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Advisory committee member Magda Szubanski awarded an honorary doctorate

Actor, author and advocate for LGBTIQA rights, Magda Szubanski, has been conferred an honorary doctorate by UNSW Sydney.

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A scorecard to prompt reflection on human rights

A new initiative responds to the need to effectively monitor how countries are meeting human rights benchmarks in their jurisdiction.

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A group photo of advisors to the Australian Human Rights Institute

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Australian Human Rights Institute advisory committee announced

A group of eminent Australians will help guide the Australian Human Rights Institute for the next three years.

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Rosemary Kayess and Disability Rights at the United Nations

Rosemary Kayess gives an insider's view of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities.

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Actions Taken to Address Modern Slavery

A discussion of the challenges and opportunities that exist in monitoring, measuring and evaluating responses to modern slavery risks, intended to help organisations that must report under Australia’s new Modern Slavery Act 2018. Register

3 Oct

Danielle Celermajer and The Prevention of Torture

Professor Danielle Celemajer's book, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach, interrogates the worlds that produce torture in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Register

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We acknowledge the Bedegal people who are traditional owners of the land on which we work. We pay our respect to the tens of thousands of years of stories and community life that has thrived in the Eora Nation and to the Elders past, present and emerging. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.