Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives have become the default response to address so-called governance gaps, situations in which state actors are either unable or unwilling to provide basic rights for their citizen.
Reflections, Recommendations and Next Steps: This report details the outcomes of a workshop held in Phnom Penh on 28 November 2014 - on designing and implementing transformative reparations for sexual and gender-based violence.
Our first article for the student voice is by Georgie Richardson, Student Editor at the Australian Journal of Human Rights, on two proposed laws in Iran that could, if approved, restrict Iranian women’s sexual and reproductive rights.
AHRCentre Project Director Jed Horner will be presenting, with Dr Gabrielle Scandurra and Jane Carroll, at a free seminar on Friday, 20 March, from 9am to 10am - on TB amongst migrants in NSW, current TB research in Australia, and the ethics of isolation in TB. Read more...
Hannah Woolaver will analyse the recent landmark decision of the SA Constitutional Court in the Southern African Litigation Centre v National Director of Public Prosecutions, focusing the exercise of universal jurisdiction in SA courts.
Students with cognitive disability experience higher rates of abuse, neglect and exploitation than students without disability. The seminar will be of interest to education, disability support, child protection and legal practitioners, researchers, and families of children and young people with disability.
Rashida Manjoo, addressing the normative gap in international human rights law in regards to violence against women - on developing an international globally legally binding instrument that states could be held accountable to.
The defence of human rights using legal tools covers the rights of all human beings. But does it also include the rights of legal entities, ranging from corporations to associations of peasants and indigenous communities?
The Centre is interested in this session: George Newhouse will discuss the unanswered questions arising from the High Court decision in the recent case of 157 Tamils intercepted and detained by Australian Border Protection on the high seas.
Delegates at the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Conference on Gendered Violence and Violations held at UNSW last week, unanimously approved a resolution calling for an internationally legally-binding instrument on eliminating violence against women.
