The April 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes:
- ‘Human Rights are Common Sense’ – an opinion piece on the likely impacts and implications of the Victorian Charter of Rights
- A summary and analysis of the recently adopted General Comment No 10 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in relation to juvenile justice
- An article by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission about its work regarding women prisoners
- A summary and analysis of the first Statements of Compatibility tabled under the Victorian Charter of Rights
- A casenote on a recent decision of the ACT Supreme Court which considered the operation of the interpretative provision of the ACT Human Rights Act
- A casenote about a Canadian Supreme Court judgment relating to human rights and counter-terrorism measures
- Information about the Centre’s work relating to asylum-seekers and the right to health, which is currently being considered by the UN Human Rights Council
- An update on the Centre’s constitutional challenge in the High Court to the disenfranchisement of prisoners
- Information about forthcoming seminars and events, including with Prof Philip Alston (UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Executions)
- nformation regarding the UN Special Procedures Bulletin
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by Michael Pearce SC, Vice-President of Liberty Victoria
