Religious discrimination is set to be debated in parliament this week - more than three years after Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised a bill.
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Even now, 200 years on from the Spanish Inquisition, the locations affected appear to be poorer, less educated, and less trusting.
The Coalition has provided details of the third draft of its controversial bill.
What is at stake with the new bill very much depends on how discrimination is conceptualised and who is doing the claiming.
With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
Comments made during class discussions about 9/11 often put Muslim students on edge, according to a researcher who interviewed 55 Muslim students in and around the nation’s capital.
To put an end to discriminatory laws and practices, more fundamental reforms are needed.
An EU court’s ruling on religious freedom in the workplace demonstrates the perils of legislating for 27 member states.
Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
Iran’s ongoing legal campaign to persecute marginalized groups highlights the pressing need to include human rights in any bilateral and multilateral negotiations over the nuclear deal.
The transitional government has achieved a monumental milestone, but peace agreements in Sudan have been known to fall apart quickly.
When a shipload of puritan colonisers set sail for the New World, maritime science and navigation were fairly unsophisticated.
COVID-19 has delayed progress on a religious discrimination bill. A new study warns countries like Australia are not the bastions of religious freedom we think they are.
To afford sufficient protection to marginalised people in society - such as women in minority religious communities - the state must recognise and regulate religious marriages in a nuanced way.
A round-the-clock strike of Muslim women in a working-class neighborhood of Delhi is India’s most enduring pocket of resistance to religious discrimination, inequality and gender violence.
Amid the hyper-political debate on issues like religious discrimination, we sometimes lose sight of the broader direction of discrimination law and the need for thoughtful, strategic reform.
As evangelicalism spreads across Brazil, some of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious gangs see minority religions as an affront to God. And they’re using guns to spread their gospel.
Rather than asking, “How can we best address religious discrimination in Australia?”, Christian Porter is saying, “This is what we’re doing about religious discrimination; any objections?”.
This proposed bill goes much further than other discrimination laws and weakens existing protections for many Australians.
Michelle Grattan discusses the increasing strain on the Australia-China relationship following the arrest of Dr. Yang Hengjun, and the government’s draft religious discrimination legislation.
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