The August 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes:
- ‘Indigenous Rights 40 Years On’ – an opinion piece by Ben Schokman of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre
- News regarding the Centre’s pro bono output (which has just topped $2.5 million!) and a call for financial support and donations
- A report on the UK Government’s response to court judgments which find human rights breaches
- Information about the Centre’s new and expanded Charter Manual, database and resources
- An analysis of some recent Statements of Compatibility tabled pursuant to the Victorian Charter of Human Rights
- A case note on a decision of the Supreme Court of New Zealand regarding the relationship and interaction between the rights to freedom of expression and privacy
- A case note on a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the principles relevant to pre-trial detention
- An analysis of recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada and the UK Court of Appeal regarding the right to freedom of expression in a commercial context
- A case note from the European Court of Human Rights regarding the obligation to facilitate peaceful assembly and protest
- An update on the Centre’s policy work relating to the Australia-Indonesia Security Agreement and the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s consideration of post-sentence supervision and detention of high risk offenders
- Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation, including in relation to a call for a Country Visit to Australia by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People and the provision of legal aid funding by VLA for the ‘prisoner voting case’
- Information about forthcoming seminars and events, including Centre seminars with the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC and Lord Robert Walker (UK House of Lords)
- Information about useful human rights resources, including the VEOHRC Human Rights Community Grants Program and a review of Litigating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by Teena Balgi, Co-Convenor of the National Human Rights Network of the National Association of Community Legal Centres
