UN Human Rights Commissioner in Oz
The UN High Commissioner For Human Rights, HE Excellency Navi Pillay, will be the guest of honour at a major public event to be hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission in Sydney on Monday, May 23.
Commission President Catherine Branson QC said Human Rights 2011 will be one of the High Commissioner’s only public events during her official Australian visit.
“Those interested in human rights issues will have the opportunity to hear first-hand from leading human rights advocates in a lively and interactive panel discussion involving the High Commissioner and prominent and well-respected Australians such as the father of reconciliation, Patrick Dodson, and Director of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc, Paris Aristotle,” Branson said.
“Discussion will focus on major human rights issues in Australia, including constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, asylum seeker policy, and international human rights issues.”
Human Rights 2011 will also include a special performance by the Bangarra Dance Theatre.
The free public event will be held at the Sydney Town Hall on Monday, May 23 from 5pm.
Those wanting to attend also have the opportunity to ask a question of the High Commissioner or the Panel via the Australian Human Rights Commission’s website.
Details of the event can be located HERE.
The various commentators with something to say about Human Rights in the Australian news media have all got blinkers on. If we believed them, we would think asylum seekers/refugees/illegal immigrants are the ONLY human beings entitled to Human Rights – to the detriment of the majority of ordinary Australians AND legitimate immigration applicants. Yes … remember us?
This present all-talk-no-substance Government and the heartless despots of its Department of Immigration and Citizenship are shamelessly violating our internationally recognised “inalienable” rights and liberties. They mercilessly attack the character and dignity of my fiancée – because she is from a poor family in the Philippines. She is not allowed to visit me because she is poor. I am not allowed to finance her visit because we are not related.
They call her an overstay risk because some OTHER PEOPLE overstayed.
What are they paranoid about? She is a 3rd year Trainee Nurse, and this regional area – where she should be, married to me – has a shortage of nurses… but don’t expect sense from the Gillard crew.
The great Human Rights abuses of the Gillard government, to sentence same-sex attracted people to have the flesh torn from their arses, is abhorrent and goes against all the principles of human dignity. The new “Malaysia Solution”, involves deporting refugees to Malaysia and subjecting them to the laws of Malaysia for years.
Malaysia presently has torture as part of the punishment for same-sex attracted couples making love to their partner.
Whatever we think about refugees, they are not deserving of torture. Making love illegal for same-sex attracted refugees is a disgrace. The Labor party has no place sentencing people to this abhorent regime of terror.
http://www.corpun.com/myjur4.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Malaysia