Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Category: Auslaw

  • Facebook’s Dilemmas With Hate Speech, Fake Speech And Free Speech

    Facebook’s Dilemmas With Hate Speech, Fake Speech And Free Speech

    By Sarah Joseph, Monash University If Facebook was an experiment in creating a true “marketplace of ideas,” the results are disappointing, naively utopian and sometimes dangerous. Yet the platform has no easy solution for the daunting problem of moderating its two billion subscribers. Social media provides an unprecedented mechanism for all people — or at…

  • A Voice to Parliament – the change we need

    A Voice to Parliament – the change we need

    By Melissa Castan and Kate Galloway An ongoing inability to consult has caused failure after failure in Indigenous policy, but a Voice to Parliament represents an opportunity for better governance and most importantly, self-determination, Melissa Castan and Kate Galloway write. Listening is the only way forward. Over two years since the launch of the Uluru Statement…

  • The Khashoggi report to the UN Human Rights Council and the Rights to Life of Journalists

    The Khashoggi report to the UN Human Rights Council and the Rights to Life of Journalists

    On Wednesday, 25 June, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings and Summary Executions, Agnes Callamard, presented her annual report to the UN Human Rights Council, including the widely anticipated results of her inquiry into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey in October 2018. Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist…

  • Israel Folau, religious freedom and the limits of toleration

    Israel Folau, religious freedom and the limits of toleration

    By Patrick Emerton The idea of religious freedom is important for liberalism. But the idea is not just an abstract one. It is an idea that has a history ― a context in which it came to be, in which it was seen to make sense. There is a certain sort of work it has…

  • LGBTIQ Rights Around the World: Marriage Equality and the Death Penalty Hide Wider Concerns

    LGBTIQ Rights Around the World: Marriage Equality and the Death Penalty Hide Wider Concerns

    By Professor Paula Gerber Marriage equality and the death penalty for gays frequently receive the attention of the international media. Yet these two issues fail to capture the wider concerns of LGBTIQ people. In the space of just a few decades, talking about homosexuality has gone from being taboo to almost trendy, and in much…

  • UPDATE: HUMAN RIGHTS COLLABORATION WITH VNU SCHOOL OF LAW

    UPDATE: HUMAN RIGHTS COLLABORATION WITH VNU SCHOOL OF LAW

    May has been busy time for us here at the Castan Centre, with many different programs in train, but undoubtedly the highlight was the visit by our colleagues from Vietnam National University School of Law. The visit formed part of a multi-year cooperative project between the Castan Centre and VNU. Under this program, the Castan…