Julian Burnside launches his vitally important book. I wish I could go to hear him discuss with Anna Funder, who wrote a famous book about the East German Stasi, international and local human rights as not practiced by the Australian Government.
Watching Brief: reflections on human rights, law, and justice is an impassioned and eloquent appeal for vigilance in an era in which ‘national security’ trumps democratic principle, where the legal conventions of the new realpolitik owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva, and where the rule of law and the principle that basic respect is owed to all human beings are being dangerously undermined.
Janet
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