Recalling the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the standards already set for social progress in the constitutions, conventions, recommendations and resolutions of the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World...

One of the fundamental human rights is the right of every individual to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, which we simplify to ‘HASH’ [1]. The HASH right was first articulated in the preamble to the WHO Constitution (1946) [2]. It appears in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (1966) [3]; and occurs in various human...

Generally speaking, in Australia we have not converted our international human rights obligations into domestic law and practice very well. This is particularly the case in relation to economic, social and cultural rights, such as the right to health, housing, education and so forth. As a result, human rights standards do not enjoy prominence as a tool in planning policy or in holding governmen...

Indigenous language rights and identity practices are marginalised in education, bringing a need for mainstream educators to understand respect ways of knowing, being, sharing knowledge. Engaging elementary students (ages 4.5 12 years), the cross-cultural participatory research was conducted three years that were multimodal, including digital storytelling, singing, e-book making, dance video ma...

1. When Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1992, the new Constitution, adopted in 1996, included a comprehensive list of civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights. The Constitution specifically recognizes the rights to housing and health care, including reproductive heath care, and imposes an obligation on the state to take reasonable legislative and other measures, within availab...