Human rights - HSC
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Reports and articles from the web
- Human Rights, Australian Human Rights Commission, 2009.
- Charter of Rights Update by Gareth Griffith, NSW Parliamentary Library, January 2009
- Protecting human rights in Australia: a community education kit, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, 2004. Factsheets - Introduction to human rights, age discrimination, civil and political rights, disability, education, environment and human rights, health, housing, indigenous, refugee and asylum seekers, sexuality, social security, women, workers.
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Parliamentary Library Research Papers (relating to human rights)
Links to background and briefing papers on human rights -
Children's rights, Issues in Society 198, 2004
Overview and fast facts - A guide through the maze
New Internationalist, 408, January 2008. - Fast facts on human rights from Issues in Society, published by Spinney Press, religious beliefs, gender equality, refugees, stolen generation
- Bill of Rights, Australian Parliamentary Library, online research guide, July 2009
- Civil and Human Rights, Australian Parliamentary Library, online research guide, June 2009
- Retreat from injustice: human rights law in Australia, 2nd ed by O'Neill et al, Federation Press,
2004.
Chapters 6-7 available online - Human Rights Resources, Kate Eastman, Last updated May 2008
Hot Topics - download from web or find at the library
- Human rights, Hot Topics 65, Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), 2008.
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Bill of Rights (PDF 595kb)
Hot Topics No 54, Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), 2005. - Terrorism (PDF 1520kb)
Hot Topics No 55, Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), 2007.
Media - find newspaper and journal articles
AGISPlus via Informit. A database which includes the fulltext of magazine articles.
Suggested search terms: human rights, refugees, bill of rights, torture, trafficking of children, terrorism, indigenous peoples, capital punishment, child soldiers, capital punishment, children in detention, homelessness.
Proquest ANZ Newsstand. A database of fulltext newspaper articles.
Suggested search terms: human rights, refugees, bill of rights, torture, trafficking of children, terrorism, indigenous peoples, capital punishment, child soldiers, capital punishment, children in detention, homelessness.
Infocus. You can purchase articles from the State Library, or ask your school or local library to order them.
Tip: Select Legal Studies as HSC Subject. Search key words such as human rights.
Websites
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- United Nations Human Rights website
- Amnesty International Australia
- Human Rights Watch
- Oxfam Australia
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- NSW Anti-Discrimination Board website
- Human Rights Law Resource Centre
- New Internationalist
Treaties and Conventions
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Texts and reports at the library
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Human rights in Australia: treaties, statutes and cases, by Martin Flynn, LexisNexis, 2003.
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Law Handbook, 11th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2009. Chapter 19 Discrimination.
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Discrimination law and practice 3rd ed, by Chris Ronalds and Rachel Pepper, Federation Press, 2008.
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Religious beliefs, Issues in Society 292, 2009, fast facts from this volume
Gender equality, Issues in Society 286, 2009, fast facts from this volume
Refugees, Issues in Society 296, 2009, fast facts from this volume
Stolen Generations: the way forward, Issues in Society 289, 2009 fast facts from this volume
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