human rights – arena

Do No Harm

November 1, 2012 – 2:44 pm

Arguing for humanitarian intervention

By Jasmine-Kim Westendorf

Posted in Arena Magazine, Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged civil war, human rights organisations, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, humanitarian intervention, international human rights, Intervention, Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, militia violence, peacekeeping, Uganda, War and Peace | Comments Off

Shifting Fortunes: Mount Nancy

June 21, 2012 – 9:27 pm

On the ground in Mount Nancy Town Camp

By Barbara Shaw

Posted in against the current, Arena Magazine | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous Australians, Intervention, legislation, Northern Territory | Comments Off

The intervention in context

September 5, 2011 – 10:47 am

Peter Billings (ed.), Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth Intervention, special issue of Law in Context (Federation Press, Sydney, 2011)

Posted in Review | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Edition 113, Indigenous Australians, Intervention | Comments Off

Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, Arab, archaeology, Captain Cook, colonisation, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism | Comments Off

Response to Lattas and Morris’ ‘Blinkered Anthropology’

November 14, 2010 – 9:32 am

Francesca Merlan in defence of the NT Intervention

Posted in Comment & Debate | Also tagged alcoholism, Andrew Lattas, Anthropology, Barry Morris, Basicscards, colonialism, Francesca Merlan, Income Management, Indigenous Australians, indigenous people, Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Intervention, self-determination, state, substance abuse | Comments Off

The ‘Devil’ in Haiti

March 2, 2010 – 5:09 pm

Victims of colonialist exploitation for centuries, Haitians need more than temporary aid. Aurélien Mondon on Haiti.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged against the current, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, Aurélien Mondon, colonialism, democracy, Haiti, International Monetary Fund, slavery, United Nations | Comments Off

Anaesthetising the National Conscience

April 2, 2004 – 5:37 pm

Julian Burnside The Howard Government’s Refugee Policy is a Hypocritical Contradiction of the
oft-espoused rhetoric of the ‘Fair Go’

Posted in features | Also tagged asylum seekers, Julian Burnside, refugees, Tony Abbott | Comments Off

Kingdom of Nothingness

April 2, 2004 – 5:35 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in editorial | Also tagged "queue jumpers", Afghan refugees, asylum seekers, Christopher Pyne, Guy Rundle, Quarterly Essay, refugees | Comments Off

I’m Branded

August 2, 2001 – 7:46 pm

Jeannie Rea: No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged activism, advertising, anarchist theory, anti-corporate movement, appropriation, branding, capitalism, consumer protest, culture jammers, democracy, environmental destruction, exploitation, free trade, Jeannie Rea, media, Naomi Klein, product placement, public relations, solidarity, sponsorship, sweat shops, working conditions | Comments Off

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

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