At the recent Contemporary Drug Problems conference in Paris, three members of the GLaD research team gave papers speaking to the theme of ‘Embracing Trouble’.
GLaD researchers, together with colleagues from the Drugs, Gender and Sexuality Program and elsewhere, have developed a submission to a national human rights inquiry.
If human rights are an effective framework for the prevention of punitive approaches towards drugs, why haven’t they prevented them to date? The latest article from the GLaD team addresses this question.
As part of our drugs and human rights project, GLaD researcher Sean Mulcahy is heading to Europe to present at conferences in London, Sheffield and Verona.
In our latest article, we explore how alcohol and other drugs issues are considered in human rights scrutiny processes in Australian parliaments.
GLaD program lead Kate Seear and project officer Dion Kagan presented recent findings at The Australian Sociological Association conference earlier this month.
Each year on the 10th of December, the United Nations celebrates International Human Rights Day. In 2022, the theme for the day is ‘Dignity, freedom and justice
Our article, ‘On tables, doors and listening spaces: Parliamentary human rights scrutiny and engagement of others’, is published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights.
GLaD Program researcher, Dr Sean Mulcahy, recently visited the University of Warwick after securing a Visiting Research Fellowship
In the lead up to International Overdose Awareness Day, we highlight some of the policy reforms in the state of Victoria to tackle overdose
GLaD project officer Sean Mulcahy recently presented a paper co-authored with project lead Kate Seear at the Global Meeting on Law and Society in Lisbon.
Our new paper explores how this debate on roadside drug testing in the ACT unfolded.
Global discussion about human rights in drug policy reform is increasing. There are several studies that advocate for the need for human rights in drug
We are excited to announce the publication of the first article from the ARC-funded project, ‘A world-first “post-human rights” framework for drug policy’. Co-authored by
Each year, the United Nations celebrates two important, interconnected days on its international calendar. The 10th of December marks International Human Rights Day. In 2021,
GLaD program lead Kate Seear recently joined colleagues from around Australia for a special panel event to mark the launch of the inaugural Global Drug
GLaD program lead Kate Seear and project officer Sean Mulcahy recently presented a paper at the After Rights? Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics Workshop.
A Victorian parliamentary committee recently released a report detailing the findings and recommendations from a major inquiry into the use of cannabis in Victoria. GLaD program lead Associate Professor Kate Seear was one of several people to make a submission to the inquiry.
Each year, on the 31st of August, people around the world come together to mark International Overdose Awareness Day. Initiated in 2001 by Melburnian Sally J Finn, International Overdose Awareness Day is an opportunity to pause, grieve, memorialise lives lost, and to stimulate frank conversations about overdose and other drug-related harms and how to prevent them.
With new Australian drug laws required to comply with human rights frameworks, researchers at the GLaD program are conducting a new study funded by the Australian Research Countil to develop a world-first ‘post–human rights’ framework for drug policy.