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Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
The Castan Centre is a world-renowned academic centre using its human rights expertise to create a more just world where human rights are respected and protected, allowing people to pursue their lives in freedom and with dignity.
COVID-19
- COVID19 and Human Rights in Australia - Four part series by Professor the Hon Kevin Bell
- COVIDSafe and Identity: Governance Beyond Privacy
- Is protesting during the pandemic an 'essential' right that should be protected?
- Explainer: what are the laws mandating self-isolation and how will they be enforced?
- The new powers governments are enacting to stop the spread of coronavirus
- The COVID-Safe tracing app, your privacy, and the role of law
- Tell the PM: protect our privacy in the COVIDsafe app
News and Events
- Event: Castan Centre / King & Wood Mallesons Annual Lecture with Professor Megan Davis - 27 October 2020
- Event: Housing, Homelessness and Human Rights in Australia - 9 November 2020
- We are working towards a future where the right to housing is respected, protected and fulfilled for all. We underlined this in a submission quoted in the Senate's interim report of the inquiry into homelessness
- We are proud to support the strong application prepared by Monash University's entrant to the AHURI Housing Network. AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management co. Its mission is ‘to inform & impact better housing, homelessness, cities &related urban outcomes, through the delivery & dissemination of relevant and authoritative research.’
Human Rights Leaders in Conversation: Prof Kevin Bell with Prof Mick Dodson
An interview series by Professor the Hon. Kevin H Bell AM QC, Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. In this first interview Professor Bell speaks with Professor Mick Dodson AM the Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner on 'Treaties, truth-telling and land rights'
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Have you got that right?
Have You Got That Right? is an innovative series of videos answering important human rights questions quickly, clearly and in a way that won’t put you to sleep. The site now includes access to our human rights podcast series.
The Castan - Official Blog
The Centre maintains this blog to enable frank open discussion about various human rights topics
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Join this online event on 28 October, which features AHRC's Commissioner Ed Santow, and @MonashLawSchool's Professo… https://t.co/Z7O0wkZVRd
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We are looking forward to hearing Professor Megan Davis (@mdavisqlder) speak on a subject related to human rights o… https://t.co/dwyND3vhmW
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Today we remember Ron Castan AM QC who continues to inspire the work we do as a human rights law research centre… https://t.co/qJs1lyXInG
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We are proud to launch the 1st interview of our Human Rights Leaders in Conversation with Professor Mick Dodson AM… https://t.co/ZcmK2BVh9r