Established in 1991, the Australian Journal of Human Rights is the first journal of its kind in Australia to be devoted to the publication of articles, commentary and book reviews about human rights development in Australia, the Asia Pacific region and internationally. The “A’ ranked Journal, is published twice a year and aims to monitor and provide a forum for scholarship and debate about contemporary human rights developments in Australia and globally.
The Journal adopts a broad-based multidisciplinary approach to human rights issues, focusing not only on the legal aspects of human rights but also the philosophical, historical, economic and political dimensions.

Journal articles are subject to a peer review process.

Patrons

The Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC – Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists
Professor Philip Alston - Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Director, NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Father Frank Brennan SJ AO - founding director of Uniya, the Australian Jesuit Social Justice Centre, Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University and Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice, University of Notre Dame Australia

Managing Editors
Christine Forster
Alan Morris

Editorial Board
Andrew Byrnes
Andrea Durbach
Steven Freeland
Fleur Johns
Peter Kriesler
Eileen Pittaway

Student Editor
Esther Song

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Current Edition

Volume 15 Issue 1 2010

• Freeland, Steven --- "No longer acceptable: the exclusion of the death penalty under international criminal law" [2010] AUJlHRights 1; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 1
• Weber, Leanne --- "Knowing-and-yet-not-knowing about European border deaths" [2010] AUJlHRights 2; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 35
• Khoo, Olivia --- "Regional approaches to trafficking in women in South-East Asia: the role of national human rights institutions and the new ASEAN human rights body" [2010] AUJlHRights 3; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 59
• Parkinson, Patrick --- "Christian concerns about an Australian Charter of Rights" [2010] AUJlHRights 4; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 83
• Gibson, Frances --- "Article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - a right to legal aid?" [2010] AUJlHRights 5; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 123
• Durbach, Andrea --- "The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies, by Danielle Celermajer" [2010] AUJlHRights 6; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 143
• Allen, Dominique --- "Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance, edited by Penelope E Andrews and Susan Bazilli" [2010] AUJlHRights 7; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 151
• Cunneen, Chris --- "Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture, by Sarah Maddison" [2010] AUJlHRights 8; (2010) 15(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 155

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