Human Rights
- Debacle in Beijing
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(China, Human rights in China, New York Review of Books) ...
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- Chen Guangcheng's journey
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(China, Human rights in China, New Yorker) ...
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- Some Comic Relief From The Dispiriting Tug-Of-War
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012 - 10:44am General Content Item: Right Column Lower "Thank goodness for Clive Palmer, the human whoopee cushion of Australian politics, and the joie de ...
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- Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger
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(Human rights in China, Tibet, Washington Post) ...
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- Afghan women are being jailed for 'moral crimes'
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(Afghanistan, Human Rights, Guardian) ...
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- Autumn of the Patriarch
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forests encroach on the clearings. Human traces are hidden in the green. The land looks virginal from ... the ornamental garden and the fishpond. The reception room on the courtyard’s right wing, near the gate, ... not least because the bus stops right outside her front door. She is less forgiving than her son ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Out of contact
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Out of contact " Incredible as it may seem, and there may be no greater anachronism on earth, there are still 'wild' human beings ... (Indigenous Rights, Peru, South America, New York Review of Books) ...
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- The body counter
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methods and the right kind of data, he can make what we know tell us what we don't know. He has shown human rights groups, truth commissions, and international courts how to collect thousands of testimonies ... (Bosnian War, Human Rights, Humanitarian responses, International Criminal Court, Foreign Policy) ...
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- Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
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argument that the move to grant apes fundamental rights eroded the Biblical hierarchy which gives humans dominion over the earth. “Asking for human rights for monkeys is like asking for bull rights for men.” ... Eating Animals, Egypt, Guardian, Human Rights, Indonesia, Kevin Rudd, Live exports, Quarterly Essay) ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)
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General item (Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian responses, International ...
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- Same-sex Union
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(samesex union, samesex union) (March 2012, The Nation Reviewed, Gay Marriage, Human Rights, LGBT, LGBT rights, Same-sex union) ...
The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2012-04-05 16:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Fishing as slaves on the high seas
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(Human Rights, Overfishing, Bloomberg Business Week) ...
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- Status Quota
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and penalties for non-compliance – was made explicit in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Gender ...
The Monthly - Cordelia Fine - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Children’s Lib
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in Newsweek , praised as the “rightful heir to Simone de Beauvoir” in the New York Times , and said ... themselves, on the feminist revolution, and indeed on most issues, humane progressives. Yet their eyes passed ... recognised the humane necessity for a radical break with past treatment that was once regarded as ‘natural’ – ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- In the Picture
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of a light of democracy and human rights”. “We are going to find common ground,” he says, a golden bust ... David Scott Mathieson, a Burma researcher for Human Rights Watch, is also sceptical that a full ... on the country’s periphery – a festering Petri dish of ethnic conflict, narcotics production and human rights ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
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published in October asked whether tax on high-income earners was too high, about right, or too low. Twenty per cent of respondents said it was too high, 34% about right, and a plurality of 46% said it was too ... is shifting the centre to the right, you consistently have to move to the right to compete. There’s a bit ...
The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Philosophic Emissions
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a particular difficulty for those who, like English philosopher Roger Scruton, are on the political right ... of greenhouse gases as a result of human activity is causing potentially catastrophic global warming, however, then the market is failing to capture the true costs of billions of everyday human transactions, and it seems ...
The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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Rubberhose, a piece of “deniable cryptography” for human rights activists and troublemakers, the purpose ... trade unions or speak negatively of “rampant capitalists” and positively of “human rights activists”. He ... is one of the best-known and most-respected human beings on earth. Assange was the overwhelming winner ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Address to the US President
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have good buddies I know, but I think I am right in saying that buddyship is not the core national ... that the rights of man derive from the generosity of the state, and not, as some idealists have previously ... in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life,” Kennedy ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?
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the Indian Ocean offers the most humane and Christian approach is also the Scott Morrison whose incessant ... with a ministry, had decided to step down rather than face what looked like being a nasty challenge from the right ... history, with the right and left factions waging an internecine war. Morrison was not backed by either side ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Second Rudd Government?
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scheme. It is true that his attempt to create a humanly generous asylum seeker policy came unstuck. ... will seem to them to be the righting of a wrong. If things go on under Gillard as they are, ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- The Search for the Least Bad Asylum Seeker Policy
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Solution in late 2001 – no temporary protection visas and mandatory detention with a somewhat more human ... in Australia between the culture-war camps of Left and Right. Just as in the political stalemate where ... or even ruined. So far as I am aware, no one on the Right has ever conceded that the success of the Howard ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-21 10:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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and president of the Lakemba Sports & Recreation Club, won a Human Rights Medal for his work after Cronulla. ... to establish a new store in North Cronulla, under the Rydges Hotel, right opposite Northies. Hythem Damouny ... Culture, Australian Traditions, Cronulla Riots, Gender, Ghassan Hage, History of Australia, HRAFF, Human ...
The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Best Satire of 2011
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you want to locate yourself right on the boundary of personal embarrassment." – New York ... "How about throwing us a bone and making a movie with recognisably human characters, plotting ...
Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-12-20 09:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- How Gillard Sees the World: Australia’s foreign policy
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‘non-traditional security’ is preferred, probably to avoid any connection to human rights). This is the area where ... of human rights and democracy, but it might require greater recognition that such concepts are not seen ... (Development, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Aid) ...
Blog - Dennis Altman - 2011-11-29 13:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
