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Tag Archives: human rights
Cartoon illustrations for Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion‘s guide to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. Two earlier QAI illustrated guides can be seen here.
Australian companies are failing to comply with modern slavery laws, “When you speak to a glove worker in Malaysia forced to work around the clock to make PPE for the COVID crisis, or a migrant worker on an Australian farm working in terrible conditions, it brings home just how much more needs to be done,” Freya Dinshaw, a lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
Some pages from an easy-English booklet produced by Queensland Advocacy to assist people with an intellectual disability understand the new Queensland Human Rights Act.
Two cartoons illustrating articles in the latest issue of The Alternative Law Journal.
Today’s Pro Bono News cartoon. For more background see the post ‘Asylum Seeker Workers to Ignore New Laws‘.
Today’s Pro Bono news (the Not-For-Profit Sector online news service) NFP Kneebone cartoon. Read more about the issues between the Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs and government ministers George Brandis and Peter Dutton on the ABC news website here.
‘Advocacy and Disability Not for Profits have reacted strongly to suggestions that funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme [NDIS] may be cut back or the roll-out slowed. The Coalition Government indicated for the first time that the National Disability Insurance Scheme may be hit by funding cutbacks as part of so called “budget savings”’. Read more from the Pro Bono news website here.
Pro Bono is the ‘online hub for people engaged with Australia’s Not for Profit Communities’.
Here is my NFP Kneebone take on the report: