‘Are we there yet?’: measuring human rights sensibilities

Abstract

The Australian Journal of Human Rights is a publication of the Australian Human Rights Centre. Located in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, the Australian Human Rights Centre is an independent non-government organisation dedicated to encouraging multidisciplinary teaching and research in the area of human rights at the national, regional and international levels. The Australian Journal of Human Rights is the first journal of its kind in Australia to be devoted exclusively to the publication of articles, commentary and book reviews about human rights developments in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. The aims of the Journal are: • to raise awareness of human rights issues in Australia and the Asia Pacific region by providing a forum for scholarship and discussion; and • to monitor human rights developments in this region. To achieve these aims the Journal adopts a broad-based multidisciplinary approach to human rights issues. It deals not only with the legal aspects of human rights but also with philosophical, historical, sociological, economic and political issues as they relate to human rights in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.