Human Rights
Info and resource: Human Rights Law Resource Centre Volume 43 - November 2009
This edition of the Bulletin, which is proudly sponsored by DLA Phillips Fox,includes:
- An opinion piece on the National Human Rights Consultation and a Human Rights Act for Australia by the Hon Catherine Branson QC, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission
- News about the election of Australian professor Ron McCallum as Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, business and human rights consultations in Geneva, and the release of human rights and corporate law reports
- Updates on National Charters of Rights, including a summary and analysis of the findings and recommendations of the National Human Rights Consultation Committee, and a discussion of the relevance of the committeeโs recommendations to business
- Updates on the Victorian Charter of Rights, including an analysis of recent Statements of Compatibility
- Victorian Charter case notes, including from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (the meaning of โpublic authorityโ, age discrimination and equal opportunity exemptions, disability and the right to housing, and freedom of information, policing and the public interest)
- Comparative law case noteson significant recent human rights decisions from the ACT (right to liberty and redress for unlawful detention, planning law and the right to a fair hearing) and the UK (right to respect for private life and equality in prison)
- Information about the Centreโs policy work, including in relation to complementary protection, national security legislation, the proposed compulsory acquisition of Alice Springs Town Camps, economic and social rights under the ACT Human Rights Act, and equal opportunity for women in the workplace
- Updates on the Centreโs casework and litigation, including in relation to a significant decision on the application of the Victorian Charter of Rights to non-government bodies
- Details of forthcoming human rights seminars and events, including a joint HRLRC/ACU conference on the Responsibility to Protect, an OP-CEDAW workshop run by PILCH and the AHRC, and a Liberty Victoria oration on โHuman Rights and the Churchโ
- Information about useful human rights resources
- Information about human rights jobs, including with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
- โIf I were Attorney-Generalโ by Professor Spencer Zifcak, Allan Myers Chair in Law and Director, Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Philip Lynch, Director, Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ltd
By: Human Rights Law Resource Centre
When: 7/2/2014
