Here are some of the top human rights new stories from the past week -
Jesuit priest Father Frank Brennan has called on the nation’s churches to back a Charter of rights:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/churches-urged-to-back-charter-of-rights-20100208-nn5g.html
South Australian Government vows to ban all bikie gangs after a Hells Angel associate blew himself up with a bomb apparently intended for a rival club member:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sa-vows-to-ban-bikies-after-car-bomb/story-e6frg6nf-1225829776556
The Queensland Government says the death penalty must be ruled out before information is given to US authorities investigating the scuba-diving death of an American woman in north Queensland in 2003:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/09/2814458.htm
The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee has accused the Department of Corrective Services of introducing an alarming new system for transporting prisoners in Western Australia’s Mid West and Pilbara:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/10/2815542.htm
Victoria’s Health Promotion Foundation is hoping a new trial will help reduce racism in Shepparton:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/11/2816782.htm?site=news
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says more Indigenous people are in work and completing high school, but progress to raise living standards is still too slow:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/11/2816691.htm?site=news
With the Rudd Government’s response to the recommendations of the National Human Rights Consultation reportedly imminent, the rhetoric of the anti-human rights brigade has reached fever pitch
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2816299.htm
Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” content rules:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-baulks-at-conroys-call-to-censor-youtube-20100211-ntm0.html
