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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
- If you don't have a COVID vaccination certificate, could you be banned from restaurants, shops and theatres? Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on the right to sexual and reproductive health - challenges and opportunities during COVID-19 Submission to the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers - Perspectives from Australia on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the administration of justice
- 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
- The Australian Human Rights Commission has just released the 2021 Human Rights Awards Finalists. We are proud to announce our Executive Director Professor Kevin Bell AM has been nominated as a finalist in the category of the 2021 Human Rights Medal, along with a list of well deserving human rights advocates. We wish good luck to all of the finalists. Winners will be announced appropriately on human rights day 10 December. More information on the list of finalists can be found on the AHRC website
- Event: Castan Centre / King & Wood Mallesons Annual Lecture with the Hon. Justice Brian J Preston FRSN SC, Chief Judge of the Land & Environment Court of NSW - 9 December
- Event: Public Law in the Classroom Workshop - 10 February 2022
- Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities: Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, November 2021
- Certainty and coherence in the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic). Read Prof Kevin Bell's SSRN paper here
- Housing Discrimination, Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, May 2021
- Submission to Engage Victoria’s Consultation on the Ten-Year Social and Affordable Housing Strategy for Victoria on the Need for a Rights-based Approach to Housing in Victoria, April 2021
- Submission to Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by older persons on the Impact of sexual violence in residential aged care on the rights of older women, March 2021
- 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
Human Rights Leaders in Conversation: Prof Kevin Bell with Deborah Glass OBE
An interview series by Professor the Hon. Kevin Bell AM QC, Executive Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. In this interview Professor Bell speaks with Deborah Glass OBE, the Victorian Ombudsman, on 'The Ombudsman and Human 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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