Amy Rogers argues that when an Australian company is operating in a developing country with a history of corruption, environmental and human rights violations, our government must take responsibility.
Jess O’Callaghan highlights the theme of not overlooking the past in submissions to an inquiry into the relationship between Timor-Leste and Australia initiated by Foreign Minister Bob Carr.
In the wake of Australia assuming the UN Security Council Presidency in September, Raymond Lau asks where to now for Australia and the international community on Darfur.
The Railway Rehabilitation Project in Cambodia seeks to improve economic development by reconnecting the country. AusAID provides 15 per cent of the funding. So far so good, but Morgan Macdonald asks, who’s responsible when the project leads to the violation of people’s land rights?
While the extraordinary responsibility we bear is a difficult burden, it is also a precious gift. Few people in all of human history have had as great an opportunity as we now have to avert harm and do good for humanity. Associate Professor Tilman Ruff examines human rights in the nuclear era.
By Roxanne Moore and Alexandra Scott. We cheered when Rudd abolished Temporary Protection Visas. We celebrated when Rudd ended the Pacific Solution. His return to power restored our hope… then suddenly – BAM – hello Darkness, my old friend. Now what? This shrewd policy has left most of us in despair, grasping at arguments which […]
Papua New Guinea is ranked 134 out of 147 in the UNDP’s Gender Development Index. Given that Australia accepts refugees from PNG on the basis of gender-based violence, Angelica Neville argues that the Australian Government will be sending female asylum seekers into harm’s way.
Melissa Reid teases out the complexities of Australian aid work in Viet Nam, with the two countries subscribing to opposing political frameworks that penetrate to the core of their respective national identities.
An estimated two to three million girls are subjected to the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) each year. Leona Hameed looks at the practice in Australia and what can be done to eradicate it and to assist victims.
Asher Hirsch interviews three young men from refugee backgrounds. Read their inspirational stories.
No Fire Zone is a haunting but important film that explicitly documents violent acts of war, committed in a supposed protection zone in Sri Lanka, writes Maya Borom.
Coming into force this July, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act continues to occupy a great deal of the media’s attention. With an emotive introduction to Parliament by Prime Minister Gillard and rare bi-partisan support, the question circling many Australian households is: what is the NDIS? Isabella Royce answers this question and others in her discussion of disability support schemes in Australia and the UK.