Tag: human rights
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Sydney risks becoming ‘city with no grandchildren’ as housing costs push out families, expert warns
Sydney is on track to be “the city with no grandchildren” as high housing costs drive young families to the regions and interstate. New South Wales Productivity Commission research found Sydney lost twice as many people aged from 30 to 40 as it gained between 2016 and 2021. The driving factor for the exodus was…
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Peter Dutton commits to repealing ‘right to disconnect’ laws if Coalition wins government
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election. The government agreed to include a “right to disconnect” in its industrial relations bill, which was rushed through the senate last week in a…
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People’s rights are threatened everywhere, from wars to silence about abuses
People’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective government outrage about some abuses and silence about others because of “political expediency,” a leading human rights group said Thursday. “We only have to look at the human rights challenges of 2023 to tell us what we need to do…
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Human rights in decline globally as leaders fail to uphold laws, report warns
Human rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW). In its 2024 world report, HRW warns grimly of escalating human rights crises around the globe, with wartime atrocities increasing, suppression of human rights defenders on the…