Refugee Advocacy articles
>> Di Cousens, 'Poets in the Camps, Interview with Janet Galbraith', Pen Melbourne Quarterly, November 2016.
>> Di Cousens, 'Anna Burke: It's time for a rational debate about refugees', Eureka Street, online journal, 9 May 2016. Read here.
>> Di Cousens, 'A reply from an advocate to Peter Dutton about self-harm', Eureka Street, online journal, 8 May 2016. Read here.
>> Di Cousens, 'Manus witness warned: It's very easy to kill you', The Saturday Paper, January 23-29 2016. Front page feature article. Read here.
>> Di Cousens, ‘Human Rights and Buddhism’
Di gave a talk on Human Rights and Buddhism at a round table on Religious Perspectives on Human Rights on Friday 25 October 2019, hosted at the Catholic Theological College, East Melbourne, followed by a related book launch on Islam in Australia. The Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Edward Santow opened the discussion on the day. The idea was inspired in part by a project conducted by the philosopher Jacques Maritain around the time of the 1948 United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, in which thinkers from a range of religious and philosophical perspectives contributed papers on how the newly-emerging modern human rights movement fitted within their tradition’s ethical and spiritual perspectives.
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Di's paper was later published in Zadok Perspectives, Issue 148, September 2020. Human Rights, Buddhism, and the Crisis of Australia's Detention Centres. Read the article here.