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’.
During a recent trip to Europe, GLaD team member Sean Mulcahy attended a public meeting of the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. Here, he describes how the spatial economies of the inquiry room, and the actors within, perform the act of a public hearing on human rights.
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.
Our latest article considers how a ‘culture of human rights’ is defined in research into human rights charters across Australian jurisdictions, including the ACT.
New Victorian legislation will introduce an electronic patient health information sharing system to enable public hospitals and other specified health services to share Victorians’ health information.
Recently, GLaD reserchers Sean Mulcahy, Emily Lenton and Dion Kagan presented a 3-part showcase of research findings from current projects addressing LGBTIQA+ human rights, hepatitis C data justice, and life after hepatitis C cure. Watch a recording of their papers here.
GLaD program researcher Sean Mulcahy is conducting a new project designed to audit Australian legislation that has been subject to human rights scrutiny
GLaD research lead Kate Seear gave a keynote presentation at the inaugural Australian Stigma Conference hosted by the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) in Canberra calling for reform to legal, social, policy and cultural dimensions of hepatitis C in order to better to address the health and human rights of people who use drugs.
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
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.
An important debate about religious discrimination and the intersections between religious beliefs and other rights has unfolded in Australia. In this post, we report on the debate surrounding the Religious Discrimination Bills.
The GLaD program was delighted to be invited to participate in the UNSW Centre for Social Health Research series ‘Spotlight on Stigma’, in April 2022.
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