Justice Mordy Bromberg, the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, delivered the 2024 Higinbotham Lecture.
Bromberg emphasized the enduring equality of human rights, despite what sometimes seems to be a conflict between different human rights.
“All human rights are equal,” he said. “There is no hierarchy. There is no ranking.”
“One human right does not overrule another when they seemingly intersect. That is because all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.”
In other words, a hierarchy of hierarchy should be abolished, and particularly on an individual basis, no one hierarchy corners the market on how hierarchies can negatively affect people.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/oct/higinbotham-lecture
