‘The most common form of child mortality in Australia’: a human rights analysis of Australia’s response to stillbirth in light of the Senate Select Committee Report on Stillbirth Research and Education

Given the depressing effect of the gradual decline in oil production and the slow progress in manufacturing, in contrast to the faster growth of services, the importance of production industries in the economy will be lower by the end of the decade. Estimates based on volume changes alone, disregarding the future course of relative prices, indicate that ‘de-industrialisation’ appears to be continuing. This is not especially a British phenomenon and may be experienced by many industrial countries. It is more important for the UK, however, because falling oil production poses a considerable threat to the balance of payments. Manufacturing ought to play a decisive part in filling the gap and its revitalisation in the coming years is of paramount importance. In this context we are in agreement with the recent Select Committee Report which found the implications of the growing trade deficit in manufactured goods ‘most serious’ and ‘the need for change urgent’.

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Authentic Research, Teaching, Events, and Assessments for Economic Prosperity

10.4018/978-1-7998-8032-5.ch014 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 289-317

Author(s):

Cassandra R. Decker ◽

Merci Decker

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Structural Violence ◽

Community Building ◽

Educational Opportunities ◽

Economic Prosperity ◽

Research Methodologies ◽

Activist Anthropology ◽

Research And Education

Responsive research serves as an alternative platform to address issues of human rights violations, ACEs, structural violence, and systemic poverty in particular as it relates to educational opportunities. This chapter identifies four step-by-step processes that can be used when conducting community-led research and education. Activist anthropology, studying up, studying through, and financial implications of debt foreground earlier efforts made by anthropologists to use their research as a way to examine how policy decisions shape cultural practices and impact the livelihood of specific communities. These efforts are expanded upon by examining the controversy, pitfalls, and rewards found within the epistemological paradigms and research methodologies. The second half of the chapter identifies four pathways researchers can use when engaging in activist anthropology: teaching to a goal; responsive mapping to uncover mystical barriers; community building as the goal for focus groups, interviews, and surveys; and responsive programs and events.

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17. Remedies and limitation

Tort Law Directions ◽

10.1093/he/9780198805359.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Vera Bermingham ◽

Carol Brennan

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Private Information ◽

Committee Report ◽

History Of ◽

Human Rights Act ◽

Human Rights Act 1998 ◽

English Law ◽

Developing Area ◽

The Individual ◽

The Right

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams, and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. The Calcutt Committee Report on Privacy and Related Matters (1990) defines privacy as ‘the right of the individual to be protected against intrusion into his personal life or affairs, or those of his family, by direct physical means or by publication of information’. While a number of different torts indirectly address wrongful intrusion into another’s privacy, English law has not directly protected privacy in its own right. It was the Human Rights Act 1998 that has made it possible to use breach of confidence in regulating the publication of private information. This chapter looks at the history of the protection of privacy in English law, discusses the current legal approaches to privacy, examines the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on this developing area of law, and evaluates English law on privacy in an international context.

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Select Committees: Understanding and Regulating the Emergence of the ‘Topical Inquiry’

Parliamentary Affairs ◽

10.1093/pa/gsz040 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (4) ◽

pp. 879-902

Author(s):

Craig Prescott

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Procedural Fairness ◽

House Of Commons ◽

Select Committee ◽

Opportunity To Respond ◽

Media Reports ◽

Private Corporations ◽

Accountability Gap

Abstract Reforms to departmental select committees have enhanced their authority and independence within the House of Commons. Some committees have used this enhanced profile to investigate the actions of specific individuals or private corporations or organisations. Typically, this is in response to media reports that allege some form of wrongdoing. As the standing orders of the House of Commons empower committees to scrutinise government departments and agencies, this is a departure from established practices. This article examines the emergence of these ‘topical inquiries’, determining the features that indicate their value. In particular, topical inquiries that fill an ‘accountability gap’ are the most valuable. An accountability gap arises when other forms of scrutiny or accountability are merely performative or have failed. When conducting a topical inquiry, committees are underpinned by parliamentary privilege, meaning that those subject to criticism have little opportunity to respond regardless of any reputational, commercial or other damage caused. Consequently, if thought a desirable function of Parliament, then topical inquiries require enhanced processes to ensure procedural fairness and to address potential human rights concerns. This would require amending the standing orders specifying topical inquiries as a type of inquiry that a select committee could pursue, complying with this enhanced process.

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