The need for counter-terrorism law reform
By Alexandra HurleyAlexandra Hurley on the need for counter-terrorism law reform
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CHOGM and human rights in Sri Lanka
By Lucy SwinnenIs Sri Lanka a suitable host for CHOGM considering the poor human rights situation in the country? We speak to Amnesty International’s Ming Yu.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mid-Week Review
By Maya BoromBy Maya Borom. Mira Nair’s film adaptation of Pakistani author Moshin Hamid’s bookof the same name provides a delicate introspection into protagonist Changez’s (Riz Ahmed) struggle with his western consumerist driven identity and his eastern cultural, religious and familial background. This struggle is told as a first person narrative to investigative journalist Bobby Lincoln who […]
What do ASIO’s adverse security assessments of refugees actually mean?
By Andrew ZammitThere has been some progress towards achieving due process for Australia’s “legal black hole” refugees.
Zero Dark Thirty – Mid-Week Review
By Maya BoromBy Maya Borom. On 2 May 2011 United States Navy Seals transgressed into Pakistani territory and successfully assassinated Al-Qaeda’s spiritual leader, and the most wanted man in the world, Osama Bin Laden. The operation and its outcome was the realisation of a decade of what can be aptly described as global terrorist hunting that stretched […]
Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights After 9/11 – Mid-Week Review
By Jessica SzwarcbordBy Jessica Szwarcbord. In the beginning of the post-9/11 era it seemed that no one could stop the United States from aggressively retaliating in any way it wished. A freight train blasting through a new landscape, sculpted by the uncertainty and terror of the catastrophic plane-into-building event that has become a ‘where-were-you-when?’ moment in all […]
Interview with Christine Assange
Samaya Chanthaphavong in conversation with Christine AssangeSamaya Chanthaphavong spoke to Christine Assange about government transparency, human rights and the possible extradition of her son, Julian Assange, to the United States of America. Right Now: Julian is seeking political asylum in Ecuador. Can you please explain to our readers why you think the Australian consular or governmental support has abandoned him, and […]
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS, TAMIL ASYLUM SEEKER DEPORTED & DISABILITY INSURANCE: THE HUMAN RIGHTS WRAP UP
By Eva Csik and Bec DevittGovernment fails on child rights The Australian Human Rights Commission has found that Australia’s treatment of suspected people smugglers who said that they were children has breached international human rights law in a report released on Friday. The report An age of uncertainty reveal that between 2008 and 2011 Australian authorities gave little consideration to […]
Give refugees the right to appeal security assessments – just like the rest of us
By Andrew ZammitLast night, Lateline reported on a five-year-old refugee who faced the prospect of being separated from his father forever. His father had failed an ASIO security assessment, which under current policies means he is to be detained indefinitely with no right of appeal. According to the report, 46 proven refugees are being locked up indefinitely […]
Panel – Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden
By Jess O’CallaghanOn Wednesday 20 July, the Monash University Alumni Speaker Series presented a panel entitled “Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden and what it means for global terrorism”. The panel was conducted from 6 pm to 8 pm at BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne. Professor Greg Barton led the discussion, with panellists Associate Professor […]
Interview with Professor Yasmeen
Hanne Melgård Watkins in conversation with Samina YasmeenOn Friday 22 July 2011, Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Conference was held in Melbourne. Samina Yasmeen, Director of Centre for Muslim States and Societes at UWA addressed the topic “Islamophobia and Multicultural Australia”. Following the speech Right Now writer Hanne M Watkins spoke with Professor Yasmeen about Islamophobia, inclusion, women’s […]
Interview with Jeff Sparrow
Right Now in conversation with Jeff SparrowJeff Sparrow is an Australian author and editor of literary journal Overland. Last month he, along with Elizabeth O’Shea, a Melbourne lawyer working on public interest litigation, wrote an open letter to Julia Gillard about their concern for the wellbeing of WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange. Mr Assange was arrested in London on December 7 on […]