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Human Rights Bulletin Board
Charlie Perkins Scholarships to send Indigenous Australians to Oxford
The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education announced on 22 October that the Government will provide $132,000 to the Charlie Perkins Trust for Children and Students which will give two talented Indigenous Australians the opportunity to study at the University of Oxford for up to three years. Further information can be found at www.perkinstrust.comau/scholarships.html
PILCH Employment Opportunity - Executive Director
The role would encompass reporting to the Board and leading a team of dynamic and committee staff, the Executive Director will oversee the implementation of a new and ambitious strategic plan that aims to improve responses to legal need, advocate for systemic reform in the access to justice sector, develop core organisational infrastructure and continue to engage in collaborative partnerships with stakeholders. Written applications are due by 5 November. Further details available at http://www.pilch.org.au/jobs/.
Right Now Radio a human rights radio program
This program will be broadcast live on Melbourne’s 3CR 855AM at 6pm every Thursday. Right Now Radio is an initiative of Right Now, the non-profit human rights law media organisation which also publishes Right Now Magazine.
Victorian Council of Civil Liberties membership
Julian Burnside QC, President, Liberty Victoria invites you to become a member of the organisation, especially (but not exclusively) the under 35s. Liberty Victoria were the organisation that stood up and took legal action on behalf of the Tampa asylum seekers in 2001. Membership form available at -www.libertyvictoria.org.au.
NOVEMBER 2009
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Women's Autonomy - Religion on Trial
Hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Speaker: Professor Frances Raday, Lieberman Chair in Labour Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Expert Member for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (2001-2003).
Venue: Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Date: 19 November
Time: 5.30 pm (refreshments provided)
RSVP: law-iilah@unimelb.edu.au or tel 8344 6589
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Limiting Rights to Protect Rights?
Public lecture hosted by Banksia Gardens Community Centre
Speakers: Dr Helen Szoke, Commissioner, Victorian Equality Opportunity & Human Rights Commission; Brian Walters SC, Liberty Victoria; and Mohammed El-Leissy, Islamic Council of Victoria
Venue: Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows
Date: 19 November
Time: 5.30 pm to 8.00 pm (Dinner provided)
RSVP: joanna@banksiagardens.org.au
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An Australian Human Rights Act: Essential or Extraneous?
A public forum hosted by NSW Fabians, discussing the benefits and dangers of implementing a human rights act in Australia.
Speakers: Julian Leeser, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre and Co-Editor of "Don't Leave Us with the Bill"; Edward Santow, Director, Charter of Human Rights Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law; and David McKnight, Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
Venue: NSW Parliament, Theatrette (Enter via Macquarie Street, Sydney)
Date: 25 November
Time: 6.30 pm
Free public forum
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The Responsibility to Protect: Prevention and Intervention in response to Mass Atrocity Crimes
Hosted by the Human Rights Law Resource Centre and the Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University
Speakers: The Hon Gareth Evans AO AC; the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AO AC; the Hon Bob McMullan MP; Prof Ramesh Thakur, Canadian Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty; Prof Alex Bellamy, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; Prof Joseph Camilleri, Prof Spencer Zifcak and Phoebe Wynne-Pope.
Venue: Christ Lecture Theatre, Australian Catholic University, 17 Young Street, Fitzroy
Date: 27-28 November
Further details: http://www.acu.edu.au/acu_national/the_university/conferences/r2p/
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International Conference on Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building
Date: 27 November (8.30 am to 5.30 pm) and 28 Novwember (9 am to 1 pm)
Venue: Building F10, Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney
Details available at - http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/law/457.html?eventid=4142
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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges Conference
Hosted by the Australian Council for International Development and LaTrobe University in partnership with AusAID
Date: 30 November and 1 December
Venue: La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus
Further details: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humansecurity/MDGconference.html
DECEMBER 2009
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Asia Pacific Breakthrough: The Women, Faith and Development Summit to End Global Poverty
Speakers: Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, General Secretary, World YWCA; Sister Joan Chittister OSB of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, New York; The Hon Dame Carol Kidu, CBE, MP, Minister for Community Decelopment and Religion and Sports, Papua New Guinea; Rev Tim Costello, Executive Director, World Vision.
Venue: Federation Square
Date: 2-3 December
Further details: www.breakthrough2009.com.au
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Legality, Legitimacy & The United Nations
Public lecture hosted by the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne
Speaker: Professor Ramesh Thakur, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Lecture Theatre G08, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Date: 7 December
Time: 6pm for 6.30 pm
Bookings are essential for this event
RSVP: law-apcml@unimelb.edu.au or tel 8344 4775
Further details: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=4B1D1CB1-B0D0-AB80-E28E8C05438EC230&DiaryID=4491
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Practical self-determination: The right(s) approach to addressing the unfinished business
9th Human Rights Oration hosted by Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
Speaker: Muriel Bamblett, CEO, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
Venue: ZINC at Federation Square, Melbourne
Date: 10 December
Time: 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm (followed by a light lunch)
RSVP: liam.fitzgerald@veohrc.vic.gov.au or tel 03 9281 7167
Further details: http://www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/oration/
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Nobel Peace Prize Breakfast: Peace Through Justice
Hosted by the Australia Tibet Council and Amnesty International on the 20th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's Nobel Peace Prize
Speakers:
His Holiness The Dalai Lama who will speak about the importance of justice in the lasting resolution of conflict. The event will also highlight Amnesty International's Demand Dignity campaign, calling for an end to the human rights violations that keep people poor.
Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, who will discuss poverty within a framework of human rights and justice.
Venue: Melbourne Convention Centre South Wharf, Melbourne
Date: 10 December
Time: 8 am to 10.30 am
Tickets: $125 / $145
Call 02 9283 3466 for tickets and more details or visit www.atc.org.au/peace-through-justice
MARCH 2010
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