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Strengthening Human Rights Abroad
By Andrea Olivares Jones The Castan Centre has this year been delighted to continue our multi-year cooperative project with Vietnam National University (VNU) School of Law to promote and strengthen human rights education abroad. The project has seen the Castan Centre attend the Vietnam-Australia Human Rights Dialogue in 2018, host an Australian educational tour for…
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Global Climate Strike 2019
On 20 September, the Castan Centre had the privilege of standing in solidarity with more than 400,000 Australians, and millions of activists from around the world to demand government action on climate change at the Global Climate Strike. Climate change has posed dangerous risks for the enjoyment of all human rights, and we at the…
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Attorney-General’s Consultancy on Artificial Intelligence and Automation
By Yee-Fui Ng In March, the Castan Centre was proud to win a consultancy tender of $130,000 to prepare a legal issues paper for the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. The paper explored the legal implications of the government’s use of new and emerging technologies that automate government administration and service delivery in Australia. This included assessing…
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Automating Government Decisions: The Human Rights Implications Of Technology
By Maria O’Sullivan Governments around the world are increasingly using technology to assist them to make important decisions that affect human rights. This expansion in the automation of government decision-making is due to a number of factors, including the availability of huge volumes of data and the push by governments to make decision-making more efficient…
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ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE: HUMAN RIGHTS ’19
By Andrea Olivares Jones In June this year, the Castan Centre was again proud to host our Annual Human Rights Conference – ‘Human Rights ‘19’, welcoming human rights leaders, professionals and advocates for the only Australian conference of its kind. This year, we covered diverse and critical human rights issues including the death penalty, guardianship…
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CHILDREN OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS: AUSTRALIA’S RESPONSIBILITY TO REPATRIATE
By Andrea Olivares Jones & Karin Frodé The 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) presents an important moment for States parties to strengthen their efforts to protect the rights of all children, including those associated with the Islamic State. Since 2012, an estimated 230 Australians have travelled abroad…
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