Australia Should Set the Global Agenda on Business and Human Rights

An opinion piece in the March 2010 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre Bulletin, written by Centre Director Phil Lynch and a Senior Lawyer with the Centre, Emily Howie.

In it they explore the unique opportunity the Rudd government now has to promote the advancement of business and human rights at the international level. More:

In this same issue, Phil Lynch also takes on opponents of a Human Rights Act or Charter for Australia, exposing some of the false claims being made by assorted critics and arguing that political leadership on an already popular Human Rights Act would unite us through legal protection and institutional strengthening of those Australian democratic values we hold in common. More: