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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2017, 09:14:02 pm »
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Here is an extremely contemporary article regarding the development of environmental rights. The Washington Times have published an article http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/23/hundreds-scientists-urge-trump-withdraw-un-climate/ (If anyone could teach me how to hyperlink, thank would be great  ;D) regarding recent urges to withdraw from the 'outdated' United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 300 scientists have petitioned to a letter written to President Trump, stating that the convention has led to significantly more social and economic issues, with little environmental benefits to compensate.

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If you click the little globe (third from the left on the bottom row in the toolbar above your posting window), it gives you a shortcut for it! ;D thanks so much for the link, very interesting article! :)

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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2017, 09:47:14 pm »
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If you click the little globe (third from the left on the bottom row in the toolbar above your posting window), it gives you a shortcut for it! ;D thanks so much for the link, very interesting article! :)

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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2017, 10:42:18 pm »
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2017, 01:31:43 am »
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Here is an extremely contemporary article regarding the development of environmental rights. The Washington Times have published an article http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/23/hundreds-scientists-urge-trump-withdraw-un-climate/ (If anyone could teach me how to hyperlink, thank would be great  ;D) regarding recent urges to withdraw from the 'outdated' United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 300 scientists have petitioned to a letter written to President Trump, stating that the convention has led to significantly more social and economic issues, with little environmental benefits to compensate.

Great article Rodero. It's interesting to see what comes after the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference. If you're doing Environmental rights as your contemporary issue and you're particularly interested in it, The Guardian does a little section on it on their site that I subscribe to. But, the Australian publications I've seen haven't yet reported on what you've come across, so it's a great idea that you're looking to global publications.
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2017, 04:29:12 am »
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When looking at the protection of human rights in Australia we need to look at the way the Freedom of Speech is being treated at the same time as our right to be free from discrimination is being treated. They are conflicting ideas!

Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to amend 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act to make the law more powerful, and less unclear. This article provides a lot of great quotes and a decent summary from both sides of the coin.
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2017, 06:22:24 am »
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I'm VERY EXCITED to say that "Gay panic defence" has been scrapped as a partial defence to murder in QLD. NSW only abolished it in the last 5 years. In the January Legal Lecture I mentioned how QLD was yet to abolish the partial defence - I'm glad to say they have!

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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #36 on: July 15, 2017, 01:41:53 pm »
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Just came across this interesting article from the Guardian saying:
Activists, wildlife rangers and indigenous leaders are dying violently at the rate of about four a week, with a growing sense around the world that ‘anyone can kill environmental defenders without repercussions...WHAT!

This is really good for your environmental rights notes, your human rights notes, and if you are doing freedom of speech or right to protest as your contemporary issue, then that too! I literally cannot believe this. An excellent piece of Journalism I think.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/13/environmental-defenders-being-killed-in-record-numbers-globally-new-research-reveals?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ecodefenders%3FCMP%3Dsoc_567
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #37 on: July 15, 2017, 04:37:26 pm »
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Not sure if anyone else has been following the Cardinal George Pell case regarding the charges of sexual offences laid against him, but it's been very prominent in the news since the beginning. Also seems like a really good contemporary case for crime, especially for areas like sentencing and the criminal trial process, since there are so many articles on it!

Cardinal George Pell returns to Australia to face historical sex abuse charges
Cardinal George Pell charged with historical sex offences
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2017, 05:00:19 pm »
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Not sure if anyone else has been following the Cardinal George Pell case regarding the charges of sexual offences laid against him, but it's been very prominent in the news since the beginning. Also seems like a really good contemporary case for crime, especially for areas like sentencing and the criminal trial process, since there are so many articles on it!

Cardinal George Pell returns to Australia to face historical sex abuse charges
Cardinal George Pell charged with historical sex offences
Cardinal George Pell: A timeline

Especially when looking at how commissions come into it, and how media as a non-legal measure can add to the way a case is dealt with.
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #39 on: July 15, 2017, 05:05:13 pm »
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Especially when looking at how commissions come into it, and how media as a non-legal measure can add to the way a case is dealt with.

Yep! I totally agree (: The media played a huge role in reporting the case to the public and amping up public interest
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #40 on: July 15, 2017, 05:41:34 pm »
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I'm having a field day with media today!

The future of the burqa in Europe becomes more uncertain as the European Human Rights Court found that Belgium's ban of face veils is lawful and "necessary in a democratic society."

"The Strasbourg-based court’s unanimous ruling Tuesday determined that the 2011 Belgian law, which prohibits people from wearing clothing that partly or completely covers the face in public, is justifiable under the European Convention on Human Rights because it aims to “guarantee the conditions of ‘living together’ and the ‘protection of the rights and freedoms of others.’” The two Muslim women—one a Belgian national, the other Moroccan—who had brought the case to court argued that the ban violates the rights of veiling-wearing women to religious freedom and privacy. The court ruled that it does not."

Interesting for human rights, especially if Freedom of Religion is your contemporary issue.
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #41 on: July 19, 2017, 09:56:05 pm »
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If anyone wants a recent/ongoing case for crime the Bowraville case is really good because you can talk about law reform in terms of the 'Double Jeopardy' law and how the CJS must balance the rights of the victim and the offender and the safety of society.

Bowraville Murders
Almost a quarter of a century ago three Aboriginal children, Colleen Walker, Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Evelyn Greenup, were murdered in Bowraville and their killer still walks free.  The circumstances surrounding the three children’s murders have clear similarities, however the legal system at the time prevented all the murders being tried together.  This meant crucial evidence was missing from each trial and justice has not been achieved.
3 children
Circumstances have clear similarities
Prevented from being tried together
Crucial evidence was missing from each trial
Justice has not been achieved

In November 2014 a NSW parliamentary committee recommended that the government review the double jeopardy principle – a rule preventing a person facing criminal trial more than once for the same crime. This is because the only exception is that a person accused of a very serious crime can only be retried where there is ‘fresh and compelling evidence’. When this expectation was introduced in 2006, the families of Bowraville believed that this would allow the alleged killer to be tried for all three murders. However, then arose the issue of whether the evidence in the Bowraville cases met the legal definition of ‘fresh’. Some of the evidence linking the cases to each other and the alleged killer was available during one of the trials but it was ruled as inadmissible.
Parliamentary committee recommended review of double jeopardy principle
Retrial only with ‘fresh and compelling evidence’
Does evidence meet the legal definition of ‘fresh’
Some evidence ruled as inadmissible

In the next couple of months, the relatives of Evelyn Greenup, Colleen Walker and Clinton Speedy-Duroux will travel to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney to finally see the case heard for a retrial. It will be the latest, but arguably the most significant, feat this family from a tiny, socially disadvantaged town on the north coast has achieved in their 26-year pursuit for justice.


There is a podcast about it and it is really, REALLY GOOD.
https://soundcloud.com/the-australian-1/bowraville-bonus-episode-the-phone-call

You can also talk about it in terms of appeals
'Justice over Bowraville murders as case goes to appeal court' 
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/justice-over-bowraville-murders-as-case-goes-to-appeal-court/news-story/5cd6db5fa417408bf68cec88da49f053

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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #42 on: July 29, 2017, 11:34:32 am »
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I haven't yet found a source other than Pedestrian to report on this, so I will follow up with anything more. But, a Brisbane couple has just been charged for human trafficking for keeping a Fijian slave for the purpose of domestic servitude.

What's interesting to me is that the Salvation Army reported this to the police in August last year, but a raid of the house and charge and arrest of the couple was only made this month. I'm curious to know about the investigation process here, and why it takes 11 months. Not to be judgemental of the system, of course, the outcome so far is positive (there has been an arrest and charge). They appear in the Magistrate's Court today so maybe we'll hear more then.
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #43 on: August 02, 2017, 06:11:41 pm »
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This is very interesting...human rights and also crime...and ALSO workplace...

 'Slave labour' and sexual exploitation: calls for investigation into backpacker abuse

"The former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged the agency to investigate legal action after a string of exploitation cases involving working holidaymakers were unearthed by British campaigner Rosie Ayliffe.

Alan Fels, now chair of the federal government’s Migrant Workers’ Taskforce, said Ayliffe had gathered valuable evidence of widespread abuses under Australia’s farm work visa scheme since her daughter Mia was stabbed to death in a Queensland hostel last year."
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Re: Crime and Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments
« Reply #44 on: August 07, 2017, 11:17:26 am »
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Really interesting discussion about a Charter of Rights for Australia here.

I talked on and on about the Conversation in the lectures, but that's because there articles are sooooo full of other resources - all of their facts are hyperlinked. It's a wonderful resource.
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