The Impact on the Human Rights of Asylum-Seekers and Host Communities of Australia's Border Control Cooperation with Indonesia and PNG. Australia regards border control cooperation with Indonesia and PNG as vital for preventing irregular entry into its own territory. Little is known, however, about the implications of cooperation for asylum-seekers or their host communities in Indonesia and PNG. This project is of national benefit because it advances knowledge by investigating whether Australia ....The Impact on the Human Rights of Asylum-Seekers and Host Communities of Australia's Border Control Cooperation with Indonesia and PNG. Australia regards border control cooperation with Indonesia and PNG as vital for preventing irregular entry into its own territory. Little is known, however, about the implications of cooperation for asylum-seekers or their host communities in Indonesia and PNG. This project is of national benefit because it advances knowledge by investigating whether Australia can more effectively safeguard the human rights of asylum-seekers and others affected by its regional border control cooperation. The results of this study will enhance the capacity of policy makers to deal with mixed flows of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers consistently with human rights and thus Australia's ability to play a positive leadership role in its region.Read moreRead less
Ascending the Cross: Soviet Dissidents and the Universalisation of Human Rights. This project will study the contribution of persecuted dissidents to a diplomatic revolution. It will investigate how apparently powerless Soviet intellectuals like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn used their moral authority to transform detente and challenge the notion that human rights was an internal affair of sovereign states. My hypothesis is that this challenge helped to provoke the 1970s human rights boom, which sch ....Ascending the Cross: Soviet Dissidents and the Universalisation of Human Rights. This project will study the contribution of persecuted dissidents to a diplomatic revolution. It will investigate how apparently powerless Soviet intellectuals like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn used their moral authority to transform detente and challenge the notion that human rights was an internal affair of sovereign states. My hypothesis is that this challenge helped to provoke the 1970s human rights boom, which scholarship traditionally attributes to the inspirational role of President Carter and Western NGOs. By illuminating the role of non-Western citizens, this research calls into question prevailing assumptions about the specificially Western sources of the emerging international human rights order.
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