Prisoner Rights are Human Rights
2010 - Volume 13 Number 2
Our prisons are full of people who are vulnerable and at risk. Prisoners are often young, mentally ill, suffering from drug dependency, poor or Indigenous – or all of these. It is for this reason that we must be committed to protecting the human rights of our prisoners, and prisons must be complemented with adequate housing, employment, drug treatment and mental health support.
April 14, 2016
War by Remote Control
2010 - Volume 13 Number 1
We may be wired for war but are we wired for weighing the consequences? What happens when science fictions becomes battlefield reality?
There are philosophical and ethical questions when a soldier thousands of kilometres away can, as if playing a video game, sit in a control room before a computer and obliterate an Afghan or Pakistani village or Taliban hideout by remote control then sign off, go home for dinner with his family and play with his/her children. It is war by remote control. It is also ‘execution without trial’. The use of drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) will not make the world safe and will lead us to lose trace of the morals of armed conflict?
April 14, 2016
Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers 2nd Edition
2010 - Volume 12 Number 5
At the height of political dog-whistling in 2002 the Edmund Rice Centre led an important effort to bring clarity to the national debate through the publication of the accessible fact-sheet: Debunking the Myths on Asylum Seekers
It now appears to be necessary to revisit the topic to once again bring a factual spotlight to the debate for this coming election year!
April 14, 2016