Volume 20: Issue 3: December 2010

Sample Story : Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Fear, flight and the politics of asylum by Jessie Taylor

This edition of the Human Rights Defender looks at the challenges surrounding the recognition of refugee rights within the Asia pacific region – in particular, focusing on Australia, Papua New Guinea and areas of South East Asia. Within all these regions, there exists a clear need for increased accountability, transparency and compassionate regional cooperation between governments.

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Volume 19: Issue 21: July 2010

Sample Story : The human right to sanitation - essential for survival, health and a life of dignity by Catarina de Albuquerque

This edition of the Human Rights Defender focuses on sanitation. Sanitation is in many ways a taboo subject, in part, because it is related to very intimate
and private bodily functions. Inadequate sanitation is also a subject that is expensive
for governments to address, particularly if ‘big pipe’ infrastructure solutions are
sought, rather than smaller, decentralised solutions. Accordingly, sanitation is what might be described as a ‘sleeper’ issue: it is very important but few governments or organisations make it a top priority for attention.

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Volume 19: Issue 1: March 2010

Sample Story : Interpreting the Capability Approach: Thin and Thick Views? by Mozaffar Qizillbash.

This edition of the Human Rights Defender focuses on human rights and the capabilities approach. This edition of the Human Rights Defender looks at the relationship between human capabilities, development and human rights. The capability approach focuses on what human beings can actually do and want to be. It is centred on human
well-being and the circumstances that people live in – rather than merely on what rights people should have.

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Volume 18: Issue 3: December 2009

Sample Story : Perspectives on social rights justiciability in Argentin, Carolina Fairstein, Paola Rey Garcia and Gabriela Kletsel

This edition of the Human Rights Defender focuses on the practice of implementing economic, social and cultural rights. The authors of the articles are almost all practitioners in Australia in legal aid or community legal centres or work in human rights internationally.
What is striking about each of the articles, is the innovative and creative ways in which law is being used to make economic and social rights real and justiciable for disadvantaged communities.

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Volume 18: Issue 2: June 2009

Sample Story : Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights , Emma Partridge

The theme of this edition of the Human Rights Defender is climate change and human rights. This edition discusses these issues both in the context of climate change as a regional issue and its impact on particular human rights. Articles adopting a regional focus consider climate change impacts in the United States, Australia, Nepal, the Arctic and the Pacific.  The potential of climate change to adversely impact a number of human rights is generally acknowledged and this issue focuses on the right to life, food, water, health and housing and the rights of indigenous peoples. Developments in climate change litigation are also canvassed.  The last article in this edition is a stand alone piece on child protection and deportation in the context of Australian immigration.

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Volume 18: Issue 1: March 2009

Sample Story : The threat of a racist hate-fest: Is boycott the answer to combating racism? , Andrea Durbach

SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITION FEATURING EIGHT SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS DURING AND AFTER APARTHEID

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Volume 17: Issue 3: December 2008

Sample Story : Law & Terror: Enforced Disappearances, Salahuddin Ahmed

Focus: Criminal justice and human rights in Australia, Asia and the Pacific. With contributions by Salahuddin Ahmed, Masashi Akita, Jill Hunter, Tony Krone, Craig W.J. Minogue and others.

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Volume 17: Issue 2: August 2008

Sample Story : Locked Up, Locked Out, John Falzon

Focus: The role of Non-Government Organisations as Human Rights Defenders. With contributions by John Falzon, Justine Nolan, Randa Siniora and others.

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Volume 17: Issue 2 : August 2008

Volume 17: Issue 1: March 2008

Cover Story: Implementing the Human Right to Water in Australia Janice Grey

Focus: The Human Right to water in Australia and internationally. With contributions by Janice Grey, Justine nolan, Cristy Clarke and others.

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Volume 16: Issue 3: Decmber 2007

Cover Story: Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under Bills of Rights: The South African Experience Sandra Liebenberg

Focus: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Human Right to Development. With contributions by Sandra Liebenberg, Susan Mathews, Jessica Mantell, Claire Mahon and others..

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Volume 16: Issue 3 : December 2007

Volume 16: Issue 2: August 2007

Cover Story: Should Australian Muslim Communities really be concerned about Anti Terrorism Laws? Andrew Lynch

Focus: The relationship between religion and human rights in Australia and internationally. With contributions by Andrew Lynch, Peter Garrett, Danielle Celemajor, Caroline Evans and Beth Gaze.

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Volume 16: Issue 2: August 2007

Volume 16: Issue 1: March 2007

Cover Story: In retrospect: a review of Australia's role as a global human rights citizen by Elizabeth Evatt.

Focus: A retrospective edition celebrating 21 years of the Australian Human Rights Centre. With contributions by Andrea Durbach, Garth Nettheim, Andrew Byrnes and Elizabeth Evatt and retrospective articles by Megan Davies, Danielle Celermajer, Julian Burnside and Frank Stilwell.

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Volume 16: Issue 1: March 2007