Migrant Rights? Not our problem …
Despite being urged to do so, Australia will not ratify the Migrant Workers Convention: one of the major human rights treaties of the world. The Australian …
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Australia
As, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, today acknowledged there are a lot of human rights positives for Australia, but there were two issues …
Una visión de un mundo nuevo: Oración de Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt fue el primer Presidente de las Comisión de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas. Su trabajo, con sus colegas, condujo a la adopción …
Australia Ratify Now: Migrant Workers Convention
One by one the world has adopted the major human rights treaties. Early on the general ones: the ones that said everyone has human rights. Then the treaties …
Latest Deaths in Detention: Mohammed Asif Atay and Meqdad Hussein
Mohammed Asif Atay and Meqdad Hussein are the latest asylum seekers to die in Australian migration detention centres. Both were young men. Mohammed was aged 19. Meqdad was …
Libya’s Migrant Slaves
Among the tragedies befalling the people of Libya, is the tragedy befalling its migrant workers. On 9 March the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported that 30,000 …
Bartolomé de las Casas: Un trabajador de principios de los derechos humanos
Bartolomé de las Casas es uno de los notables en la historia que surgió en el comienzo mismo del movimiento moderno de derechos humanos. Un …
Bartolome de las Casas: An early human rights worker
Bartolome de las Casas is one of those remarkable people in history who arose at the very beginning of the modern human rights movement. A …
No One is Illegal
“You who are so-called illegal aliens must know that no human being is ‘illegal’. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful …