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	<title>Crikey &#187; human rights</title>
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		<title>OurSay challenges MPs on intervention, banking and personal wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/oursay-challenges-mps-on-intervention-banking-and-personal-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/oursay-challenges-mps-on-intervention-banking-and-personal-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Territory intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Say]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The People's Question]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Questions on the NT intervention, a people’s bank, MPs’ tax and uranium-based munitions returns have emerged in Our Say’s People’s Question project]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Removing race from our constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/crikey-says-removing-race-from-our-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/crikey-says-removing-race-from-our-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal life expectancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We don't collectively identify as racist. And yet there is the undeniable reality that our constitution as it stands still contains two sections designed specifically to discriminate.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/crikey-says-removing-race-from-our-constitution/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey says: no excuse for ignorance when it comes to West Papua</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/15/crikey-says-no-excuse-for-ignorance-when-it-comes-to-west-papua/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/15/crikey-says-no-excuse-for-ignorance-when-it-comes-to-west-papua/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesian military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pacific neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Papua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=259153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At least two journalists have been killed in West Papua, five abducted and 18 assaulted in the past year.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/15/crikey-says-no-excuse-for-ignorance-when-it-comes-to-west-papua/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Menadue: urgent need for a new approach to asylum seekers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/menadue-urgent-need-for-a-new-approach-to-asylum-seekers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/menadue-urgent-need-for-a-new-approach-to-asylum-seekers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNHCR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=242627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We must safeguard Australia’s national interest by ensuring that the claims of refugees and asylum seekers to Australia’s protection are considered rigorously but with compassion, writes The Centre for Policy Development's <b>John Menadue</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/menadue-urgent-need-for-a-new-approach-to-asylum-seekers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Ghana &#8230; caught on the wrong side of the political divide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/letter-from-ghana-caught-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-political-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/23/letter-from-ghana-caught-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-political-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter from...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cote'd'ivoire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=242604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While Côte d’Ivoire may be relatively stable for now, human rights organisations continue to express concern at the government’s seeming unwillingness to investigate and prosecute its own forces, writes journalist <b>Clair MacDougall</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The bureaucracy of Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/the-bureaucracy-of-gitmo-franz-couldnt-have-made-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/the-bureaucracy-of-gitmo-franz-couldnt-have-made-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=219575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin’s famous trade-off between liberty and temporary safety – for those who deserve neither -- stands itemized in human form in the Gitmo documents, in those many files full of misspellings, malapropisms and justifications, the dream-diary jottings of a superpower nightmare.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/the-bureaucracy-of-gitmo-franz-couldnt-have-made-it-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who you calling a human rights violator? China fights back</title>
		<link>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/04/7500-words-chinese-government-us-human-rights-abuse/36553/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/04/7500-words-chinese-government-us-human-rights-abuse/36553/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=217170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After criticism from the United States over human rights abuses and treatment of dissidents, China has fought back by publishing 7,500 words on human rights violations in the US, including racial discimrination and wrongful imprisonment.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>China&#8217;s crackdown driven by economic stresses and an emboldened Left</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/11/chinas-crackdown-driven-by-economic-stresses-and-an-emboldened-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/11/chinas-crackdown-driven-by-economic-stresses-and-an-emboldened-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Communist Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gao Zhisheng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern Hu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=216742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China's crackdown on dissent is only the culmination of a wave of repression by a government facing growing economic discontent.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/11/chinas-crackdown-driven-by-economic-stresses-and-an-emboldened-left/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Democratic reform needs to spread to the Pacific region</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/11/democratic-reform-needs-to-spread-to-the-pacific-region/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/11/democratic-reform-needs-to-spread-to-the-pacific-region/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodore Frank Bainimarama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=209858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiji must hold immediate elections, return to democracy and recommit to a rights-based approach, writes <b>Ged Kearney</b>, president of the ACTU.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/11/democratic-reform-needs-to-spread-to-the-pacific-region/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burma rebrands: a dictatorship, without the uniforms</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/08/burma-rebrands-a-dictatorship-without-the-uniforms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/08/burma-rebrands-a-dictatorship-without-the-uniforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burmese election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictatorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military junta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suu kyi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=183976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday's Burmese election was, in reality, just the junta’s mechanism for shifting away from an overt military dictatorship to a slightly more covert form -- dictatorship without so many uniforms.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/08/burma-rebrands-a-dictatorship-without-the-uniforms/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>CERD committee serves; ball in Oz court</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/cerd-committee-serves-ball-in-oz-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/cerd-committee-serves-ball-in-oz-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=168302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN committee on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (the committee) has given Australia another serve in its latest report, writes <b>Robyn Seth-Purdie</b>, a public policy and governance consultant.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/cerd-committee-serves-ball-in-oz-court/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Search powers Bill to lower the human rights protection bar</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/27/search-powers-bill-to-lower-the-human-rights-protection-bar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/27/search-powers-bill-to-lower-the-human-rights-protection-bar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian Election 2010]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=157764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we have no evidence that new police powers have reduced the carriage of knives in Victoria, we are being asked to accept the need for further watering down of our human rights, writes Jen Rose, manager, policy and projects, Youth Affairs Council of Victoria]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/27/search-powers-bill-to-lower-the-human-rights-protection-bar/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bagram prison: now rights-free</title>
		<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-bagram-20100522,0,787686.story</link>
		<comments>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-bagram-20100522,0,787686.story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bagram Air Base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagram prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habeas corpus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US appeals court has ruled that US prisoners at Bagram Air Base have no right to <em>habeas corpus</em> -- meaning the US can now hold them indefinitely and beyond the reach of America's lawyers and legal system.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Frank Brennan: Why human rights need to be our agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-charter-of-rights-is-divisive-the-vast-majority-think-not-20100422-tfqk.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-charter-of-rights-is-divisive-the-vast-majority-think-not-20100422-tfqk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia doesn't need a human rights charter, the government has decided. Fine, says <b>Frank Brennan</b>, that wasn't the main point anyway. Hopefully the government won't ignore the 87% of respondents who want a human rights act.]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Carr: It&#8217;s our right not to have a human rights charter</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/three-cheers-that-we-wont-have-charter-of-rights/story-e6frg6zo-1225856601001</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/three-cheers-that-we-wont-have-charter-of-rights/story-e6frg6zo-1225856601001#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We don't need a human rights charter in Australia because we don't have human rights issues. Luckily Frank Brennan's recommendations have been ignored, since it was all a waste of time and money, writes former NSW premier <b>Bob Carr</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill of rights: good riddance on &#8216;bogus&#8217; charter v lost chance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/bill-of-rights-good-riddance-on-bogus-charter-v-lost-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/bill-of-rights-good-riddance-on-bogus-charter-v-lost-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greg barns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Allan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julian burnside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's charter of rights is dead on arrival. Good riddance, a human rights academic tells <i>Crikey</i> intern Patrick Tombola, but others like Julian Burnside lament the lost opportunity to recognise those on the margins of society.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amnesty&#8217;s 2009 death penalty report</title>
		<link>http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/death-penalty-report-china-must-end-secrecy-surrounding-sentences-and-execut</link>
		<comments>http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/death-penalty-report-china-must-end-secrecy-surrounding-sentences-and-execut#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[amnesty international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International has released its annual report into death sentences and executions: at least 714 people were executed in 18 countries last year -- but that doesn't include the thousands of "secret" executions in China.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Stop and search&#8217; is racial profiling by any other name</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/17/stop-and-search-is-racial-profiling-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/17/stop-and-search-is-racial-profiling-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Overland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Police]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=123931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop and search powers given to police -- now in use in Victoria, and coming soon to South Australia and Western Australia -- lead to racial discrimination. The evidence can be found overseas.]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott&#8217;s Muslim comment shows the need for a Human Rights Act</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/abbotts-muslim-comment-shows-the-need-for-a-human-rights-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/abbotts-muslim-comment-shows-the-need-for-a-human-rights-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Tony Abbott <a href="http://player.sbs.com.au/naca/#/naca/wna/Latest/playlist/Abbott-outlines-healthcare-plan/">commented</a> about keeping Muslims out of the country. It's proof that we need a Human Rights Act to protect our democracy from personal bias, writes <b>Mark Blumer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights not on the Rudd Team Jellyback&#8217;s agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/human-rights-not-on-the-rudd-team-jellybacks-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/human-rights-not-on-the-rudd-team-jellybacks-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Law Resource Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In those jurisdictions where a human rights law exists, each day thousands of citizens are able to ensure they get better treatment from government.  Perhaps this is why the Rudd government is so scared of a Human Rights Act?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kelly: Turns out, no one wants a human rights charter</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/pm-under-pressure-on-the-wrongs-of-human-rights/story-e6frgd0x-1225831116001</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/pm-under-pressure-on-the-wrongs-of-human-rights/story-e6frgd0x-1225831116001#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Kevin Rudd enact a human rights charter as recommended by the Brennan report? The human rights lobby is powerful and determined, but it would be a foolish act with such a disengaged public, writes <b>Paul Kelly</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/pm-under-pressure-on-the-wrongs-of-human-rights/story-e6frgd0x-1225831116001/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Human rights: why we need a charter</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/11/human-rights-why-we-need-a-charter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/11/human-rights-why-we-need-a-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice michael kirby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emotional, fear-mongering and ill-informed comments about a human rights charter do not make for robust, reasoned, logical debate, writes <b>Mark Blumer</b>.
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Human rights: what is Rudd waiting for?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/20/human-rights-what-is-rudd-waiting-for/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/20/human-rights-what-is-rudd-waiting-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian christian lobby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george pell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the government backing away from introducing a bill of rights? In the absence of any serious negatives, we should expect a human rights act within this parliamentary term, writes <b>Susan Ryan</b>, chair of the Australian Human Rights Group. ]]></description>
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		<title>The decline of human rights in the Age of Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/225784/page/1</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/225784/page/1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=103937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has had to make some tough calls since taking office, but has too often put the principles of democratic values aside, says <b>James Rubin</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The secret US &#8220;black jail&#8221; in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=all</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=all#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagram Air Base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagram prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revealed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Armed Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US is holding detainees in isolated, windowless concrete cells at Bagram Air Base, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to former inmates and human rights workers.]]></description>
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