Human Rights
EU shows how to do a dodgy surveyAnne Fleck | 16 May 2013 |tags: EU, homophobia, human rightsThe EU's largest-ever survey of hate crimes and discrimination against LGBT people claims that they labour under a terrible burden. But the figures don’t support the conclusions.
Pro-lifers taking a new directionWilliam West | 15 January 2013 |tags: abortion, human dignity, human rights, prisons, pro-lifePrison reform is human dignity issue that needs to be addressed urgently.
Wrongful conviction: lessons from the Chamberlain caseJoanna Kyriakakis | 21 June 2012 |tags: capital punishment, criminal justice, human rightsThe dingo did take Azaria Chamberlain. The criminal justice system does get it wrong, each error bearing its own human cost.
The shining city on a hill slams its doorsConstance Kong | 07 May 2012 |tags: Chen Guangcheng, China, human rightsThe Obama Administration's treatment of two Chinese dissidents has been shameful.
Preventing atrocitiesMartin Shaw | 01 May 2012 |tags: Barack Obama, genocide, human rightsThe Obama Administration has created an agency to identify and address threats of atrocity around the world. Will it be effective?
Should the US be an idealist or a realist about Egypt?George Friedman | 07 December 2011 |tags: foreign policy, human rights, Islam, StratforWhat if there are democratic elections and the people choose a regime that violates the principles of Western human rights?
A Srebrenica in the making?David Alton | 05 December 2011 |tags: human rights, Iran, IraqThe American withdrawal from Iraq has left some Iranian refugees at risk of being slaughtered.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a victory for human dignityMishka Gora | 30 May 2011 |tags: Bosnia, human rights, justiceBringing maniacs like Mladic to justice signals that the dream of a tolerant Bosnia is not dead.
Fundamental rights - or fundamental confusion?Gudrun Kugler | 07 May 2011 |tags: discrimination, European Union, human rightsVoicing an opinion at a human rights forum can be a scary business.
The puzzle of intolerant toleranceMichael Casey | 28 March 2011 |tags: human rights, toleranceHow can liberal democracies justify prosecuting people who wear crosses or refuse to preside at same-sex marriages and still pride themselves on being tolerant?
Gender bending: let me count the waysBabette Francis | 22 March 2011 |tags: Australia, gender, human rightsFew countries can be taking gender inclusiveness more seriously than Australia.
Your Constitutional right to be crazyTheron Bowers | 24 February 2011 |tags: human rights, insanity, lawThe man who killed six people and seriously wounded a Congresswoman in Tucson was crazy. But not crazy enough to be locked up.
Mass torture in AmericaLance Tapley | 18 February 2011 |tags: human rights, prisons, tortureThere's Guantanamo Bay, and then there are America's supermax prisons, where tens of thousands of citizens are kept in solitary confinement.
First, look in the mirrorJoanna Wagner | 13 December 2010 |tags: abortion, gendercide, human rights, IndiaHow can we point the finger at female gendercide in India when we have the same problem in the US for both genders?
Scoundrels and freedomBrian Lilley | 01 April 2010 |tags: Ann Coulter, free speech, human rightsAnn Coulter, hate speech and do jokes violate human rights?subscribe donate
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