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Trade, treaty and exchange agreements must accord with all international human rights protocols. Agreements should not diminish the rights of Australian citizens, or subject citizens of other countries to lesser rights than those of Australians.
What is AG Roxon hiding over East Timor?
Article posted on Tuesday 01 May 2012If anyone wants to know why WikiLeaks is important, refer them to the case of Attorney-General Nicola Roxon's refusal to release diplomatic cables about East Timor which are now more than 35 years old. Inordinate secrecy usually means a cover-up. What is she hiding? asks Sister Susan Connelly.
Dead to rights: how an Aussie hero
framed the world’s conscience
Article posted on Tuesday 24 April 2012
Heroes and heroines emerge in war and in peace. A forgotten Aussie hero, brave on the front line at ANZAC Cove in April 1915 and resolute in framing the world's human rights 30 years later, has left a personal legacy which even today continues to shape a better world. CLA's CEO Bill Rowlings tells the story.
Setting a human rights agenda for Australia
Article posted on Wednesday 04 April 2012CLA has been calling for years for a green paper/white paper process to analyse and define Australia's foreign policy imperatives and objectives, in particular our focus on boosting human rights in the Asia-Pacific. Here Phil Lynch gives an excellent rundown of what new Foreign Minister, Mr Carr, should be concentrating on.
Extradition to US is doubly doubtful
Article posted on Wednesday 18 January 2012Mark Summerfield, a patent attorney, analyses the current UK alleged piracy/copyright extradition case with major international ramifications. As well, there's links to the NYT coverage of proposed new US laws which are even more draconian, and to an SMH story of the real-life experience of an Australian extradited and jailed in the US for a similar 'offence'.
Signature should open prisons to light of scrutiny
Article posted on Thursday 22 December 2011A simple signature on a treaty, which the Labor Government has promised for more than four years, would bring relief to people penned behind bars these holidays. CLA is a signatory to a letter asking new Attorney-General Nicola Roxon to sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. With a stroke of the pen, a formal inspection regime would open up Australia's dark places to the light of external scrutiny.
The Obama Gang: unwelcome intruders
Article posted on Monday 28 November 2011How come many hundreds of personnel carrying weapons, some who almost certainly have committed crimes under international law, can enter Australia without Customs or security questioning, Humphrey McQueen asked in a speech outside Parliament House during the US President's visit? In truth, there's a wide range of Americans we would welcome to this country, historically or currently, but it doesn't include members of the Obama Gang, he told the audience.
CLA wins: full extradition reports
Article posted on Friday 15 July 2011After four years of lobbying, CLA's proposal for the government to report details about people we extradite to face trial overseas has been adopted by the Attorney-General's Department. The AG's annual report will in future carry reports of extradition requests granted by Australia and other relevant follow-up information.
Read the Minister's letter to CLA »...
Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Dialogues with China and Vietnam
Article posted on Thursday 14 July 2011CLA's submission is available here »...
Cabal meets to decide Oz law
Article posted on Saturday 09 July 2011Once again, this time in Sydney, a self-selected group of Attorneys-General from the West is meeting to decide – without reference to the Australian parliament – the shape of Australia's future laws. It's time MPs stood up to be counted against such emasculation of their roles and responsibilities, CLA says.
PM's plea in line with UN Charter
Article posted on Monday 20 June 2011Editor, West Australian: The Prime Minister is obliged to support a Presidential clemency for Andrew Chan, an Australian citizen, in Indonesia. In doing so, she is supporting the UN Human Rights Charter which advocates all nations abolish capital punishment, which Australia has done.
Pillay calls for Human Rights Act
Article posted on Thursday 26 May 2011The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for politicians to abandon short term political goals and treat asylum seekers and Indigenous disadvantage through a human rights-based approach. After a six-day visit here, she is also calling for a "fully-fledged Human Rights Act" for Australia.
Read article »..
General calls for war debates
Article posted on Thursday 12 May 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Parliament should be more involved in any decision to go to war...and even more involved in a decision to stay at war, says retired General Peter Leahy, the man responsible for our soldiers for most of the Afghanistan war so far. He calls for a clear statement of Australia's national interests and strategy, and debate in parliament and throughout civil society.
'We must fight for freedom'
Article posted on Friday 22 April 2011'The cause for which we stand and when we must, fight, is freedom,' says Malcolm Turnbull in a thoughtful analysis of effects from the WikiLeaks/Assange matters. He also points out that the High Court in Australia is unlikely to protect the secrets of a foreign government or confidential political information, even if the government wants it to.
Cybercrime: cyning away liberties
Article posted on Monday 11 April 2011
Harmless-sounding international conventions are the latest favoured way for governments to sign away individual liberties, and allow international spying on private data. Anti-rights 'crimes' are increasingly being committed by our politicians in the name of "anti-terror" laws and measures. Adam Brereton has the low down on high-sounding skulduggery.
CLA calls for extradition monitor
Article posted on Tuesday 15 March 2011
Imminent new extradition and mutual assistance laws should incorporate the strong recommendations made by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, at CLA's instigation, for Australia to monitor and report to Parliament annually on the subsequent fate of people we extradite. Currently, like Pontius Pilate, we wash our hands of these people. So far the government has ignored JSCOT.
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