Known Centers based in Australia
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- The University of New South Wales
Year Established: 2018
Short Historical Background
The Australian Human Rights Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute based in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW). It builds on the foundations of the Australian Human Rights Centre, established in 1986, to promote public awareness and academic scholarship about domestic and international human rights standards, laws and procedures.
The Institute also publishes the Australian Journal of Human Rights and the Human Rights Defender and hosts a number of seminars and events each year.
Objectives
The Australian Human Rights Institute is a unique centre of knowledge in Australia and the world, for bringing together medical, engineering and legal minds to find human rights solutions. In three priority areas – business and human rights, health and human rights and gender justice – it produces research and policy outcomes for people in Australia and the Asia Pacific who are most in need of innovative responses. It works in partnership with government, industry, and human rights defenders in the community, so its research makes an impact in the real world.
Programs
Research topics
Activities
The Institute’s Annual Public Lecture features an Australian or international speaker on a topic of contemporary human rights significance. It continues in the tradition of the AHRCentre, whose inaugural speaker in 2005 was international author David Malouf, who spoke on ‘Challenging Indifference’.
The Institute also hosts many smaller discussions, seminars and workshops throughout the year.
Publications
Address
The Australian Human Rights Institute
Faculty of Law
University of NSW
SYDNEY 2052 Australia
ph: (61 2) 9385 1803
e-mail: humanrights[a]unsw.edu.au
- Monash University
Year Established: 2000
Short Historical Background
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, based in the Faculty of Law at Monash University in Australia, is a research, education and policy centre which aims to create a more just world where human rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled to allow all people to flourish in freedom and dignity.
The Castan Centre has a long history of defending and promoting the realisation of human rights in Australia. The Castan Centre was founded in 2000 by a group of academics and human rights advocates and was named in honour of Australian barrister and human rights advocate, Ron Castan AM QC. Ron Castan played a leading role in some of Australia’s most important cases, including the Mabo case which led to the recognition of the land rights of First Nations peoples in Australian law for the first time.
Objectives
The Castan Centre works to influence law, policy, and practice; improve government officials’ understanding of human rights in Australia and elsewhere; and nurture the next generation of human rights leaders through our student programs. The Castan Centre also aims to engage the public in our work and foster public discourse on topical national and international human rights issues through public events.
Programs and Activities
Research areas
The Castan Centre’s primary research focus areas are:
· Indigenous peoples’ human rights
· Charters of rights
Student educational and practical experience programs
The Castan Centre runs a number of human rights education programs, ranging from traditional theoretical human rights courses to more practical opportunities to engage with human rights in a clinical setting.
The Castan Centre’s traditional human rights courses are conducted across Monash University’s undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees. They introductory human rights units, such as:
More specific human rights units are also offered, including:
· European Human Rights Law
· Business and Human Rights
· International Refugee Law and Human Rights
· Human Rights and Migration
The Castan Centre’s practical education offerings take the form of clinics and internships. The Castan Centre Human Rights Clinic engages students in practical human rights work with a range of human rights organisations to effect real-world change. Internships provide students with the opportunity to work with Castan Centre Academic Members, engaging in activities such as drafting submissions to advocate for human rights-compliant law reform. Finally, we also offer an Indigenous Internships which provides First Nations students with the opportunity to work on issues relating to Indigenous rights.
Public events
The Castan Centre holds public events throughout the year which vary depending on topical human rights issues in Australia and around the world. Our regular public events include:
Publications
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Address
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Faculty of Law
PO Box 12
Monash University
Victoria, Australia 3800
ph (61 3 )9905 3327
fax (61 3) 9905 5305
e-mail: castan.centre[a]law.monash.edu.au
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre
Year Established: 1999
Short Historical Background
CAPSTRANS is an Australian Research Council Key Centre for Teaching and Research and a joint venture of the University of Wollongong and the University of Newcastle. Although the boundaries of the Asia Pacific are contested, our research focus includes East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, the APEC economies and the countries of the Indian subcontinent.
Objective
CAPSTRANS aims to examine the rapid economic development and social transformation processes through innovative research by combining methods from a variety of disciplines, including political science, economics, management studies, sociology, anthropology, media studies, social history and language and literature studies
Programs
Research Program
CAPSTRANS concentrates on five interlinked research programs to achieve an understanding of social transformation in the Asia Pacific region:
- Mobility and Exclusion
- Globalization and International Development
- Australia in the Asia-Pacific
- Culture and Representation
- Globalization and Education
Teaching program
An important feature of the Centre's work is its contribution to postgraduate teaching programs in development and social change. Students enrolled in these coursework and research degrees benefit from their interactions with internationally recognized researchers. In turn, we see these students as a vital part of the Centre's intellectual activities.
Activities
CAPSTRANS is engaged in a series of collaborative research programs on how migration and other forms of mobility have led to the exclusion of some groups from development processes, and to limited opportunities to participate in political processes. Staff and students are currently working on projects that examine formulations of identity and citizenship along border zones intersect with gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in shaping experiences of mobility and exclusion; and processes of democratization, including human rights and women's rights activism.
Special Concerns
The Asia Pacific region offers unique insights into social transformation processes triggered by national and international development policies and their effects at local, regional and transnational levels. A full list of the current research projects is available on CAPSTRANS website.
Publications
Books
Address
Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
ph (612) 4221 3780
fax (612) 4228 6313
e-mail: capstrans[a]uow.edu.au
Year Established: 2003
Short Historical Background
The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University was established in January 2003 following the appointment of Professor Jim Ife as inaugural Haruhisa Handa Professor of Human Rights Education. This appointment was made as a result of the generosity of Dr Haruhisa Handa in endowing the Chair in Human Rights Education, the first such chair in an Australian university.
The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin is an independent, inter and multi-disciplinary centre for local, national and international academic research, postgraduate teaching, critical scholarship and advocacy on human rights. Since 2003 the Centre has become well known for its commitment to understanding, analysing, promoting and responding to contemporary human rights issues and challenges. The Centre offers a dynamic and collaborative culture of learning and researching together with a practitioner-oriented and theoretically enriched approach to human rights. For more information, see humanrights.curtin.edu.au/about/history-and-philosophy
Objectives
The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University is a centre for research, postgraduate teaching, critical scholarship and advocacy on human rights. The Centre leads ethical scholarship, enabling individual agency and community engagement on human rights and social justice through the study and promotion of human rights at local, national and international levels.
Programs
The Centre provides a focal point for research, teaching and scholarly activity in the area of human rights education. In this context, education is understood in its broadest sense, including community education, raising awareness, promoting understanding and debate around human rights issues, and implementing human rights principles in a range of occupations, as well as education in formal settings of schools and universities.
The Centre offers the following courses at the Curtin Perth campus or fully online:
For more information, see humanrights.curtin.edu.au/courses and courses.curtin.edu.au/course_overview/curtin-online/micro-masters-human-rights
The Centre for Human Rights Education has a flourishing higher degree by research program. Our students come from across the globe and are currently involved in a diverse range of human rights research projects. Students enrolled in the PhD or MPhil programs are well supported with strong supervisors who have extensive expertise in the area. For more information, see humanrights.curtin.edu.au/research/degrees.
Activities
As well as the courses offered through the Centre, we organise public events around human rights issues, often in partnership with community groups. We also work in close collaboration with community groups to strengthen the foundations of our research and advocacy. For more information, see humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events
Special concerns
The Centre currently engages in high impact research related to:
Publications
To view all the publications written by Centre staff and adjuncts, please see our publications by author on our website: humanrights.curtin.edu.au/research/publications
Address
Centre for Human Rights Education
Curtin University
GPO Box U1987
PERTH WA 6845
ph (61-8) 9266 7186
e-mail: Baden.Offord[a]curtin.edu.au
Year Established: 1978
Short Historical Background
The Human Rights Council of Australia Inc. is a private non-governmental organization which promotes understanding of and respect for human rights for all persons without discrimination through adherence to the International Bill of Rights, and other human rights instruments, internationally and within Australia.
The Council was established in 1978 and for many years, under the leadership of James Dunn, has been an important link between the Australian human rights movement and human rights activists in other parts of the world. The Council is affiliated with the International League of Human Rights and has Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC.
The Human Rights Council of Australia Inc is incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984 (N.S.W.) and is a non-profit organization.
Objective
The Council aims
Programs and Activities
The Council is active in many fields and endeavors concerning the promotion of human rights in Australia and throughout the world. It has pioneered the Rights Way to Development and been instrumental in raising awareness on issues such as landmines and sport and human rights.
The Council engages in the following activities:
Special Concerns
The Council has special focus on the following:
Publications
Address
Human Rights Council of Australia, Inc.
PO Box 1071
North Sydney NSW 2059 Australia
ph 612) 9957 5200
fax (612) 9957 4063
e-mail: pearles[a]optusnet.com.au
Year Established: 2006
Short Historical Background
The Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) is an independent, notfor- profit, non-governmental organization. Established in 2006, it works in coalition with key partners, including community organizations, law firms and barristers, academics and experts, and international and domestic human rights organizations.
Over the last six years, HRLC has established constitutional protection of the right to vote, improved access to healthcare for prisoners, provided human rights training to over 15,000 people and held Australia to account for its human rights obligations on the international stage.
Objective
HRLC is dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights in Australia and through Australian foreign policy.
Programs
Over the next five years, the HRLC will focus on:
Activities
HRLC seeks to achieve its aims through a strategic combination of evidence-based advocacy, research, litigation and education. We work in coalition with key partners, including community organizations, law firms and barristers, academics and experts, and international and domestic human rights organizations.
Publications
HRLC produces a monthly bulletin, Rights Agenda. (You can subscribe to the bulletin at www.hrlc.org.au/monthly-bulletin) All of the HRLC’s resources, publications and submissions are posted online and available at www.hrlc.org.au.
Address
Human Rights Law Centre Ltd (HRLC)
Level 17, 461 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
ph (61 3) 8636 4450
fax (61 3) 8636 4455
www.hrlc.org.au
Year Established: 1987
Short Historical Background
The Jumbunna Aboriginal Education Centre was first established in 1987 after persistent lobbying by Aboriginal students, notably Burruga Gutya (Ken Canning) and Frances Peters. Before Jumbunna was established Ken and Frances were the only Aboriginal students enrolled at the then NSW Institute of Technology. After just one year of operation the center's student enrolments increased to thirty. By 1993, two hundred seventy-five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were enrolled at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Initially Jumbunna was set up to provide cultural and academic support, tutorial assistance and counselling, as well as to address other student needs. Jumbunna has evolved over the years, and in 2001 was structured as an Indigenous House of Learning that supports students, promotes Australian Indigenous culture, history and philosophy across the university, and nurtures and develops Indigenous research and Indigenous researchers. Today, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning provides cultural and academic support for Australian Indigenous students studying at UTS, and undertakes research into matters of significance to Indigenous communities.
Objectives
Jumbunna aims
Program
UTS has recently implemented a new Indigenous and Employment Policy, which takes a whole-of-university approach,
aligning UTS with national Indigenous higher education objectives and internationally recognized principles. This policy ensures that opportunities are created for all UTS students to gain knowledge of Indigenous Australia and embeds acts of Indigenous recognition and partnership within the public and ceremonial life of UTS. Two UTS-wide integrated Indigenous strategies have been put in place in support of this new policy: the Indigenous Education and Employment Strategy (encompassing student recruitment, support services, curriculum issues and research) and the Wingara Indigenous Employment Strategy. Both strategies set key objectives over a multi-year period and identify prominent staff across UTS who are responsible for their implementation, achievement and reporting. Senior staff from across UTS have partnered with Indigenous academic and non-academic staff to consolidate their expertise into five specialist sub-committees. These sub-committees report to an overarching Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Strategies Committee, which in turn is guided by a newly created Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Advisory Committee composed of external Indigenous community leaders and specialists. We believe this whole-of-university approach is one of the most comprehensive in the country.
Jumbunna has an outstanding and internationally recognized record of research output and Indigenous advocacy. Jumbunna aims to produce the highest quality research on Indigenous legal and policy issues and to develop highly skilled Indigenous researchers. Our research team is one of the few in the country that engages in inquiry and social advocacy based on conversations with the community. We ensure that our research outputs are published in accessible formats, which benefit the communities they were designed to support. Ours is the only Indigenous research team in Australia that champions issues through our active litigation arm.
Publications
Journals
Address
Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
University of Technology Sydney
Tower Building, Level 17, No. 1 Broadway,
Broadway
PO Box 123, NSW 2007 Australia
ph (61-2) 95141902
Toll Free Number: 1800 064 312
fax (61-2) 95141894
e-mail: atsirecruitment[a]uts.edu.au
www.jumbunna.uts.edu.au/index.html
www.uts.edu.au/future-students/indigenous
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