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About The Human Rights Defender

The Human Rights Defender is a quarterly human rights bulletin, published jointly by the Diplomacy Training Program and the Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Editorial Policy

The Human Rights Defender espouses a non-sectarian stance on human rights. Its primary objective is to provide information and comment on a broad range of current issues in human rights. The Defender aims to be information and education focused, newsworthy and relevant. The Defender also seeks to provide a platform for the expression of critical thinking and the discussion of conceptual developments in human rights.

The Defender seeks to highlight issues not covered in mainstream media and other human rights publications. The Defender has a particular interest in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as indigenous peoples' rights, the rights of women and children, economic and social rights, and development and environment issues.

The Defender is intended to appeal to all those with an interest in and commitment to human rights. It seeks, in particular, to bring together individuals and organisations involved in human rights advocacy and education.

Regular features include lead articles, commentaries, World Round-Up, Human Rights Calendar, Recent Publications, accounts of the activities of the Diplomacy Training Program and the Human Rights Centre, and other short reports on human rights issues and developments. From time to time, the Human Rights Defender produces an issue on a particular theme. Thematic issues are announced in advance and contributions sought.

Contributions - Guidelines

• Readers are invited to submit contributions, including articles, commentaries, short reports, photographs, cartoons and other graphics.
• Contributors should seek to use plain, concise language.
• Contributions should be of approximately the following length:
  

  Articles: Commentaries: Short reports:

  1,500 circa 750 circa 250-500 words

• The Editors-in-Chief reserve the right of final decision on the inclusion of any contribution. The Editors-in-Chief, the Editorial Board, the Diplomacy Training Program and the Human Rights Centre accept no liability for any comments or errors of fact. Rights of reply are given to individuals and organisations mentioned in a contribution.
• Where possible, contributions should be sent to our email address or on an IBM compatible computer disk, using a standard word processing program, together with a hard copy.
• The deadlines for contributions are:

  March issue: June issue: September issue: December issue:

  31 January 30 April 31 July 31 October

Subscriptions

Three issues of the Human Rights Defender are published every year. You can subscribe to one of the options below (all prices in $A):

Organisations/Institutions: Individuals: Students/Unwaged: Overseas (includes airmail):

One Year $80 $50 $30 $90

Two Years $150 $90 $50 $170

Please make cheques payable to the Human Rights Defender. You can also pay by fax using your Visa, Mastercard or Bankcard.

Human Rights Defender Faculty of Law University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA

Tel: (61 2) 9385 1803 Fax: (61 2) 9385 1778 Email: ahrc@unsw.edu.au