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
Law and Policy – Page 31
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 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
Editorial – Human Rights Critiques
Check out Right’s Now’s April 2014 issue on critiques of human rights
The Sons of SAM (Securities Against Misrule)
Are rights being used to confuse political discussions, to camouflage the real operations of exceptional politics? In this short exegesis of two of rights criticism’s founding fathers, Justin Clemens asks whether rights have become an “anti-political principle”.
Progressive Unease With a Bill of 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.
The Future of Human Rights
André Dao on the language of rights, its potential limitations and its true aim.
After
This moving story by Christy Collins was shortlisted for Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
The Human Face of Refugee Policy
Refugees are the most vulnerable class of people in the world. Besmellah Rezaee, a former refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, argues for a more compassionate asylum seeker policy.
Protecting the young in a new nation: Youth in Timor Leste
Despite its large youth population, Timor Leste’s legal protection mechanisms for children need development.
HAVING IT BOTH WAYS: AUSTRALIA’S CONFLICTED POSITION IN THE TIMOR SEA
Sarita Ryan explains the Timorese struggle for self-determination, and Australia’s struggle to balance its economic self-interests and cooperative international relationships.