Crossing Over: does immigration policy discriminate?
Does immigration policy discriminate? The White Australia policy is gone – so we might conclude that it doesn’t. And indeed Australia would be unrecognisable to …
Racism operates directly and indirectly to exclude people from real access to equality. Racism feeds unjust policies which deny people categorised as “other”: their human rights. Racism can feed social exclusion within communities and in turn breed cycles of hostility and violence. Treating “non-citizens” differently to “citizens”, apart from what else it amounts to – amounts to discrimination on the basis of race.
Does immigration policy discriminate? The White Australia policy is gone – so we might conclude that it doesn’t. And indeed Australia would be unrecognisable to …
Humans are complex beings. The movie “Belle” (director Amma Assante) explores human complexity, particularly as it manifests in everyday human relationships. The movie is set …
It is hardest to write of those things about which we feel most deeply. Today I wish to write about someone whose words and life …
It is one of the saddest realities of our modern world that prejudice and hate often rear their ugly heads through acts of gross violence. …
What is happening in America? America is in turmoil on the issue of immigration. Some describe it as the new ‘civil rights’ issue. Laws are being …
At the core of human rights is the axiomatic truth that human beings have inherent rights: that all human beings are equal and possessed of …
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 …
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 …
It appears from all reporting that what makes the tragedy that occurred on the morning of Wednesday 15 December, 2010 on the shoreline of Christmas …