AHRC Events Index

The Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRCentre) is an inter-disciplinary research and teaching institute based in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Established in 1986, the AHRCentre aims to increase public awareness of academic scholarship in domestic and international human rights standards, laws and procedures through research projects, education programs and publications.

The Centre brings together practitioners, research fellows and student interns from Australian and international universities and organisations who engage in a number of research and teaching activities. The Centre also publishes the Australian Journal of Human Rights and the Human Rights Defender and hosts a number of seminars and events each year.

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	AHRCentre News

	Upcoming Events
	2009 AHRCentre Annual Public lecture - Religious challenges to human rights - Can secularism contribute to peace-making in the Middle East? with Professor Frances Raday Frances Raday holds the Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University and is Director of the Concord Research Institute for Integration of International Law in Israel. She was Chair of the Lafer Center for Women’s Studies and of the Academic Committee of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and Chief Editor of the Israel Law Review. She has been counsel in key legal proceedings on labour and discrimination issues and from 2000 - 2003, she was an Expert Member of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Date: Tuesday, 17 November, 2009 Time: 6.15pm - 7.45pm (followed by a reception) Venue: G04 Theatre, Law Building, UNSW Cost: FREE RSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by 13/11/09 Online registration will be available HERE from Monday 19th October 2009.

	Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific: Towards Institution Building Conference
	The Sydney Centre for International Law would like to bring to your attention the upcoming International Conference on 'Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific: Towards Institution-Building' to be held at Sydney Law School on 27-28 November 2009. Download Information Register Online

	AHRCentre presents, *Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy, a seminar by David Kinley based on the recently published book of the same name. Thursday 15th October 2009*

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	Current Publications
	Australian Journal of Human Rights - AJHR
	CALL FOR ARTICLES for AJHR special issue on disability and human rights (download further information). NEW EDITION OUT NOW Volume 14 Issue 2: January 2009 .
	Human Rights Defender - HRD
	Current edition Volume 18: Issue 2: June 2009


	Current News
	Australian Human Rights Centre calls for comprehensive, progressive and enduring human rights mechanism which seeks to "prioritise individual and collective human rights over parliamentary sovereignty." Australian Human Rights Centre participates in Joint Submission by International Academic Programs to UK Joint Committee on Human RIghts Inquiry into Business and Human Rights, May 2009. DOWNLOAD SUBMISSION For more information please link to our Publications page.

Australian Human Rights Centre - Level 1, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 - Ph: +61 2 9385 1803 Fax: +61 2 9385 1778 Email: ahrc@unsw.edu.au