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COVIDSafe and Identity: Governance Beyond Privacy
By Kate Galloway and Melissa Castan There has rarely been a greater test of our structures of governance than the flurry of lawmaking amidst the declared emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. Self-containment and restrictions on public (physical) engagement are starting to take their toll. Consequently, while fearful of the worst-case scenario of this terrible disease, some individuals…
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Monthly Human Rights Round-up – April
By Brianna Cox, Celeste Rebecchi, Lachlan Cameron and Zoë Tripovich Presenting the Castan Centre’s monthly human rights round-up, highlighting some of the month’s most important human rights news articles, and upcoming events. NEWS In Australia COVID-19 and Human Rights in Australia What Australia’s ‘extreme’ new coronavirus laws and police powers mean for our civil liberties –…
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Director’s Message
By Professor the Hon Kevin Bell AM QC, incoming Director of Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University My first official external appearance as the incoming Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law will be this Wednesday, 29 April 2020. It will be before the Royal Commission into Victoria’s…
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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…
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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…
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