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Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Submitted by Rick Eyre on December 11, 2008 - 8:52am

December 10, 1948 - the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. There's background on the UDHR on the UN website, at Wikipedia and, lest his role be forgotten, the Evatt Foundation.

In honour of the sixtieth anniversary of this important document I reproduce it in full here:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Of terrorists and cricketers

Submitted by Rick Eyre on May 18, 2007 - 6:26pm

Ever worried about all these new anti-terrorist laws? Ever worried that their wide-ranging discretionary powers would be used for entirely non-terrorism related reasons? Well, it happened in Australia this week.

The Australian cricket team was threatened with action under the Australian Passports Act 2005 if they went ahead with this September's planned tour of Zimbabwe.

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New Zealand sport fans to boycott Australia

Submitted by Rick Eyre on July 19, 2005 - 2:08pm

The future of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy is in grave doubt following the publication of an opinion poll in New Zealand on Monday. The poll found that 53% of those people questioned support the banning of New Zealand sporting teams from touring countries "that violate human rights".

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Tribal extinction in the Andamans?

Submitted by Rick Eyre on December 31, 2004 - 2:07am

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are among the hardest hit locations as a result of Sunday's earthquake and tsunami, being close to the epicentre of some of the quakes. There are fears that some or all of the races indigenous to the archipelago, namely the Great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, Sentinelese and Shompens, may have been wiped out entirely.

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