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The Holocaust and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Jay Winter

Jay Winter examines the role of René Cassin in making human rights as a fundamental form of Holocaust commemoration.

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The Fifth Estate: Diplomacy, Disasters and Deals: Foreign Policy 2013

At the beginning of an election year, guests from The Lowy Institute discuss foreign policy's likely directions in 2013.


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Intelligence Squared Debate: Euthanasia Should be Legalised

In this sensitive, complex ethical debate, our six panellists debate the proposition that Euthanasia Should be Legali...

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Lunchbox/Soapbox: Sarah Marland on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and their Homelands

Considering political responses to Indigenous rights, Sarah Marland tries to understand why governments have been fai...


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The Fifth Estate: The World's Largest Party: China

China correspondent John Garnaut chats to Sally Warhaft about the behemoth's changing political guard, and what it me...

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Lunchbox/Soapbox: Susan Harris Rimmer on Why Refugee Law is Difficult... Even Without the Politics

Dr Susan Harris Rimmer looks at the broader context of forced migration and international law as it relates to refugees.


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Lunchbox/Soapbox: Paul Ham on the Atrocities of Sandakan

In this eloquent argument for atonement, Paul Ham recounts the barbaric and long-forgotten ordeal endured by Australi...

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Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life

Celebrated High Court judge Michael Kirby speaks with biographer Daryl Dellora about his dynamic private and public l...


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Intelligence Squared Debate: Foreign Aid is a Waste of Money

At the Melbourne Town Hall, two teams argue their cases for and against the true worth of Australian foreign aid.

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Lunchbox/Soapbox: Siobhan O'Sullivan on Animals, Equality and Democracy

In this Lunchbox/Soapbox presentation, Dr Siobhan Sullivan questions the way we view animal rights.


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David Rieff: The Ethics of Intervention

David Rieff and Gareth Evans discuss justifications and nuances of military intervention.

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Lunchbox/Soapbox: Hilary Charlesworth on Women and the New Wave of Democracies

Hilary Charlesworth delivers her proposal for female rights and representation in post-revolutionary states.


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Law and Order Week: Compassionate Bastard

Former Villawood boss Peter Mitchell, refugee advocate David Manne and Peter Mares discuss Australia's asylum seekers.

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Leah Chishugi

The survivor of genocide discusses ethnic conflict and her book A Long Way From Paradise, with Anton Enus.


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Caroline Brothers on the World's Displaced Children

Journalist and first-time novelist Caroline Brothers takes on the issue of unaccompanied, displaced children.

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Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners

How can we reconcile atrocities that have happened in our midst, and where do memory, truth and justice fit?


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Injustice Anywhere: Human Rights in Practice

Alan Attwood, Debbie Mortimer, Julian Burnside and Rob Stary discuss the theory and practice of human rights today.

 

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