The May 2007 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin includes:
- ‘Australian Government must Get Serious About UN Human Rights Reporting’ – an opinion piece by Annie Pettitt of the National Association of Community Legal Centres
- News regarding Australia’s signature of the UN Disability Convention and Federal Labor’s commitment to an inquiry into the need for a federal Charter of Rights
- A summary and analysis of a report on the ‘Meaning of Public Authority under the Human Rights Act’ from the UK
- A casenote on a recent decision of the UK Court of Appeal regarding the presumption of innocence and the interpretative principle under the UK Human Rights Act
- Casenotes on recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the rights of prisoners, and privacy issues arising from the monitoring of employees’ email and telephone usage
- An update on the Centre’s policy work relating to the Australia-Indonesia Security Agreement
- Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation, including in relation to the deportation of Stefan Nystrom and the rights of women in Victorian prisons
- Information about forthcoming seminars and events, including with Prof Philip Alston (UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Executions) on 14 May
- Information about a new database on economic, social and cultural rights jurisprudence
- A new section, entitled ‘Human Rights Law Jobs’ featuring jobs with PILCH (Vic) and the Refugee Advice + Casework Service
- ‘If I Were Attorney-General’ by Senator Joe Ludwig, Federal Shadow Attorney-General
