The October 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre Bulletin includes:
- An opinion piece by Federal Human Rights Commissioner, Graeme Innes AM, on same-sex entitlements
- News regarding the Centre’s victory in the High Court for prisoners’ voting rights
- Information about the recently adopted UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- A summary of the UN Human Rights Committee’s recently adopted General Comment on the Right to a Fair Hearing
- An analysis of some recent Statements of Compatibility tabled in Victorian Parliament pursuant to the Charter of Human Rights
- Case notes on recent significant human rights decisions from the European Court of Human Rights regarding the right to a fair hearing, conditions of detention, access to medical services and freedom of peaceful assembly
- A brief summary and extract from a recent Supreme Court of Victoria decision which considered the relevance of the ICCPR to the right to a fair trial and the court’s obligations to self-represented litigants
- Information about the Centre’s policy work relating to the normative content of right to a fair hearing and the prohibition on torture under international human rights law
- Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation
- Information about forthcoming human rights seminars and events
- Information about useful human rights resources, including the most recent additions to the Centre’s website and a review of Free Speech in Fearful Times
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by Alison Aggarwal, Advocacy and Human Rights Officer with the Combined Community Legal Centres Group NSW
