Enforcing Human Rights In Australia

Author : Beth Gaze,Rosemary Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civil procedure
ISBN : 1921113049

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Enforcing Human Rights in Australia by Beth Gaze,Rosemary Hunter Pdf

Published in association with the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW This major study breaks new ground in exploring the effectiveness and accessibility of procedures for protecting the rights of individuals to equality and freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race, sex and disability.The enforcement of Australian federal anti-discrimination laws has encountered constitutional limitations. Because federal tribunals are unable to make binding decisions, in 2000 enforcement of federal discrimination matters was moved from a tribunal (the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) to the federal courts.The study examines how the move from a specialist tribunal to the federal courts affected enforcement of federal anti-discrimination law. Drawing on statistical data, analysis of reported cases and interviews with parties and their advisors under both the 'old' and 'new' systems, it investigates the impact of the change in terms of:specialist versus generalist decision-making relatively informal versus formal procedures a regime in which each party bears their own costs versus one in which the loser pays the winner's costs The study traces the impact of these changes on the decisions made by complainants about whether (and where) to bring a complaint, whether to settle their cases or proceed to litigation, and on decisions made by respondents about whether to defend or settle a case. The enforcement process in federal discrimination matters was found to erect significant barriers to individuals seeking to pursue their claims in this area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:516168111

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National Human Rights Consultation Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 186287414X

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Retreat from Injustice by Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas Pdf

This new edition of Retreat from Injustice has the strengths and style of its predecessor: the account of human rights in Australia is firmly grounded in historical and international contexts; the availability and limitations of rights and freedoms are clearly detailed and illustrated with cases; and a particular spotlight is placed on key current human rights issues including terrorism, indigenous issues and asylum seekers.

Author : Peter Hamilton Bailey
Publisher : MICHIE
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0409300578

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Human Rights by Peter Hamilton Bailey Pdf

This book discusses a range of real life issues, including the rights of families, the rights of women, the emerging rights of children, the rights of migrants and the rights of Aborigines. It outlines and provides content for the controversies that developed over the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Bill of Rights. It also reviews the legal concepts associated with rights, gives an account of Australian case law, and provides a guide to Australian legislation and the rights provisions in the Australian Constitution. The book covers the whole field of human rights - civil, political, economic, social and cultural. It approaches the task from an international angle, but with the focus on the situation in Australia.

Author : Jon Piccini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472777

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Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia by Jon Piccini Pdf

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

Author : Saskia Hufnagel,Clive Harfield,Simon Bronitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136697272

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Cross-Border Law Enforcement by Saskia Hufnagel,Clive Harfield,Simon Bronitt Pdf

This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each other decreases with every incremental increase in globalisation. The borders under examination include both macro-level cooperation between nation-states, as well as micro-level cooperation between different Executive agencies within a nation-state. In terms of disciplinary borders the contributions demonstrate the breadth of academic insight that can be brought to bear on this topic. The volume contributes to the wider context for evidence-based policy-making and knowledge-based policing by bringing together leading academics, public policy-makers, legal practitioners and law enforcement officials from Europe, Australia and the Asian-Pacific region, to shed new light on the pressing problems impeding cross-border policing and law enforcement globally and regionally. Problems common to all jurisdictions are discussed and innovative ‘best practice’ solutions and models are considered. The book is structured in four parts: Police cooperation in the EU; in Australia; in the Asia-Pacific Region; and finally it considers issues of jurisdiction and due process/human rights issues, with a focus on regional cooperation strategies for countering human trafficking, organised crime and terrorism. The book will be of interest to both academic and practitioner communities in policing, criminology, international relations, and comparative Asia-Pacific and EU legal studies.

Author : Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0642210950

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Australia's National Framework for Human Rights by Australia Pdf

Author : Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,Jens Vedsted-Hansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315408255

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Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,Jens Vedsted-Hansen Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: human rights in an age of international cooperation -- Part I General issues pertaining to human rights and transnational law enforcement -- 1 Shared responsibility for human rights violations: a relational account -- 2 Extraterritoriality and human rights: prospects and challenges -- Part II Law enforcement and security operations -- 3 Transnational operations carried out from a State's own territory: armed drones and the extraterritorial effect of international human rights conventions -- 4 NSA surveillance and its meaning for international human rights law -- 5 Jurisdiction at sea: migrant interdiction and the transnational security state -- 6 Counter-piracy: navigating the cloudy waters of international law, domestic law and human rights -- 7 Rescuing migrants at sea and the law of international responsibility -- Part III Migration control and access to asylum -- 8 Relinking power and responsibility in extraterritorial immigration control: the case of immigration liaison officers -- 9 State responsibility and migration control: Australia's international deterrence model -- 10 Multi-stakeholder operations of border control coordinated at the EU level and the allocation of international responsibilities -- 11 A 'blind spot' in the framework of international responsibility? Third-party responsibility for human rights violations: the case of Frontex -- 12 The legality of Frontex Operation Hera-type migration control practices in light of the Hirsi judgement -- 13 The Dark Side of Globalization: do EU border controls contribute to death in the Mediterranean? -- 14 'Outsourcing' protection and the transnational relevance of protection elsewhere: the case of UNHCR -- Index

Author : Geoffrey Robertson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785906701

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Bad People by Geoffrey Robertson Pdf

From the Nuremberg trials to the arrest of General Pinochet to the prosecution of barbarians of the Balkans, we have crafted a global human rights law to punish crimes against humanity. And yet today it is rarely applied: the International Criminal Court has faltered, populist governments refuse to cooperate, the UN Security Council is pole‐axed and liberal democracy is on the defensive. When faced with the torture of Sergei Magnitsky, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the repression of the Uighurs, what recourse do we have? Distinguished human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson argues that our most powerful weapon is Magnitsky laws, by which not only perpetrators but their accomplices – lickspittle judges, doctors who assist in torture, corporations that profit from slave labour – are named, shamed and blamed. Though the UK and the EU have passed nascent Magnitsky laws, they are not deploying them effectively. It is only by developing a full‐blooded system of coordinated sanctions – banning human rights violators from entering democratic countries to funnel their ill-gotten gains through Western banks and take advantage of our schools and hospitals – that we can fight back against cruelty and corruption. Bad People sets out a Plan B for human rights, offering a new blueprint for global justice in a post‐pandemic world.

Author : Augusto Zimmermann,Joshua Forrester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922449377

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Fundamental Rights in the Age of COVID-19 by Augusto Zimmermann,Joshua Forrester Pdf

CONTENTS 1. Introduction - Fundamental Rights in the Age of Covid-19 -- Augusto Zimmermann & Joshua Forrester 2. Reflecting upon the Costs of Lockdown -- Rex Ahdar 3. Politicians, the Press and "Skin in the Game" -- James Allan 4. An Analysis of Victoria's Public Health Emergency Laws -- Morgan Begg 5. Only the Australian People Can Clean up the Mess: A Call for People's Constitutional Review -- David Flint AM 6. Covid-19, Border Restrictions and Section 92 of the Australian Constitution -- Anthony Gray 7. Blurred Lines Between Freedom of Religion and Protection of Public Health in Covid-19 Era - Italy and Poland in Comparative Perspective -- Weronika Kudla & Grzegorz Jan Blicharz 8. The Dictatorship of the Health Bureaucracy: Governments Must Stop Telling Us What Is for Our Own Good -- Rocco Loiacono 9. The Role of the State in the Protection of Public Health: The Covid-19 Pandemic -- Gabriël A. Moens AM 10. Corona, Culture, Caesar and Christ -- Bill Muehlenberg 11. The Age of Covid-19: Protecting Rights Matter -- Monika Nagel 12. Molinism, Covid-19 and Human Responsibility -- Johnny M. Sakr 13. Interposition: Magistrates as Shields against Tyranny -- Steven Alan Samson 14. Destroying Liberty: Government by Decree -- William Wagner 15. The Virus of Governmental Oppression: How the Australian Ruling Elites are Jeopardising both Democracy and our Health -- Augusto Zimmermann

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644210062

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World Report 2020 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Author : Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9783319948003

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Human Rights in Child Protection by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen Pdf

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices. The book is split into five parts to focus on the most important aspects of child protection. The first part explains the origins, aim, and scope of the book; the second part explores aspects of professionalism and organization through law and policy; and the third part discusses several key issues in child protection and professional practice in depth. The fourth part discusses selected areas of importance to child protection practices (low-impact in-house measures, public care in residential care and foster care respectively) and the fifth part provides an analytical summary of the book. Overall, it contributes to the present need for a more comprehensive academic debate regarding the rights of the child, and the supranational perspective this brings to child protection policy and practice across and within nation-states. .

Author : Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521885102

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Mobilizing for Human Rights by Beth A. Simmons Pdf

Beth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.

Author : Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1503605108

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Remote Freedoms by Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe Pdf

Introduction : indigenous rights as human rights in central Australia -- The act of translation : emancipatory potential and apocryphal revelations -- Engendering social and cultural rights -- "Stop whinging and get on with it" : the shifting contours of gender equality (and equity) -- "Women go to the clinic and men go to jail" : the gendered indigenised subject of legal rights -- Therapy culture and the intentional subject -- Civil and political rights : is there space for an Aboriginal politics? -- International human rights forums and (east coast) indigenous activism

Author : Sarah Joseph,Melissa Castan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191650222

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The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Sarah Joseph,Melissa Castan Pdf

Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Covenant is of universal relevance. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1966 and in force from 1976, it commits the signatories and parties to respect the civil and political freedoms and rights of individuals. Monitored by the UN Human Rights Committee, the Covenant ratified by the majority of UN member states. The book meticulously extracts and analyzes the jurisprudence over nearly forty years of the UN Human Rights Committee, on each of the various ICCPR rights, including the right to life, the right to freedom from torture, the right of freedom of religion, the right of freedom of expression, and the right to privacy, as well as admissibility criteria under the First Optional Protocol. Key miscellaneous issues, such as reservations, derogations, and denunciations, are also thoroughly assessed. Comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced, this book offers elegant and straight-forward access to the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and other UN human rights treaty bodies. Presented in a clear and illuminating manner, it will be of use to the judiciary, human rights practitioners, human rights activists, government institutions, academics, and students alike.