The Howard Government continues to show a fragrant disregard for international human rights laws.  Their continued use of offshore ‘processing centres’, Temporary Protection Visas, Bridging Visa E’s regime (that deny people the right to work and medicare and an income) and our Mandatory Detention policies are all breaches of key human rights conventions we are signatories to including the: Convention on the Rights of the Child, ICCPR and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  For example denying people the right to work, health and food is a fundamental breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  We need to be asking when will our government start upholding the laws that is has in principle agreed to be bound by?