Past Issues

HRLRC Bulletin Vol 2 – June 2006

Volume 2 of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes articles about:

  • The value of the legislative entrenchment of economic, social and cultural rights;
  • Rev Tim Costello’s call for a human rights approach to human development;
  • A recent UN Human Rights Committee ruling in relation to the human rights of an Indigenous man with a mild intellectual disability who was held in a NSW prison aged 16;
  • Prisoners, democracy and the human right to vote;
  • Information about the HRLRC submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006;
  • Information about current HRLRC casework; and
  • Details of forthcoming HRLRC seminars, events and training.