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Human rights resources

Here you'll find resources to dive deeper into crime and human rights topics.

Always start your research with the 'Begin your HSC legal studies research' tab. You'll find current, relevant information from a variety of authoritative sources, including encyclopaedias, journals, newspapers, books, government websites and statistics.

Law books at the Library

Browse the Politics, Economics & Law shelves (at location number 340s) in the Governor Marie Bashir Reading Room to find books that cover all areas of the law.

We also have law books in the Library's storage (onsite and offsite). You can access these books by searching the Library catalogue and requesting them for use in the Library.


Resources for human rights research

Article by Article : the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a new generation

Article 1. Born Free and Equal
Article 2a. Nondiscrimination
Article 2b. Colonialism and Systemic Racism
Article 3. Life, Liberty, and Security of Person
Article 4. Freedom from Slavery
Article 5. Torture and Relativism
Article 6. Person Before the Law
Article 7. Equality Before the Law
Article 8. Having Fundamental Rights
Article 9. No Arbitrary Arrest
Article 10. Fair Public Hearing
Article 11. Innocence and Nuremberg
Article 12. The Right to Privacy
Article 13. Freedom of Movement and COVID-19
Article 14. The Right to Asylum
Article 15. The Right to a Nationality and Statelessness
Article 16. Marriage and the Family
Article 17. Property and Essential Needs
Article 18. Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion
Article 19. Information, Opinion, and Expression
Article 20. Freedom of Assembly and Association
Article 21. The Right to Participation in Government
Article 22. Social (Security) Justice
Article 23. The Right to Work Today
Article 24. Rights to Rest and Leisure
Article 25. Standard of Living and Social Security
Article 26. The Right to an Education
Article 27. Participation in Culture
Article 28. The Right to a (Good) World Order
Article 29. Duties as Limitations
Article 30. Indestructible and Inherent

Beyond Data : reclaiming human rights at the dawn of the metaverse

Part 1: Before data
1. The main frame
2. Update failed

Part 2: Data, data everywhere
3. The singular-ity
4. (Data) privacy, the handmaiden

Part 3: Beyond data
5. A brave new world
6. Against the datafication of life
7. Back to the future: a return to human rights.

Human Rights

1. Introduction: Thinking about Human Rights
2. Origins: The Rise and Fall of Natural Rights
3. After 1945: The New Age of Rights
4. Theories of Human Rights
5. Human Rights and Social Science
6. The Politics of Human Rights
7. Globalization, Development and Poverty: Economics and Human Rights
8. Universality, Diversity and Difference: Culture and Human Rights
9. Conclusion: Utopians, Endtimers, Slow Borers

Human rights : theory and practice

1. The philosophical foundations of human rights
2. Human rights in international law
3. The politics of human rights
4. Feminist approaches to human rights
5. Imperialism and human rights
6. The social life of human rights
7. Human rights claiming as a performative practice
8. Genocide / Humanitarian intervention
9. Transitional justice
10. Treaties, monitoring, and enforcement
11. Political democracy and state repression
12. Migration and refugees
13. Gil Loescher & Human rights and the environment
14. Indigenous rights and language sovereignty
15. Social movements and human rights
16. Theory in practice : making human rights claims in a human rights way
17. Sexual orientation, gender identity, and human rights
18. Religion and human rights
19. The human right to water
20. The SDGs and economic rights

Humanitarianism and Human Rights [ebook]

Part I Differences or Distinctions?
1. Human Rights and Humanitarianization
2. Suffering and Status
3. Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Morality and Practice
4. For a Fleeting Moment: The Short, Happy Life of Modern Humanism

Part II Practices
5. Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
6. Humanitarian Intervention as an Entangled History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
7. Mobilizing Emotions: Shame, Victimhood, and Agency
8. At Odds? Human Rights and Humanitarian Approaches to Violence Against Women During Conflict
9. Innocence: Shaping the Concept and Practice of Humanity
10. Reckoning with Time: Vexed Temporalities in Human Rights and Humanitarianism
11. Between the Border and a Hard Place: Negotiating Protection and Humanitarian Aid after the Genocide in Cambodia, 1979–1999

Conclusion: Practices of Humanity

Hypocrisy and Human Rights : resisting accountability for mass atrocities

1. The Politics of Pressure
2. The Obligation to Seek Justice
3. Victims and Perpetrators
4. What Happens after Mass Atrocities
5. Doing Just Enough?
6. Choosing Your Audience
Conclusion

Women's Human Rights : A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice [ebook]

Introduction: The Potential for a Feminist Liberation Psychology in the Advancement of Women’s Human Rights

Section I Resistance: Understanding Change When Knowledge Is Constructed from “Below”
1. “I survived the war, but how can I survive peace?”: Feminist-Based Research on War Rape and Liberation Psychology
2. How/Can Psychology Support Low-Income LGBTGNC Liberation?
- Critical Reflection of Section One: Silence Kills in “Revolting” Times: Braiding Feminist Activist Scholarship with the Threads of Resistance, Human Rights, and Social Justice

Section II Liberation: The Transformation of Social Structures
3. From “Welfare Queens” to “Welfare Warriors”: Economic Justice as a Human Right
4. Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women’s Human Rights: Feminist Liberation Psychology in Action
- Critical Reflection of Section Two: What Is Psychology’s Role in the Project of Liberation and Structural Change?

Section III Justice: Praxis Whereby Researchers Work Alongside the Dominated and Oppressed Rather Than Alongside the Dominator or Oppressor
5. Civic Participation, Prefigurative Politics, and Feminist Organizing in Rural Nicaragua
6 The Everyday and the Exceptional: Rethinking Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Garo Hills, India
- Critical Reflection of Section Three: Feminist Intersectional Human Rights: Embodying Justice in and Through Transnational Activist Scholarship
- Conclusion Being Bold: Building a Justice-Oriented Psychology of Women’s Human Rights

Watching Brief : Reflections on Human Rights, Law, and Justice

Part I: Foundation
Part II: Asylum-seekers in Australia
Part III: Human rights in an age of terror
Part IV: Justice and injustice

Children and International Human Rights Law : The Right of the Child to Be Heard

1. Article 12 and child participation
2. The nature and scope of Article 12 of the CRC
3. Implementing Article 12 in practice
4. Child participation in family decision-making
5. The voice of the child in family law
6. Listening to children in school
7. Listening to children in conflict with the law
8. Children's voices in public decision-making
9. National human rights institutions and Article 12 CRC
10. Interpretational enforcement of the CRC: monitoring the implementation of Article 12
11. Conclusion

Refugees : Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's policies are not

Stopping the boats, blocking queue-jumpers, and proving who is a "real" refugee have become national obsessions. Misconceptions about refugees and asylum-seekers seem to be increasing, and governments and media continue to exploit anxieties in the community. This clear-headed book rejects spin and panic to explain what our obligations are and who the refugees and asylum-seekers are. It shows that there is a gap between the rhetoric and the legislated rights of refugees, who have been resettled from camps abroad, and asylum-seekers, who arrive by boat. It explains the difference between asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrants. It shows why asylum-seeker policies, developed over decades, are at odds with legal obligations. With real-life examples, the book reminds us that we are talking about real people and their children.

Human rights movements and organisations

Check the following websites for news, research, reports and fact sheets about human rights issues in Australia and internationally.

 

Videos and Images from The Human Rights Watch