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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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Descendants of Jewish families who fled Nazi Germany still being denied citizenship
By Caroline Henckels, Monash University Germany’s constitution contains a provision that permits citizenship to be granted to descendants of persons stripped of their German citizenship by the former Nazi regime for political, racial or religious reasons. In practice, this provision, Article 116(2), is mostly – although not exclusively – directed at descendants of Jewish refugees from Germany.…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COLLABORATION: CASTAN CENTRE ACADEMICS TRAVEL TO VIETNAM
In July and August, academics from the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law had the pleasure of returning to Vietnam as part of our multi-year cooperative project with VNU School of Law to strengthen human rights education in Vietnam. Our Director, Sarah Joseph, along with Deputy Director Joanna Kyriakis and Castan Centre Associates Heli Askola…
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