Events
Current Events
Workshop on protecting economic, social and cultural rights
Who: Professor Sandra Liebenberg, the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
When: February 2010 (date TBA)
Where: TBA
Further information: TBA
Past Events
ANU public seminar: Monitoring implementation of economic, social and cultural rights – the South African experience
Who: Cameron Jacobs, Senior Researcher with the South African Human Rights Commission
When: Monday 19 October 2009, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Where: Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre, ANU
RSVP: Not required
Further information: About the speaker
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Public seminar hosted by the ACT Human Rights Commission, in conjunction with ACT Shelter and ACTCOSS
"Monitoring implementation of economic, social and cultural rights – the South African experience"
Who: Cameron Jacobs, Senior Researcher with the South African Human Rights Commission
When: Tuesday 20 October 2009, 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Where: Reception Room, ACT Legislative Assembly. (Light refreshments will be available)
RSVP: Please email human.rights@act.gov.au by Friday 16 October with your name; contact details; and accessibility requirements. Please place the phrase ’20 October’ in the subject line of your email. A hearing loop will be available on request.
Further information: Flyer
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Closed session workshop on the right to adequate housing
Keynote speaker: Cameron Jacobs, Senior Researcher with the South African Human Rights Commission
When: Wednesday 21 October 2009, 11am-2pm
Where: Room 1.04, Coombs Extension Building, ANU
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Workshop on Measuring Human Rights Progress
Who: Professor Mike Salvaris (RMIT)
When: Friday 3 April 2009, 12-4pm
Where: Room 1.03, Hedley Bull Centre, ANU
Slideshow presentation
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Roundtable on Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Keynote speaker: Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, South African Constitutional Court
When: Thursday 23 July 2009, 4.30-6pm
Where: Room 1.04, Coombs Extension Building, ANU
Biography: Justice Yvonne Mokgoro has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since its establishment in 1994. She has written some of the Court’s major ESCR judgements in recent years, including Khosa and Others v Minister of Social Development [2004] ACC 11, a landmark decision which extended the right of access to social security to permanent residents. Justice Mokgoro is also Chair of the South African Law Reform Commission and has been President of Africa Legal Aid, a non-governmental organisation which provides legal aid and human rights education throughout Africa. She is a Professor of Law and a recipient of many honours, including the Women's Law and Public Law Fellowship by Georgetown University Law Centre, the Human Rights Award by the Black Lawyers Association, the Legal Profession's Woman Achiever Award by the Centre for Human Rights and the Kate Stoneman Democracy Award. Her areas of interest and expertise include women's rights, children's rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
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Public Seminar: ‘The Role of Legislation and Courts in Promoting Socio-Economic Rights – the South African experience’
Who: Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, South African Constitutional Court, with Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights Commissioner, providing comments on the ACT context.When: Friday 24 July 2009, 1-2pm
Where: Room 1.03, Hedley Bull Centre, ANU
Click here to listen to the seminar.
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Work in Progress seminar: ‘Adjudicating economic, social and cultural rights’
Who: Lucy Maxwell (2008-09 Summer Scholar, RegNet)
When: Thursday 1 October 2009, 2-3pm
Where: Room 1.13 Coombs Extension Building, ANU
Abstract:
Socio-economic rights ... politicise justice and judicialise politics. They allow the courts, by enforcing socio-economic rights, to stray onto the political terrain, at the expense of the democratic process.
Those who advocate that economic, social and cultural rights should be judicially enforceable in Australia rely on both the jurisprudence on ESC rights from South Africa and current practices of adjudication in Australia. This paper critically examines each of these premises, in investigating whether and to what extent the adjudication of ESC rights is a proper role for the Australian judiciary.
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Protecting Human Rights Conference 2009
When: Friday 2 October 2009, 8.30am - 5.00pm
Where: Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney CBD
Further information: Protecting Human Rights Conference 2009 flyer
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