2014 Media

The Castan Centre's academics are the first port of call for many journalists on pressing human rights issues.Click here to see their areas of expertise, or contact us to find out who to talk to. Below is a listing of some of their contributions for 2014.

• "Reflections on a Dark Week", The Age, 19 December 2014, quoting Castan Centre Director Sarah Joseph
• "Castan Centre Launches Video Project: "Have You Got That Right?"", LOTL Magazine, 26 November 2014
• Michael Short "The Zone: Understanding Human Rights" The Age, 23 November 2014, interview with Castan Centre Director Sarah Joseph
• "The Zone transcript: Professor Sarah Joseph on human rights" The Age, 23 November 2014, full transcript of interview with Sarah Joseph:
• "Have You Got That Right? Australian Video Series Can Tell You the Answer" Global Voices, 3 November 2014
• "Is the government allowed to spy on us?" Gizmodo, 12 November 2014
• Radio interview with ABC 10.00 'Anti-Terrorism Laws', Patrick Emerton, 23 September 2014
• "Explainer does Cambodia Refugee deal comply with the convention", The Conversation.com, 30 September 2014 quoted by Maria O'Sullivan
• "Explainer what Indigenous Constitutional recognition means", The Conversation.com, 18 September 2014 quoted by Melissa Castan
• TV interview with ABC 7.30 'Swan Island protesters claim they were hooded and stripped at ASIS base', Sarah Joseph, 9 October 2014
• "Study suggests UN needs to improve tracking of LGBTI human rights abuses", Gay News Network, 19 August 2014, news article on research by Paula Gerber
• "UN improves on LGBTI rights, despite ignoring many violations" Star Observer, 18 August 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• Radio interview on World Wide Wave on "North Korea: International law and world politics getting in the way of basic human rights", 29 July 2014, Paula Gerber
• "A Crime to Be Gay in Majority of the Commonwealth" Jewish Business News, 27 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "LGBT Group Suggests Australia to Withdraw From Commonwealth" RIA Novosti, 24 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Commonwealth could do with a rub of the green" Irish Examiner, 24 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Australian LGBT group calls for withdrawal from Commonwealth over anti-gay laws" PinkNews.co.uk, 24 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Let's hope the Commonwealth was watching John Barrowman's kiss" WalesOnline, 24 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Commonwealth Slammed over Igbti rights" Gay NZ, 23 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Should Australia legally recognise same-sex marriages validly ..." On Line Opinion, 23 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Encourage, don't isolate, homophobic countries at Commonwealth Games, say . . . " Star Observer, 22 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "Australian rights groups says Commonwealth has failed LGBTI people" Gay News Network, 22 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• "A Crime to be Gay in the Majority of Commonwealth Countries" Pro Bono Australia, 21 July 2014, quoting Castan Centre Deputy Director Paula Gerber
• Deterring and denying asylum seekers in Australia, June 20, 2014,CNN
• Handing over Tamils to the state they fled breaks international law, 3 July 2014, Azadeh Dastyari, The Conversation
• Radio interview with ABC Radio World Today 'US imposes sanction on Uganda gay laws', Paula Gerber, 20 June 2014
• Radio interview with ABC Radio National Program 'Many thousands of Australian children have no 'official' identity ', Paula Gerber, 9 June 2014
• Radio interview on Radio New Zealand International on Dateline Pacific evening editiion, Paula Gerber, 20 May 2014
• 'Anti-gay preachers increasingly target Pacific', 20 May 2014, Radio New Zealand International, Paula Gerber
• 'Preventing another Rana Plaza disaster', 4 May 2014, ECU Daily, Castan Centre and Joanna Kyriakakis quoted
• 'Asylum seekers: we can't ignore our international law obligations', 30 April 2014, The Conversation, Azadeh Dastyari
• 'Children's complaints to the UN could embarrass Canberra, but should be heard', 20 April 2014, The Age, Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan
• Radio interview on SBS World News Radio on Campaign for G20 action on child labour, Paula Gerber, 11 April 2014
• Radio discussion on Radio National Outsiders with Jonathan Green, Sarah Joseph, 6 April 2014
• Opinion piece by Sarah Joseph in the Age, 'Freedom: the government's inconsistent approach', 8 April 2014
• 'We should act on Uganda's oppression of gays' 18 February 2014, The Drum, Paula Gerber
• 'Does Israel's interrogation of Palestinian boys violate human rights?' 11 February 2014, The Conversation, Paula Gerber
• 'More countries with anti-gaylaws than first thought', 7 February 2014, The Star Observer, Paula Gerber quoted
• 'Children and human rights abuses: coming to an international stage?', 30 January 2014, The Conversation,Paula Gerber
• Radio interview with SBS World News Australia '60th anniversary of refugee convention', 22 January 2014, Azadeh Dastyari
• 'Explainer: the legal implications of "tow-backs"', 20 January 2014, The Conversation, Azadeh Dastyari
• 'The man who won't be questioned', New Matilda, 16 January 2014, quoting Castan Centre Associate Dr Maria O'Sullivan
• Radio interview with ABC Radio's PM program 'Calls for national abolition of gay sex conviction', 13 January 2014, Paula Gerber