Dr Pichamon Yeophantong has received a prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for a project to study the impact of Chinese resource investment in mainland Southeast Asia.
Protest is an essential tenet of free speech. It is a way of holding those in power to account. It makes politicians hear citizens’ voices at times when we don’t have a ballot paper in hand. It lets us tell corporations that their actions are not up to scratch. Read more from Hannah Wootton...
This issue aims to bridge scholarship, policy and practice, highlighting the valuable expertise that the next generation of scholars in forced migration studies can share with one another and with the wider community. Evidence-based, non-partisan research will make a difference...read more
For The Student Voice, HRD Editor Hannah Wootton writes about the reasons for seeking refuge and how climate change has worsened historical problems - with implications of rights to protection, soft law and safeguards for the future.
AHRCentre project directors Andrea Durbach, Louise Chappell and Sarah Williams have written the foreword for the International Journal of Human Rights, their special issue on transformative reparations for sexual violence post-conflict.
The modern slavery risk is real and the Australian Government is currently considering the introduction of legislation to require commercial organizations to report on the risk of modern slavery in their supply chain.
The speakers highlighted the importance for all victims of human rights abuses to be granted access to justice. They also spoke of the importance of building capacity for prosecutions and trials at a national level, so that justice does not have to occur in a remote location. Read more...
Australian companies, for the most part, fail to adequately respond to human rights risks in their operations and supply chains - while expert advice on business and human rights has been dismissed outright by the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.
Renowned political science and human rights scholar, Professor Louise Chappell will take up the role of Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute.
