No.80 Interview with Dr Alex Wodak
On Friday 22 July 2011, Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Conference was held in Melbourne. Dr Alex Wodak AM, President of ... Read More
Topic: International Affairs
No.79 High Court Rules Against Malaysia Solution
31 August 2011 Today the High Court ruled that the Malaysia Solution was invalid. In a 6-1 judgment, the Court held invalid the Minister for Immigration ... Read More
No.77 Lest We Forget: The Amnesia Preserving Australian Self-Image
Tomorrow, the challenge to the Malaysia Solution will be heard before the Full Bench of the High Court amidst claims that asylum seekers registered with ... Read More
No.76 Conference – McCormack and McDade
On Friday 22 July 2011, Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Conference was held in Melbourne. Right Now writer Hanne M Watkins ... Read More
No.74 Panel – Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden
On Wednesday 20 July, the Monash University Alumni Speaker Series presented a panel entitled “Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden and what it ... Read More
No.70 Australia’s Cluster Bomb Ban: Are We Setting The Right Example?
Australia signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, the same day it was open for signature. The treaty, which was drafted in ... Read More
No.69 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Right to Connect
On Friday 22 July 2011, Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Conference was held in Melbourne. US Consul General Michael Thurston addressed ... Read More
No.67 Australia and Malaysia sign asylum seeker deal
26 July 2011 Yesterday the Australian and Malaysian governments officially signed the agreement to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia in exchange for 4000 United ... Read More
No.66 Immigration detention system in breach of international human rights obligations
22 July 2011 Mandatory detention, the continued detention of children and prolonged detention have led to the most serious breaches of the human rights of ... Read More
No.64 Development’s Underbelly: Sex Work and Women’s Rights in Iraqi Kurdistan
Thanks to our friends at Voiceworks we’re pleased to present the following article by Bridget Chappell, a young Australian writer, on the criminalisation of sex ... Read More