Australia, Human Rights and Foreign Policy

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REFERENCES 1. Alison Brysk, Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy (2009) 31. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. See generally, Brysk, above n I. 5. There is strong evidence, for example, that Canada’s domestic Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its foreign policy on ‘Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance’ have formed a virtuous circle and been mutually reinforcing: see, eg, Louise Arbour, ‘The Responsibility to Protect and the Duty to Punish: Politics and Justice in a Safer W orld ’ (2001) 59 Behind the Headlines I ; Brysk, above n 1,91,226. 6. For example, Australia should consider joining the Human Security Network, a group o f like-minded states such as Canada, Ireland, Costa Rica and Norway, formed to further develop and enact the ‘human security agenda’, including the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine at 29 October 2009. 7. Brysk, above n 1,6. 8. Ibid 7. 9. See, eg, Brysk, above n 1,224. See also Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy (2000) and Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999). 10. Brysk, above n 1,7. I n the course of the recent periodic review of Australia by the UN Human Rights Committee, one of the independent experts called on Australia to grasp its opportunity — and fulfil its obligation — to become a ‘AAA’ human rights state.