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The Little Centre that Could
Marius Smith looks back on 14 years at the Castan Centre. When I started at the Castan Centre in 2005, I could immediately feel the energy from the Law Faculty’s human rights community. The centre was small, but already well run by a great administrator, Kay Magnani, and a group of enthusiastic, early career academics…
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Changes at the Castan Centre
IN PRAISE OF ELEANOR JENKIN By Sarah Joseph, Castan Centre Director I take this opportunity to write a note of appreciation for Eleanor Jenkin, our Policy Manager from August 2017 until April 2019. In that role, Eleanor added greatly to the research and policy footprint of the Castan Centre. In particular, she was the main…
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Welcoming our new team members
OUR NEW POLICY MANAGER Karin Frodé joined the Castan Centre in August 2019 as the new Policy Manager. In this role, Karin conducts research and legal analysis across a broad range of human rights issues. She is currently working on the Centre’s use of force project which examines the use of force in closed environment…
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Castan Centre Goes to Geneva
By Sarah Joseph, Castan Centre Director In June of 2019, I was fortunate to attend the first week of the 41st Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council at the Palais Nations in Geneva. In doing so, I witnessed a number of important debates on human rights. I highlight the following. A report was…
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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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