The March 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes:
- ‘Activism is not a Dirty Word’ – an opinion piece about the importance of law reform and legal activism by Hugh de Kretser, Executive Director of the Federation of Community Legal Centres
- Information about the new DLA Phillips Fox Human Rights Lawyer
- A summary of a recent report by a UN Special Rapporteur on human rights compliance in the context of counter-terrorism in Australia
- The announcement of the NAB Human Rights Law Scholarship recipient
- A casenote on R v Williams, the first case in the Victorian Supreme Court to substantively consider the Victorian Charter of Human Rights
- A summary of an amicus curiae intervention in a death penalty case by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- A summary of the Centre’s submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties in relation to the proposed Australia-Indonesia Security Treaty
- Information about an NGO response to Australia’s draft reports to the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
- An overview of the Centre’s submission to the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council about post-sentence supervision and detention
- An update on the Centre’s work regarding the conditions of detention of the ‘Melbourne 13′, including an investigation by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Information about forthcoming seminars and events
- Information about forthcoming workshops on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by John Tobin, Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School and Chair of the Centre’s Advisory Committee
