Entries from September 2009

September 25, 2009

Episode 10. Hilary Charlesworth on Bills of Rights

The widespread agreement on the importance of human rights in liberal democracies masks sharp differences between governments’ methods of protecting these rights. What does a country gain by enacting a bill of rights? Do countries that lack bills of rights, like Australia, protect human rights as well as those, like the United States and Canada, [...]