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Tuesday 21st July 2009 - Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, South African Constitutional Court
The AHRCentre is delighted to be hosting an evening seminar with South African Constitutional Court judge, Justice Yvonne Mokgoro who will address the topic: 'The Role of Legislation and Courts in Promoting Socio-Economic Rights: the South African experience" Time: 6:30 - 8:00pm
Archived 2009 Thursday 21st May 2009 - Corporate responsibility: failed rhetoric or future remedy? The Australian Human Rights Centre and Allens Arthur Robinsons invite you to a discussion on Corporate responsibility: failed rhetoric or future remedy? Corporate responsibility encompasses corporate ethics, workplace issues, and environmental as well as human rights concerns. In the context of the current financial crisis and moves by the Federal government to explore improved protection for human rights for Australia, the seminar will consider whether corporate social responsibility initiatives are effective or detract from notions of corporate accountability. The role of business in protecting human rights will be a key focus of the seminar. The seminar will include speakers from the Office of the United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human rights, the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Allens Arthur Robinson, the Australian Human Rights Centre and the Gilbert & Tobin Centre for Public Law. Time: 5.30 for 6pm start. Concludes at 7.45pm.
Thursday 14th May 2009 - Human Rights Opportunities Database Launch
● Andrea Durbach - Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law, UNSW and and with a range of Human Rights practitioners available Time: Thursday 14 May 2009 RSVP is essential as places are strictly limited. E-mail your RSVP to careers.hrc@younglawyers.com.au
Friday 3rd April 2009 - University of Sydney and the ARC project present: Gender, Race and Reparations Workshop The Institute of Criminology, Law School, University of Sydney and the ARC Project 'Legal Responses to Systemic Injuries: Towards a new Paradigm for Compensation' present a seminar: * Professor Andrea Durbach, UNSW Law School, Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre For directions to the New Law Building please check the University of Sydney website:
Tuesday 24th March 2009 - Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict: A human rights perspective, featuring Jeff Halper The Australian Human Rights Centre UNSW invites you to Reframing the Israel-Palestine conflict:
Time: 6:00pm – 7:450pm Download the PDF invitation
Wednesday 18th March 2009 - UNSWPress presents, In Conversation with Andrew Byrnes, Gabrielle McKinnon and Richard Acklan. We accept the universal right to live in freedom and without oppression, but are our human rights adequately protected by Australian law? Is a national Bill of Rights necessary? Andrew Byrnes and Gabrielle McKinnon in conversation with Date: Wednesday 18th March, 2009 Download the PDF invitation Tuesday 17th February 2009 - International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Implementation, National and International Monitoring with Professor Gerard Quinn. The Australian Human Rights Centre, the Disability Studies and Research Centre and the Australian Human Rights Commission host this seminar featuring Professor Gerard Quinn. The Professor is the Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of ireland, Galway, Ireland. Date: Tuesday, 17th February, 2009 Download the PDF invitation
Friday 20th February 2009 - Can the UN Combat Racism: A Preview of the Durban Review Conference with Richard Clarke, Andrea Durbach and Tom Calma. In April, the UN’s Durban Review Conference will assess the progress made since the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in South Africa, and determine new strategies for the future. At the conclusion of the 2001 conference, a range of measures were proposed, including stopping the slave trade, preventing genocide and combating the continuing effects of colonialism and colonialist ideas perpetuating racial discrimination. The review process has proved controversial, however, with some states boycotting the conference, and certain commentators advocating a boycott. The Review Conference will be discussed by the following three experts:
Date: Friday 20 February 2009
Archived 2008
Wednesday 10th December 2008 - 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights with Lord Bingham and Elizabeth Evatt AC. The Australian Human Rights Centre, the Initiative for Health and Human Rights and the Diplomacy Training Date: Wednesday, 10th December, 2008 Download the PDF invitation Download Elizabeth Evatt speech. Friday 28th November 2008 - Violence Against Women: the power of men, the power of rights The Australian Human Rights Centre invites you to Violence Against Women: the power of men, the power of rights with Ineke Boerefijn and Penelope Andrews. Ineke Boerefijn is an associate professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, School of Law, Utrecht University. Formerly the ‘Opzij Chair’ at the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University, she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law. Penelope Andrews is Professor of Law at Valparaiso University Law School and Chair of Law at LaTrobe University. She has taught in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa and Europe and has held visiting positions including the Stoneman Professor of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School and the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights, University of Saskatchewan. Time: 12:30pm - 2pm (light lunch will be provided) Date: Friday, 28th November 2008 Venue: Seminar Room, Level 2, Law Building, UNSW RSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by 24/11/08 Download the PDF invitation
Thursday, 25th September 2008 - AHRC Annual Public Lecture, Reconciliation and Human Rights with Stephen Parmentier The Australian Human Rights Centre is pleased to announce that the AHRC Annual Public lecture this year will be given by Professor Stephan Parmentier form the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Professor Parmentier, an international expert in political crimes and transitional justice, will address the topic Reconciliation and Human Rights. Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, will offer concluding observations The lecture, on 25th September 2008 at UNSW, will take place against the backdrop of the Australian government’s apology to the Stolen Generations and the Senate and Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Compensation for the Stolen Generations. Stephan Parmentier (1960) studied law, political sciences and sociology at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium), and sociology and conflict resolution at the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (U.S.A.). He currently teaches sociology of crime, law, and human rights at the Faculty of Law of the K.U. Leuven, where he is the Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. He has been a visiting professor at the International Institute for Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain) and the University for Peace (San José, Costa Rica) and a visiting scholar at the universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa), Oxford (United Kingdom), and New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He is the editor-in-chief of the Flemish Yearbook on Human Rights and the co-general editor of the new Series on Transitional Justice. Stephan Parmentier has served as an advisor to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Belgian Minister of the Interior, the King Baudouin Foundation, and Amnesty International. His research interests include political crimes, transitional justice and human rights, and the administration of criminal justice, and he has conducted research in South Africa, Guatemala, Bosnia, Serbia, the DR Congo, Argentina, and Colombia. Further information about Stephen Parmentier please proceed to www.law.kuleuven.be/linc and www.transitionaljustice.be Time: 6:15pm SHARP Venue: Law Theatre, Law Faculty, UNSW RSVP: Friday 19th September 2008 Cost: FREE The Faculty Auditorium is on the ground floor of the Law Building, University Mall, Lower Campus, Kensington. Metered parking is available at UNSW Gate 14 on Barker Street or Gate 2 on High Street.
Thursday 14th August 2008 Movie Screening - Memory of the Cactus
Thursday 3rd July 2008 The Death Penalty: Why Should Australian Care? An expert panel will discuss The death penalty: Why should Australians care? at an Amnesty International event at the Sydney University Law School Assembly Hall on Thursday July 3 at 6.30pm. In statistics published in April, Amnesty International revealed that at least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and expressed deep concern that many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Vietnam. The event is free and all are welcome to attend. The panel includes:
The moderator: Associate Professor Andrea Durbach, lawyer for the Upington 25 (14 of whom were sentenced to death), South Africa; Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and Director, Australian Human Rights Centre
Friday 28th April 2008 Professor Martin Scheinin Time: 6:00pm for 6:30--7:30pm Venue: Baker and McKenzie, Level 27, AMP Centre, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney , NSW, 2000RSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by 21st March 2008 (essential) Cost: $10 at the door (or $5 concession) - to cover the cost of refreshments Professor Martin Scheinin is Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Director of the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. He is a leading academic expert in the field of human rights, has served as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and currently serves as the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism. He also chairs the International Law Association's Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice. His current research projects include the implementation of a human rights-based approach to development, constitutional issues of the international community, and preventive and reactive dimensions of international human rights monitoring. Professor Scheinin is in Australia on an academic visit.
3rd October 2007 - AHRC Annual Lecture: Sandra Liebenberg
Featuring Sandra Liebenberg, Stellenbosch UniversityProfessor Sandra Liebenberg has published widely regarding the enforcement of socio-economic rights under both the South African Constitution and under international human rights law and equality jurisprudence with particular emphasis on gender equality. She is editor of, The Constitution of South Africa from a Gender Perspective and has recently contributed to the field of socio-economic rights by writing for the journal, Law Democracy & Development on Socio-Economic Rights and Transformation in South Africa.
Archived 2007
Thursday 30th August 2007
Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, President of the Movement for Democratic Change (Leader of the Opposition), Zimbabwe.
Time: 1pm - 2pm, Thursday 30 August 2007 Venue: Law Auditorium, Ground Level, Faculty of Law, UNSW RSVP: Amber Rowe at a.rowe@unsw.edu.au by 28th August 2007
Wednesday 13th June 2007 Malainin Lakhal – Secretary General of the Saharawi Writers and Journalists Union
Malainin Lakhal was born in 1971 four years before Morocco invaded his country, Western Sahara. He lived through the ensuing war (1975-1991), the UN brokered cease-fire and the preparations for a referendum for self-determination - which is yet to happen. In 1999, whilst being sought by security forces as a suspected leader of the Malainin resistance, he fled Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara for territory held by the national independence movement, the Polisario Front. He has since been living in a Saharawi refugee camp since, working as a teacher, translator and Secretary-General of the Saharawi Writers and Journalists Union, bringing the stories of human rights abuses in the Western-Sahara to the world.Time: 1pm (arrive at 12:30 for a light lunch) Date: Wednesday 13th June 2007Venue: Seminar Room, Level 2, Law Building, University of New South Wales RSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by Friday 8th June 2007 (booking is essential) Friday 4th May 2007 Archbishop Pius Ncube – Human Rights Activist, Zimbabwe
Pius Ncube, the Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, is a critical figure in Zimbabwe's civil rights movement and an outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe. A prominent human rights and pro-democracy activist, Archbishop Ncube has been brought to Australia as a guest of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to address the current political and social situation in Zimbabwe.Time: 1pm (arrive at 12:30 for a light lunch)When: Friday 4th May 2007Where: Seminar Room, Level 2, Law Building, University of New South Wales, SydneyRSVP: ahrc@unsw.edu.au by Monday 30th April 2007 (essential as space is limited) Wednesday 2nd May 2007 - 21st Anniversary Symposium: Securing the Environment
The symposium explored the environmental, health and legal consequences of climate change. Speakers highlighted research demonstrating that climate change and environmental degradation present critical challenges to the protection of human rights and the overall security of the nation. The speakers included:
Tuesday 17th April 2007 - Reflections on the Death Penalty: A Panel Discussion The discussion panel featured:
Archived Events 2006 Tuesday 16th May 2006Annual Public Lecture: Human Rights, Human Security - Protecting Rights in the National Interest On Tuesday 16th May a packed Metcalfe Auditorium heard Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics, give the AHRC Annual Public Lecture on Human Rights, Human Security - protecting rights in the national interest. The NSW Attorney-General, the Honourable Bob Debus, MP, opened the lecture and introduced Professor Gearty. Tuesday 15th August 2006John Pace – Former Cheif of the Human Rights Office of the UN Assistance Mission, Iraq The AHRC and the Faculty of Law are delighted to invite you to a seminar by John Pace, former Chief of the Human Rights Office of the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (2004-2006). Faculty of Law Visiting Fellow and AHRC Centre Associate, Dr Pace will address the topic: Challenges for the UN Human Rights Office in Iraq Time: 1pm (arrive at 12:30 for a light lunch) Date: Tuesday 15th August 2006Venue: Seminar Room, Level 2, Law Building, University of New South Wales
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