By Georgina Pickers, NCWQ International Relations and Peace Adviser The horrific events at the mosques in Christchurch, followed by the attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka then shootings at a Synagogue in the United States
2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations, Human Rights & Peace Adviser.
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations & Peace Adviser This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. While in principal it stands solid, the ideals it enshrined are unfortunately not adhered
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ Human Rights Adviser At no time in human history have we been so well informed yet at the same time so unquestioning, accepting news as ‘fact’ or simply lacking healthy scepticism.
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations Adviser It is regrettable that in one lifetime Australia’s heavy labour intensive manufacturing industries such as iron and steel making, shipbuilding s and car manufacturing have closed down or
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ Human Rights Adviser In June 2016 the Queensland Government established a committee to enquire into a possible Human Rights Act for Queensland (popularly referred to as a Bill of Rights). Victoria,
By Georgina Pickers, NCWQ Adviser A recent forum organised and sponsored by the Queensland Justices Association and the Logan City Council was held in Logan city, one of the most ethnically diverse communities in Australia
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations & Peace & Human Rights Adviser While the feminist heart in me wanted Hilary Clinton to finally break the most powerful ‘glass ceiling’ in political history, my pragmatic head
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations and Peace and Human Rights Adviser An associate of NCWQ drew my attention to the on-going legal ‘firestorm’ which started in 2013. It was created by students attending the