After last month shooting the messenger that was Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs by calling her report a “political stitch-up”, Abbott has once more taken aim at someone delivering an unpalatable message on his government’s pathetic record on human rights. This time the target is Juan Mendez the UN’s special rapporteur on torture. Mendez has found Australia is violating the rights of asylum seekers on a number of fronts under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The report highlights the cruelty that is the long detention of children, it found evidence of escalating violence in off-shore processing centers, and it found Australia was in breach of its human rights obligations to asylum seekers.
Does Abbott intend to do something constructive about this terrible situation highlighted by the UN and others, no! Abbott once again attacks the messenger. I never thought I would ever see Australia’s good name on human right being questioned in the way it has been recently. All thanks to a cruel and inhumane government led by one, Tony Abbott.

Don't u realise Paul that many (possibly most) Aussies see the corrupt UN as a terrible waste of money and an apologist for terrorist. They also largely instigated the gw scam. They are a disgrace.

Dear Paul,

Both major political parties have a lot to answer
regarding children in detention, as Prof. Gillian
Triggs and her Report have already pointed out.

Labor had very large numbers of children in detention
but they kept them for shorter periods. Liberals had
less numbers but they kept them for longer periods.
The record on both sides needs improvement, that's for
sure and possibly criticisms from international bodies
may help push the government into doing something
more constructive - than attacking the Human Rights
Commission President, or calling the Report a "stitch-up."
Perhaps the criticism may help for the report to be
taken seriously.
One can only live and hope.

A major difficulty with international organisations
such as the UN is that compliance with any resolutions and
rulings of its World Court are voluntary, as no country
is willing to surrender its sovereignty to an international
body. The UN is most effective when the nations are able
to agree on a course of action and mobilise their blocs
to support it. In this case - there are many nations
belonging to the UN whose own records on human rights
leave a lot to be desired.

Even so, the organisation does provide an influential forum
for world opinion, and while it does not always achieve
success, it surely helps to draw attention to problems
and possible solutions, which would be less likely to occur
without it.

Paul, when are you going to accept that these people are que jumpers. Besides, we can't cater fir our own people, let alone these so called refugees.

Charity starts at home Paul, and our home affairs and not being catered for at present.

The idea of Human Rights is a religious doctrine and God's law has no place in our modern society, Human rights cannot be allowed to trump civil rights or interfere with the liberty of Australian citizens.
HREOC is attempting to interfere with the political liberty of Australians on many levels, not least in that the race discrimination commissioner has clearly stated that he wants criminal penalties to apply to people who say certain words or string certain phrases together.

Rechtub, que jumpers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mpClSPyhk
What about the real queue jumpers, the Chinese parasite class who are buying their way into Australia? We all know how they make their money in the motherland, how 80% of Chinese live in poverty and are ruthlessly exploited by oligarchs and corrupt party officials, yet these gangsters have the red carpet rolled out for them by both Labor and the Coalition. Bob Hawke still had a mortgage on his Coburg home when he became prime minister, now he's worth an estimated $250 million which can be explained by his 90 some trips to China where he is engaged as a real estate broker, consultant and lobbyist.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/chinese-secure-northern-foodbowl-as-row-over-ord-river-lease-continues/story-fn59niix-1226516223693