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The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law seeks to promote and protect human rights through the generation and dissemination of public scholarship in international and domestic human rights law. In pursuit of this mission, the Centre brings the work of human rights scholars, practitioners and advocates from a wide range of disciplines together in the Centre’s key activities of research, teaching, public education (lectures, seminars, conferences, speeches, media presentations, etc), applied research, advice work and consultancies.

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law seeks to promote and protect human rights through the generation and dissemination of public scholarship in international and domestic human rights law.

In pursuit of this mission, the Centre brings the work of human rights scholars, practitioners and advocates from a wide range of disciplines together in the Centre’s key activities of research, teaching, public education (lectures, seminars, conferences, speeches, media presentations, etc), applied research, advice work and consultancies.

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Conference Conversations: Bringing Rights Home

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Conference Conversations: Considering Homelessness in Australia with Fresh Eyes

Published August 10, 2021 by Castan Centre in Australian Law, Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Right to housing
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Conference Conversations: Interrogating Our Self-Image as a Champion of Gender Equality

Published August 6, 2021 by Castan Centre in Australian Law, Women's Rights
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What the launch of Team Trump’s social media platform tells us about free speech

Published July 21, 2021 by Castan Centre in Freedom of Expression, Social media
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Torts and Human Rights: Australian Federal Court Paves the Way for Negligence Based Climate Litigation

Published June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 by Castan Centre in Australian Law, Climate Change
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Is Empathy Training the Answer to Advancing Gender Equality?

Published May 17, 2021June 15, 2021 by Castan Centre in Women's Rights
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COVID-19 Travel Bans and International Human Rights

Published May 6, 2021 by Castan Centre in #COVID-19, Australian Law, Civil and political rights, Freedom, Freedom from racial discrimination
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No, prime minister, sexual assault allegations are not only a matter for the police

Published March 15, 2021 by Castan Centre in Australian Law, Women's Rights
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83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want

Published November 11, 2020 by Castan Centre in Right to privacy
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Published September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by Castan Centre in Australia, Children's rights, Right to Health, United Nations
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