Centre Events

Seminar: Community Justice and Policing in Timor-Leste 26/6/09

Speakers include: Silas Everett, Representative, The Asia Foundation, Timor-Leste and Thomas Parks, Regional Conflict and Governance Advisor, The Asia Foundation

Time: 2:30 - 4:00
Location: Seminar Room 1.13 Ground floor Coombs Extension Building

Seminar:'Addressing Gender Health Inequalities in Timor-Leste: Governance Reform and The Right to Health '23/7/09

Ms Clíonadh O'Keeffe, PhD Candidate, Global Women's Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Tuesday 28 July, 12 noon, Room 1.04 Coombs Extension Building.
Click here for abstract.

Seminar: ‘The Role of Legislation and Courts in Promoting Socio-Economic Rights’ 24/7/09

Speakers: Justice Yvonne Mokgoro of the South African Constitutional Court and Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights Commissioner

Friday 24 July 2009 at 1-2pm

Seminar Room 1.03, Ground Floor, Hedley Bull Centre, ANU

RSVP by Mon 20 July 2009 to:acthra@anu.edu.au
Enquiries: (02) 612 57103

2009 Protecting Human Rights Conference 2/10/09

To be held at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney. Click here for further details.

Feminist Internationalism:Celebrating feminist engagement with international law and politics 23/11/09 - 24/11/09

Centre for International Governance and Justice Workshop

APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre at The Australian National University

More information can be found here.

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News

Inside Story:Grand Plans on Social Policy 14/5/09

Two major reports on violence against women and children show a growing level of commitment by the federal government. Now it’s time to take the next steps, writes Susan Harris Rimmer. Click here to read the piece in Inside Story.

Doctoral candidate Gabrielle Simm interviewed in the ANU Reporter 12/5/09

Peacekeeping authorities place blanket bans on sexual conduct between soldiers and locals, but are these prohibitions effective? Organisations like the UN might need to face up to human nature and the complex reality of sex and conflict. Click here for full text.

Hilary Charlesworth and Susan Harris Rimmer on why Australia should engage with the Durban Review Conference 17/4/09

Click here to read their piece in Australian Policy Online.

Jo Ford's opinion piece in the Johannesburg Weekender 11/4/09

In his piece Jo writes about African states destroying their credibility by pouring scorn on international institutions they helped create. Click here for the article.

Have your say! - Contact us if you have been part of a peacekeeping operation.

Recent Publications

B. Bowden, H. Charlesworth & J. Farrall (eds.), The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). [Pdf excerpt available] More information available at Cambridge University Press

M.L Burgis Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009) More information available at Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

J. Braithwaite Restorative Justice for Banks Through Negative Licensing CIGJ Issues Paper No.9

B.D'Costa & J.Ford Terminology Matters: Statebuilding, Nationbuilding and Peacebuilding CIGJ Issues Paper No.6

H. Charlesworth 2009, ' Women's Human Rights in the State-Rebuilding Process' in Facets and Practices of State-Building, eds Julia Raue & Patrick Sutter Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, pp 249-262

S. Harris Rimmer 'Reconceiving Refugees and Internationally Displaced Persons as Transitional Justice Actors' CIGJ Issues Paper No.8

J. Ford, 'Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe: Some Reflections on the Longer Term role of the UN and International Actors' CIGJ Issues Paper No. 7

J. Ford, M. du Plessis, 2009, ‘Transitional Justice: A Truth Commission forZimbabwe?', International & Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 58, no.1, pp 73-117.

B. Wilson, 'Timor-Leste: the curious case of the fake policemen', East Timor Law Journal, 2009, no 2.

B. Wilson, 'Smoke and Mirrors: institutionalising Fragility in the Policia Nacional Timor-Leste,' in Democratic governance in Timor-Leste: reconciling the local and national,' ed. D. Mearns, 2008

B. D'Costa, 'Strangers within our Borders: Human In(security) in South Asia,' CIGJ Issues Paper No. 5

A. Byrnes, H. Charlesworth & G. McKinnon, Bills of Rights in Australia: history, politics and law, 2008

H. Charlesworth, 'International Law: A view from the Antipodes,' in Regards d'une génération sur le Droit International, ed. E. Jouannet, H. Ruiz Fabri & J-M. Sorel, 2008

M. Burgis, Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes, ANU PhD Thesis

J. Braithwaite, V. Braithwaite & L. Dunn, Peacebuilding Compared Working Paper No. 1- Papua and Indonesia
July 2008

Associated Events

The Castan Centre 2009 Annual Conference: The Changing Human Rights Landscape.

Click here for details.

17 July 2009 State Library Melbourne.

Gaza: Morality,Law & Politics: Public Lecture Series 10-22 July

A free public lecture series run by Australian Catholic University’s (ACU National) School of Philosophy will feature some of Australia’s biggest names in philosophy, international law, Jewish affairs and anthropology- tackling morality, law and politics in Gaza.

Centre Director Hilary Charlesworth will be speaking on Wednesday 24 June about Women & War.

Click here for more information.

Media

Sue Harris Rimmer interviewed on ABC Radio National Program: Afghan President says new Sharia Law is under review.
6 April 2009.

Sue Harris Rimmer interviewed for Inter Press Service story on NSW covert search warrants.
25 March 2009.

Bu Wilson talks to Connect Asia on Radio Australia about the implications of the recent decision by East Timor's Court of Appeal.
11 Feb 2009.

Sue Harris Rimmer with Eve Lester write in ABC Unleashed about Australia's Guantanamo Dilemma.
5 February 2009.

Hilary Charlesworth speaks to Jeremy Gilling from the Campus Review Weekly about the growing number of students studing international law and the reasons behind the increase. 3 Feb 2009.

Hilary Charlesworth's Opinion Editorial 'Debate, not a boycott, needed to address racism' published in The Canberra Times.
2 Feb 2009.

Sue Harris-Rimmer has an opinion editorial in the Canberra Times on the national human rights consultation, 27 Jan 2009.

Susan Harris-Rimmer's Opinion Editorial 'Clear case for reform' published in The Canberra Times, 27 Dec 2008.