Past Events

This seminar will highlight the deteriorating human rights situation in Saudi Arabia and the reality behind the reforms of the Saudi regime.

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.

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.

With only her sense of humour to defend her, Magda Szubanski has copped some of the worst social media has to offer. How do we survive the cyber marketplace of ideas?

What's the value of a human rights approach in social policy?

Professor Mark Goodale, University of Lausanne, argues that human rights can and should form the basis for both justice-seeking and specific social and institutional action in the future.