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.
The Victorian Law Reform Commission is currently conducting a review of Victoria’s laws relating to rape, sexual assault and associated adult and child sexual offences. The review will make recommendations to improve the justice system’s responses to sexual offences. The Commission will deliver its report to the Attorney General very soon.
The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System delivered its final report in February of this year, and it was tabled in Parliament in March. Among the matters the Commission was appointed to consider was the need to address the stigma associated with mental health, and the need to safeguard human rights.