of Doctors without Borders from Burma’s Rakhine state
Law and Policy – Page 30
Fighting for justice and dignity: Interview with Behrouz Boochani
Right Now speaks to writer Behrouz Boochani about his call for a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention.
The 757 million people also affected by Australia’s 2014-15 Budget
For whom else does the bell toll? Madolyn Smith asks how the Abbott/Hockey Budget will affect the 757 million people living in extreme poverty in the Asia Pacific.
Police Power and Abuse: A gap in Victoria’s legal system
Meghana Sharma takes a look at a gap in Victoria’s legal system – compensation for victims of police abuses of power
Is Economic Equality a Human Right?
In a time when Australia commits through its budget to exacerbate inequality, Alistair Robertson asks whether the language of human rights can express the demand for economic equality.
Discrimination on all fronts evident in May media coverage
Between a harsh budget, ongoing discussion of Racial Discrimination Act amendments, and misogynistic killings in the US, divisiveness stood out in the media during May, writes Pia White.
Seeing Refugees – Remembering Tiananmen Twenty-Five Years On
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.
Editorial – Timor-Leste
Check out the articles from Right Now’s recent Issue on Timor-Leste, one of Australia’s closest neighbours
Manus Island
Mel Jepson offers a poem on Australia’s fixation with “consumers and acceptable guests”
Intervening for the Protection of Human Rights: is a military strategy necessary?
Erin McGinty offers an explainer on the theory and recent practice of military interventions in the name of human rights protection
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?
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