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Postgraduate Human Rights Seminar Series

13 November 2008 Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum: No 4 Semester 2

“Human Rights: Selectivity in the Anthropology Machine” - Adam Broinowski, School of Historical Studies

16 October 2008 Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum: No 3 Semester 2

“The Human Right to Self-Determination” - Adam Hyde-Knight, Political Science

24 April 2008 - Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 2

Topic: ‘Human Rights to Love and Promises’ - Philippa Smales

March 20 2008 - Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 1 - Human Rights and Health

Topics:

"The Art of Understanding People With Epilepsy" - Jim Chambliss

"Mental Illness or Mental Difference in Fiction" - Angelina Mirabito

15 November 2007: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 5: Thinking About Human Rights

Topics:

Foundations for Group Rights - Suzy Killmister

The Fourth R: Why Human Rights Education must be a National Imperative - Faith Hill

18 October 2007: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 4: Law and Human Rights

Topics:

A Human Rights Approach to Law and Decision-Making on Trade and Access to Essential Medicines: A Critical Perspective - Clancy Kelly

The Interplay Between Human Rights Law and Customary International Humanitarian Law in Non-International Armed Conflict - Eloisa Newalsing

20 September 2007: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 3: The Human Rights of Refugees

Topics:

Spoiling Movi's River: Towards Recognition of Persucutory Environmental Harm within the Meaning of the Refugee Convention - Carly Marcs

The Psychological Impact of Torture on Refugees - Maritza Thompson

23 August 2007: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 2: Discourses of Human Rights

Topics:

Media Discourses Surrounding Refugees and Migration - Mugdha Rai

Rights, Terror and their Alternatives - Tallace Bissett

26 July 2007: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum - Session 1: Human Rights in Australia

Topics:

Rights So Far? The Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, the Implementation of Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and the Development of Rights and Disability Support Services in Victoria So Far - Raelene West

'English is the Only Language to be Spoken Here': Implications for Teacher Education of Indigenous Teachers from Remote Northern Territory Communities - Leon J. White

Program: Postgraduate Human Rights Discussion Forum Program

2 April 2008 Lunchtime Lecture: The current situation in Pakistan

The Human Rights Forum's International visitor for 2008 was the then Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, Hina Jilani. Ms Jilani is from Pakistan and delivered a very insightful and compelling analysis of the current political situation in that country.

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