11 March 2005
LAUNCH OF HUMAN RIGHTS REGISTER
What are your human rights? Can you name them?
In 1948 the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights listing thirty "equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" which constitute the "foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world"
Those rights include:-
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (Article 1)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Article 5)
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law (Article 7)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. (Article 9)
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (Article 11)
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Article 14)
In recent years concern has arisen at the disregard of these fundamental rights in Australia. In response to those concerns the Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace in Melbourne has compiled a Human Rights Register which records individual reports and accounts of developments and violations in regard to human rights and analyses them in the light of the human rights conventions that Australia has ratified. It focuses on individual instances within Australia and contains reports from community legal centres, non-government organisations and the national media.
The 2004 edition of the register was recently launched in Melbourne and is available for inspection at the Catholic Commission for Justice, Development & Peace website.
In 1948 the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights listing thirty "equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" which constitute the "foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world"
Those rights include:-
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (Article 1)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Article 5)
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law (Article 7)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. (Article 9)
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (Article 11)
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Article 14)
In recent years concern has arisen at the disregard of these fundamental rights in Australia. In response to those concerns the Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace in Melbourne has compiled a Human Rights Register which records individual reports and accounts of developments and violations in regard to human rights and analyses them in the light of the human rights conventions that Australia has ratified. It focuses on individual instances within Australia and contains reports from community legal centres, non-government organisations and the national media.
The 2004 edition of the register was recently launched in Melbourne and is available for inspection at the Catholic Commission for Justice, Development & Peace website.
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