Right Now x Zenith Collective – Part VI: Premature by Rashaad Ernesto Green
The conversation around human rights comes in all forms, in this six-part series we explore that conversation through the lens of film.
Children & youth – Page 3
Who has the right to associate with their community?
It might be said that the law recognises that being able to spend time with those who you call your own is important to one feeling human. But what does this protection mean if police are issued broad powers to determine who is a suitable person for you to associate with?
The boy in the striped prison uniform: a review of Capharnaüm
In one of the opening scenes of Capharnaüm (2018), a boy in a striped prison uniform enters a crowded courtroom. Zain (Zain al-Rafeea) is already a celebrity of sorts, a child who brings a lawsuit against his own parents with the encouragement of a current affairs TV show. He has no birth certificate and no […]
Planned destitution of people seeking asylum: An “act of grace”?
Since 1991, people seeking asylum have been ineligible for any form of social security, instead they have made do with the little assistance they get under a constantly changing policy-based approach. In a new round of cuts within this policy, vast numbers of people seeking asylum will be at risk of avoidable destitution and homelessness.
Nong Shain Maw: Stone Breakers of the East Khasi Highlands
In the remote Indian state of Meghalaya, the Khasi people work in life-threatening conditions to survive, but their will for independence remains strong.
The Asylum Poems
With unflinching focus, these poems by Lisa Jacobson depict the plight of those seeking asylum in Australia.
Exploring human trafficking in fiction
Zana Fraillon’s latest novel, The Ones That Disappeared, haunts the reader with a tale of three children searching for a happy future free from slavery
“Think of the children!” – A dangerous rhetorical strategy
In August 2017, mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest was riled by the Australian Greens’ opposition to the cashless debit card system that’s been proposed for remote Indigenous communities. Forrest was quoted as saying that the party’s stance on this issue made them the “party for paedophiles”. Rewind twelve months. Throughout 2016, the Safe Schools Coalition […]
She Keeps Asking
Writer Kelly Walker considers the impact of the same sex marriage plebiscite on the daily life of families.
Not-so-model minority
Racism, bullying and dangerous fetishisation. Vanessa Head shares a personal account of growing up Asian in Australia.
The “tough on crime” approach failed NT youth
Treating children badly through “tough on crime” measures will never make anyone safer.
Prevention, not punishment is key to reducing Indigenous youth detention
We chat to human rights lawyer Shahleena Musk about the best ways to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous youth in detention.