Human Rights 2006: The Year in Review
The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference
Friday 1 December 2006
The CUB Malthouse,
113 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne
Mr Malcolm Langford
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Germany
Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Centre on Human Rights, University of Oslo
"Tragedy or triumph of the Commons? Human rights and the world water crises"
Mr C Raj Kumar
School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
"Corruption as a human rights issue in South Asia: law, development and governance"
Mr Alex Tilman
Melbourne Representative FRETILIN
"Justice for Timor-Leste. How?"
Dr Scott Burchill
School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University
"Avoiding the cause: Australia and political persecution in West Papua"
Ms Azadeh Dastyari
Law Faculty, Monash University
"Offshore processing" an Australian phenomenon?"
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Dr Joo-Cheong Tham
Law School, University of Melbourne
"Deconstructing the logic of responding to one threat with another: the perils of countering terrorism by eroding human rights"
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Dr Carolyn Evans
Deputy Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne
"Religious freedom and religious hatred in democratic societies"
Dr Julie Debeljak
Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
"Mission impossible: "Possible" interpretations under the Victorian Charter and their impact on parliamentary sovereignty and dialogue"
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Ms Paula Gerber
Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
"The 4th R: human rights education"