Attached is the June 2006 edition of the Human Rights Law Resource Bulletin.

This edition of the Bulletin includes articles about:

• The value of the legislative entrenchment of economic, social and cultural rights;
• Rev Tim Costello's call for a human rights approach to human development;
• A recent UN Human Rights Committee ruling in relation to the human rights of an Indigenous man with a mild intellectual disability who was held in a NSW prison aged 16;
• Prisoners, democracy and the human right to vote;
• Information about the HRLRC submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006;
• Information about current HRLRC casework; and
• Details of forthcoming HRLRC seminars, events and training.

For further information, please contact us on (03) 9225 6680.

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