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Day 4 – Part 2 – Business, Human Rights and a Well-Suited Mountain Trek Protest                [Not the photo caption: 2:34pm. Café on Rue des Vermont. 120m from Palais Des Nations main entrance]. Jose Parra is a human rights consultant based in Geneva and has over 15 years of professional experience. He has worked … Read More >>

DAY 4 (Part 1) – UPR Post-Mortem NGO Round-table @ Aus Mission HQ Woken up at 4:30am by a phone call from Michael McKenna at The Australian but not in relation to the UPR in relation to our Burragubba judicial review case in Federal Court being heard on 23 – 24 November against the Adani … Read More >>

Academics and professionals from medical and legal fields watched “Hard to Believe”—a documentary-style film exploring unethical organ harvesting in China, at N.S.W. Parliament House in Sydney on October 28.  The screening was supported by the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and followed by a Q&A session facilitated by N.S.W. Greens MP David Shoebridge. Nathan Kennedy, ALHR’s … Read More >>

DAY 3 – Part 3 – The BIG Game – Australia in the Hot Seat Finally, the moment had arrived, Australia at the “World Cup of Human Rights”. I entered the most courteous global Colosseum  and assumed my position back in the press gallery after taking another requisite selfie with Jose in the main chamber … Read More >>

DAY 3 – PART 2 – AMNESTY LUNCH PANEL ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES I bumped into President Gillian Triggs at the lunch set up outside Room XXII where the event as to be held. We had a great catch up about the engagement the AHRC had had from about 55 diplomatic missions who were seriously concerned … Read More >>

DAY 3 – PART 1: AN ASTUTE AUSTRIAN MORNING Woke up in the dark at 5:45am and had a quick breakfast with my host family who were off skiing for the day. It was a brisk morning so I joined the chill with a quick hop, step and jump along the glorious morning lake charmer … Read More >>

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is excited to present an exclusive, preview screening of Joshua Oppenheimer’s award-winning, must-see documentary The Look of Silence at Cinema Nova on Wednesday, 25 November at 7pm. The film screening will raise funds towards HRAFF’s 2016 festival. For more information click here. We’d love your help promoting the fundraiser screening of this … Read More >>

The Indigenous Law Centre, together with the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, are pleased to announce an exciting panel event and book discussion on the topic of Native Title and Indigenous Empowerment. The panel will include Jason Behrendt, one of Australia’s leading native title and land rights lawyers, and Dr Valerie Cooms, whose … Read More >>

To commemorate the beginning of the CLC movement, we are hosting events over two days. These include: – An evening cocktail party on Thursday 19 November (after the one-day quarterlies).… – The CLC NSW 40-year oration in the morning of Friday 20 November. – The CLC talent show in the afternoon of Friday 20 November. For more information … Read More >>

DAY 2: DUBAI – GENEVA During the flight to Geneva I got thinking and wrote the reflections below (in the next post) on the Australian Government’s Report for its Second Universal Periodic Review in the hope to stimulate some discussion on this blog. Flying in over Lake Geneva, the Swiss Alps featuring the magnificence of … Read More >>

 DAY 1: Sat 7 Nov 2015 – BRISBANE TO DUBAI Okay. Human writes human rights. Bag packed. Passport. Didn’t miss plane. Sure I turned the iron off…well it turns itself off anyways…:-) Excited to be off on a last minute mission to Geneva for Australia’s Second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights … Read More >>