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Howard’s legal positivist stance limits individual rights to the confines of a particular legal system. In the ‘war against terrorism’, there is no safeguard against executive excesses or the seizure by the state of absolute power, no basis to defend the dignity of human persons.
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
‘Do try and get out a bit when you’re there,’ said a concerned friend. ‘You know what you’re like about British telly.’
Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.
Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan examine religious conflict in Australia as part of the Jesuit Seminar Series.
Nation-building is a fraught and messy business. Michael Ignatieff knows that well.
In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.
Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.
Life in Kabul.
Was the decision to deny the Bakhtiyaris refugee status based on all the facts?
Jessica Gadd interviews Dr Nouria Salehi about the rights of Afghan women.
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