AHRCentre Deputy Director Justine Nolan writes that while there is no doubt that global supply chains have long been associated with a range of human rights violations, such harms are now being increasingly well documented, leading to greater demands for corporate accountability.
On 25 May 2016 Michael Posner delivered the AHRCentre Annual Lecture to a crowd of over 300 people in the Law Theatre at UNSW Law. To listen or read his lecture or access more information on business and human rights, click on the title above.
Can a business degree teach you how to be a responsible corporate citizen when it comes to human rights? Listen to a podcast with ABC's Radio National's Phillip Adams and Amruta Slee as they speak with Michael Posner, who will deliver the AHRCentre Annual Lecture tomorrow night.
Michael Posner will deliver tomorrow night's AHRCentre Annual Lecture. Today he wrote about global economic inequality, the centrality of investing in long-term sustainable business models and other business and human rights issues in The Conversation. Read the article here...
The AHRCentre, with input from Australian Bureau of Statistics experts, is in the process of creating a survey on sexual assault and harassment and the effectiveness of reporting procedures for Australian universities. Read more from UNSW's VC Ian Jacobs' recent article...
Samudhya Jayasekara, our AJHR intern, writes that the 2016 Guantanamo Closure Plan offers a strong indication that Bush’s gun-slinging ‘War on Terror’ is slowly losing traction...but only time will truly tell. Read the full article.
On 5 May 2016, AHRCentre Chair Prof Andrew Byrnes delivered evidence to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade on Australia's advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty. Read more...
HRD student editor Rohan Muscat argues that clearly there is an urgent need for significant reform on our criminal justice system, and this can only take place after we reconceptualise people with complex needs. Read more about this...
AHRCentre Deputy Director Justine Nolan's latest book examines how, in a global economy, multinational companies often operate in jurisdictions where governments are either unable or unwilling to uphold even the basic human rights of their own citizens. Read more...
No system of capital punishment is immune from the capricious and arbitrary prejudices that obscure justice in even the most free and equal societies, let alone those which today remain under the grip of totalitarianism, writes Josh Thorp for The Student Voice.
