WA:           WA MOVIE FUNDRAISER

6pm for a 6:45pm viewing

Thursday 19 June 2008

The WA Fundraiser is coming up on the 19th June and this year ALHR is screening 'Unfinished Sky'.

Written and directed by Peter Duncan, Unfinished Sky is a powerful, poetic and sensual love story that peels away layers of hurt and mistrust to reveal the beauty of freedom, hope and choice.

See flyer for further details of 'Unfinished Sky'

Cinema Paradiso

164 James Street, Northbridge

Tickets $20 each

Refreshments provided

WA Convenor for  RSVP and payment details

QLD:           QUEENSLAND MEMBERS MEETING

TBA

Queensland Members of ALHR are welcome to the monthly meeting of ALHR.  The lecture set out below will be held at this meeting.

NSW:           NEW SOUTH WALES MEMBERS MEETING

TBA

New South Wales Members of ALHR are welcome to the members meeting. 

WA:           WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEMBERS MEETING

TBA

QLD:  POST-CONFLICT RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW VIOLATIONS: THE CASE OF EAST TIMOR

18 June 2008

Guest Speaker: Megan Hirst

Megan Hirst studied law and history at the University of Queensland and then completed an LLM in International Law at Cambridge University. She has worked in East Timor as a legal adviser in the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation and for the Judicial System Monitoring Program, and is now a Program Associate for the International Centre for Transitional Justice in Dili. She has also worked as a Legal System Monitor for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo.

See flyer for further details

Mallesons Stephen Jaques

Level 30 Waterfront Place

1 Eagle Street

Brisbane

Free

Seats limited, RSVP ASAP

NSW:  Protecting Human Rights: Train-the-Trainer Workshop

13 June 2008

29 August 2008

This one-day workshop will equip you with knowledge and skills to conduct human rights training in your network, group, organisation or sector. Many of the rights we take for granted have no protection under Australian law. Human rights are a way of promoting social justice for disadvantaged people. This training will be useful for anyone who is interested in understanding and speaking out about human rights.

See flyer for further details and registration.

Sydney CBD

$80 inc GST. Course fee includes materials, morning and afternoon tea and a ertificate of attendance.

RSVP asap with booking form

VIC:  The Right to Adequate Housing in the Global South

5:45 for 6:00-7:45pm

23 June 2008

Balakrishnan Rajagopal is the Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and is currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, the International Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the International Rights Advocates. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC, the Madras Institute of Development Studies and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, and a Visiting Professor at the
UN University for Peace.

See flyer for further details

Blake Dawson

Level 39

101 Collins St

Melbourne

$20 / $10 concession

RSVP 17 June 2008 with booking form

VIC:  National Indigenous Legal Conference

12-13 September 2008

THE 2008 NATIONAL INDIGENOUS LEGAL CONFERENCE will bring
together lawyers, judges, barristers, solicitors, policy makers, service
providers, researchers, Community Elders and many other stakeholders.

In particular, the Conference will focus on topical issues such as Native
Title, the Stolen Generations, Indigenous issues at the United Nations,
and the Northern Territory Intervention.

This conference will be of particular interest and relevance to lawyers,
law students, barristers, solicitors, judges, Indigenous community
workers, Indigenous Community Elders, community legal centres,
local government, Aboriginal legal services, land councils, native title
representative bodies, academics and public servants.

See brochure for further details

Level 17

RACV Club

501 Bourke St

Melbourne

See Registration form

NSW:  2nd Intensive Course on Health, Development and Human Rights

8-12 December 2008

New opportunities and risks associated with human development, widening gaps between health needs of particularly vulnerable populations and responses to these needs, and widespread movements of people through labour and forced migration as a consequence of economic pressure, climate change, conflicts and natural disasters, are key issues for the new millennium. The interactions between health, development and human rights are becoming increasingly clear: the growing recognition of their reciprocal relationships can help shape health and development policies, strategies and programs for the future. This evolution calls for reinforced education, training and research efforts. The learning objectives of this intensive course are to:

1. Define underlying principles and prominent approaches applied to each of the fields of health, development and human rights;
2. Describe the reciprocal interaction between health, development and human rights and how these linkages can be analysed and applied in practice in one or more selected areas pertinent to participants interests;
3. Illustrate how international mechanisms and procedures can be applied to health, development and human rights and how they can be accessed;
4. Identify key actions and research that is needed to further the synergy between health, development and human rights.

See flyer for further details and registration.

University of New South Wales

See flyer for details of cost

Registration form