Human Rights 2007 The Year in Review
The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference
30 Friday November 2007
The CUB Malthouse, Southbank, Melbourne
'Human Rights and the Environment'
Mr Martin Wagner
Managing Attorney, Earthjustice
a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow
‘The right to be cold: Global warming, human rights' (pdf, 249kb)
Mr Cam Walker
Campaigns Co-ordinator, Friends of the Earth
"Climate refugees: The human face of climate change"
Ms Rowena Cantley-Smith
Law Faculty, Monash University
'Energy, human rights and the environment: An irreconcilable trinity?'
Mr Kwame Mfodwo
Law Faculty, Monash University
`Treaty of Waitangi Claims by Iwi and Tangata Whenua - The environmental, economic, cultural and human rights dimension'
Professor John Langmore
Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
‘An environmental and a man-made disaster: The Darfur crisis'
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Professor Tony McMichael
National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University
"The Right to the Healthy Environment: Advancing the Discourse from Individual to Population, from Reductionist to Ecological"
Professor Judy Atkinson
Head of College, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
‘Cyclone caterpillar: Aboriginal kids, a National Emergency, and the rights of the child'
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Mr Phil Lynch
Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
'Vickie Roach v The Commonwealth: Human Rights and Representative Democracy'