Human Rights First has released a seminal study of the use of ‘coerced evidence’ by the US Administration to prosecute terrorists. This 72-page publication, meticulously footnoted, gives chapter and verse on where and how America has gone wrong in its bl…
A cops ‘n media TV show/circus in the USA is being sued for $110m because a humiliated victim suicided ‘live’ on air with a gun to the head. The New York Times’ Editorial Observer asks: where’s the line to stop the media becoming ‘brown shirts with TV ca…
CLA President Dr Kristine Klugman has welcomed the new ability to take action in court in the ACT to ensure someone’s human rights are protected. “This is a help to the little people in society, who benefit most from human rights laws,” she said.
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CLA’s media spokesperson Max Jeganathan commented recently on the wholesale expansion of police access to CCTV footage in NSW.Phote: NSW Police imageRead the media article here.
The fragility of democracy, particularly when war is in the air, was the theme of CLA Director James Staples’ speech to officially launch, in the national capital, the Liberating of Lady Chatterley and Other True Stories: A History of the NSW Council for…
All Australians are not equal. The 500,000-plus citizens of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are discrimated against under the Australian Constitution and by laws of the Australian Parliament, contrary to international human ri…