Articles by Joan Staples
- Profile
- Joan Staples is a Melbourne-based political scientist focusing on civil society and ngos, especially environmental ngos, and their role in democracy. Her career has been in policy and advocacy working with national ngos involved in campaigns all over Australia and she played a strong role in the formative years of the Greens.
Democracy, Social Justice
The Right To Advocate And Protest Is At The Core Of Our Democracy
This paper formed part of the Green Institute Report ‘Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature’. As an Australian, I am proud that my country was central to both the writing and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The head of the Australian delegation and later President of the UN General Assembly was Australia’s Dr H.... Read More