Here is a selection of this week’s top human rights news stories -
- Rudd government’s leadership credentials on human rights have begun to fall apart: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/how-labor-came-a-cropper-on-human-rights/story-e6frg97x-1225881085838
- Australia named by the US State Department as a destination for human trafficking for sexual servitude and forced labour: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/sex-trade-report-shames-australia/story-e6frf7jo-1225881175204
- Immigration Minister Chris Evans concerned about reports of tasers being inappropriately used on asylum seekers in an Australian-funded detention centre in Indonesia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/15/2927642.htm
- Federal government inundated with offers to house asylum seekers from companies, charities and ordinary Australians: http://www.theage.com.au/national/flood-of-offers-to-house-boat-people-20100616-ygft.html
- Federal government intervention in Northern Territory indigenous communities a backward step, says Gurindji member: http://www.theage.com.au/national/for-some-workers-the-struggle-will-never-end-20100615-yd9p.html
- Three years on from the Federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, there is scant evidence that compulsory income management is doing any good: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/nt-policy-failing-the-children-20100613-y5us.html
- Concerns by Victoria’s privacy watchdog about the use of CCTV cameras in Melbourne ‘trivial’, says Lord Mayor Robert Doyle: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/cctv-worries-are-trivial-says-lord-mayor-robert-doyle/story-e6frf7kx-1225881067266
- Police shot mentally ill man after attack with kitchen knife: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/police-shot-mentally-ill-man-after-attack-with-kitchen-knife/story-e6frf7l6-1225880174156
- Ambulance delay may have breached mother’s right to life: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ambulance-delay-may-have-breached-mothers-right-to-life-20100612-y4rm.html
- High Court resumes deliberations on whether the use of secret evidence under anti-terrorism and other laws is legal under the Constitution: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/when-justice-is-not-seen-to-be-done/story-e6frg6z6-1225880098214
- Australian Senate passes legislation establishing Australia’s first paid parental leave scheme: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/couples-win-parental-leave-from-january-1-after-federal-senate-vote/story-e6frf7l6-1225881171564
- Former High Court judge Michael Kirby wins US award in recognition of his extended career championing the rights of the oppressed in Australia and overseas: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/michael-kirby-wins-us-award-20100617-ygqd.html
