Posts Tagged ‘Amnesty International’

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Sydney

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is in its 2nd year and has now grown into a nationwide festival. The vision of the founders of the event was to make human rights accessible.
The Sydney program will run from Thursday, 4 December - Sunday, 7 December 2008 and will include films, music, speakers and action [...]

Business and human rights — from ‘do no harm’ to promoting human rights? Do Australian businesses any longer have the choice?

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Corporations can lift human rights standards where these are inadequate and not in line with international expectations; or corporations can abuse them, often as an unintended side effect of operations, sometimes through negligence and in ‘worst case scenarios’, intentionally to obtain unfair advantage.
For some business executives the shift from assuming that human rights protection and [...]