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5. Centre reports 5.1.3 Public events Public lectures and events • Richard Clarke, Human Rights Officer in the Anti Discrimination Unit of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, Geneva; Andrea Durbach, Director, Australian Human Rights Centre; and Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission (delivered by Ihab Shalbak), ‘Can the UN Combat Racism? A preview of the Durban Review Conference’, 20 February • Justice Richard Goldstone, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ‘The Current State of International Criminal Justice’, 3 March • Professor Frank Garcia, Law Faculty Boston College, Director – Law & Justice in the Americas Program, ‘The Doha Round and its implications (success or failure) for developing countries’, 31 March • Ms Tina Minkowitz, Co-Chair, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and founder of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, ‘The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A New International Order for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry’, 3 June • ‘Human Rights Arts and Film Festival’, hosted by the Castan Centre at the Monash Cinema, Clayton, 6 August • Ms Rebiya Kadeer, Leader of the World Uighur Congress, ‘China’s Treatment of its Uighur Minority’, 7 August • Annual Lecture by Justice Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice and a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ‘Responding to Genocide’, 27 August • David Ritter, Indigenous rights lawyer, ‘Native Title for Sale’, 21 September • Tony Maniaty, journalist, author and consultant on the movie Balibo ‘War reporting, international humanitarian law and the legacy of Balibo’, 15 October 12 Faculty of Law • Nin Tomas, Auckland University, ‘The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Can Australians learn from Maori experiences or are we following completely separate paths?’, 29 October • Professor Hugh Corder, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town ‘A human rights roadmap: Has the constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights worked in South Africa?’, 4 November • ‘The Indigenous Birth Registration and Birth Certificates Symposium’, organised by Dr Paula Gerber and Ms Melissa Castan, 1 December • Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC, retired President of the International Court of Justice and a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ‘The ICJ in the contemporary world of human rights’, 8 December • Conferences 2009 Annual Castan Centre Conference: “The Changing Human Rights Landscape” Held on Friday 17th July 2009, State Library of Victoria. The Conference was fully subscribed for the first time, and was a great success. Speakers were: • The Hon. Robert McClelland, Commonwealth Attorney-General • Dr Ben Saul, Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney • The Hon. Justice Chris Maxwell, President of the Victorian Court of Appeal • Mr Alistair Pound, Barrister • The Hon Robert Hill, Former Australian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations • Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University • Professor Chris Sidoti, former Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Visiting Professor at Griffith University and University of Western Sydney • Professor Sarah Joseph, Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Workshops and Roundtables The Centre conducted a number of significant workshops and roundtables during 2009, each of which contributed to the development of law and policy on vital human rights issues. • Legal and Criminal Justice Response to Trafficking in Persons in Australia Workshop held in November 2009. The workshop was convened under the ARC Linkage Grant entitled ‘Australia’s Response to Trafficking in Women: A Model for the Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region?’, and was supported by the Attorney-General’s Department. The workshop was convened by the Castan Centre’s Dr Julie Debeljak and Professor Susan Kneebone. Speakers included Dr Anne Gallagher (Technical Director of the Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons Project), Ms Elizabeth Broderick (Sex Discrimination Commissioner), Commander Ramzi Jabbour (Manager Border Operations, Australian Federal Police), Mr Albert Moskowitz (Prosecutorial Adviser, ARTIP), Judge Michael McInerney (Victorian County Court) and Associate Professor Jennifer Burn (Director of the Anti-Slavery Project, UTS) • Symposium on Indigenous Birth Registration and Birth Certificates held in December 2009. The symposium discussed the experience of Indigenous Victorians relating to birth registration and birth certificates. Speakers included Elaine Terrick, who discussed the difficulty in obtaining identification as an Indigenous Victorian, Joel Orenstein (Solicitor), Glenn Bond (PLAN Australia), Frank Guivarra (CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service) and the Castan Centre’s Melissa Castan and Dr Paula Gerber. • Human Rights and Indigenous Archives Research Forum organised by the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI) in conjunction with the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies (CAIS) and the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, 7 August 2009
5.1.4 Conference papers and public speeches • J. Debeljak, ‘Australia’s Human Rights Report Card’, panel discussion at the Australian Lawyers Alliance Annual National Conference, 22 October, Sanctuary Cove • J. Debeljak, ‘The Legislative Framework for Combating Trafficking in Persons’ (Background Paper prepared for the Legal and Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Obstacles, Opportunities and Best Practice Workshop, Melbourne, 9 November 2009), 1-39 (with S. Kneebone, M. Cullen, F. Ransom) • P. Emerton, ‘Human Rights – A Longer History – Response to Historians’, Symposium on Human Rights: A Longer History, Melbourne, 9-10 October 2009 • P. Gerber, ‘Like Ripples from a Pebble someone Tosses in a Stream: Using Human Rights Education to Create a Human Rights Culture’, paper presented at the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission conference, Melbourne, March • P. Gerber, ‘Human Rights Education’, paper presented to the United Nations Youth Association conference, University of Melbourne, April. • S. Joseph, Speaker, Community Observance of the Opening of the Legal Year, Parliament House, Melbourne, 2 February • S. Joseph, Keynote Speaker, Induction of new members of the Monash Golden Key Society, 22 April • S. Joseph, Human Rights and Digital Story-telling, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 16 May • S. Joseph, Inaugural Human Rights Lecture, North Queensland Law Association conference 2009, Townsville, 29 May • S. Joseph, ‘A Federal Bill of Rights’, presented at the District and County Court Judges conference, Sydney, 25 June • S. Joseph, ‘Human Rights Events: The Year in Review’, Castan Centre Annual Conference ‘The Changing Human Rights Landscape’, State Library of Victoria, 17 July 2009. • S. Joseph, ‘Israel, the Occupied Territories and Human Rights’, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, 6 August 2009 • S. Joseph, ‘The Human Rights Council: Three Year Report Card’, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 23 October 2009 • S. Joseph, ‘Human Rights Council: Three Year Report’ – Interights, London, 28 October 2009 – VU (Free University), Amsterdam, 9 November 2009 – University of Nottingham, UK, 26 November 2009 • S. Joseph, ‘Corporations and Human Rights’, Herbert Smith Law Firm Breakfast Seminar, London, 12 November 2009 • S. Joseph, ‘Overview of Transnational Litigation’, Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Africa First, Cambridge University, 16 December 2009 • S. Kneebone, ‘Governance of Labour Migration in South East Asia’, presented to 6th Asian Law Institute conference, University of Hong Kong, 29 May • S. Kneebone, ‘Immigration Detention in Australia: Success or Smokescreen?’, address to the Immigration Legal Practitioners’ Association (UK), London, 10 June • S. Kneebone, ‘Governance of Labour Migration in South East Asia: Lessons for the Globe?’ presented to IASFM 12, Nicosia, Cyprus, 29 June • S. Kneebone, ‘Protection and victims of trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region’ presented to IASFM 12, Nicosia, Cyprus, 30 June • S. Kneebone, ‘International Standards for Labour Migrants’, keynote address presented to the Labour Trafficking Forum, University of Technology Sydney, July 2009. • S. Kneebone, ‘Refugee Futures: Perspectives from South East Asia’ presented to the Refugee Futures Conference, 10-12 September, Prato • S. Kneebone, ‘Refugees, Crime and Security: The Trafficking-refugee nexus’ presented to the Refugee Futures Conference, 10-12 September, Prato. • S. Kneebone, ‘ASEAN’s role in protecting the rights of migrant workers’, invited presentation to conference on Building Human Rights Institutions in the Asia-Pacific Region, Faculty of Law, Sydney University, 27 November 2009 • A. McBeth, ‘Balancing Competing Rights under the Victorian Charter’, presented to the Law Institute of Victoria ‘Human Rights Conference 2009’, 21 August 2009 • B. McSherry, ‘Agents of State Control: The Ethics of Risk Assessment Testimony for Preventive Detention Schemes’ Autumn Symposium: Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) Paper: 17 May 2009 • M. O’Sullivan, ‘Protection in the Context of Refugee Status’, delivered at the International Conference ‘Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing World’, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 23 September 2009 • M. O’Sullivan, ‘The Cessation Provisions of the EU Qualification Directive – Do they provide protection against persecution or “effective protection”?’, delivered at the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law, Spain, 1 October 2009 • T. Penovic, ‘Public International Law and Human Rights in Australia’ presentation to Australian Institute of International Affairs ACCESS Youth Network Forum ‘Inside the World of International Law, 30 September 2009 Annual Report 13
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