Rights Limited: human rights in Victoria in the time of COVID-19

What are your human rights? Where do they come from? And what happens when they are constrained?

7:55 pm
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8:55 pm
Oct 1, 2020
7:55 pm
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8:55 pm
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Oct 1, 2020
Online

What are your human rights? Where do they come from? And what happens when they are constrained?

Held online in October 2020, the Forum explored the impact and implications of COVID-19 on our human rights.

The COVID-19 restrictions have put our human rights in the spotlight like never before. We are all living with tension between our rights as individuals and our responsibilities as members of our community.

For people living in the public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, however, the scales were tipped decisively when they lost all the freedoms we normally take for granted. Human rights protection is suddenly very real and very local.

Could the current debate lead to an Australian national charter or bill of rights? And what difference would that make?

Participant details

Inala Cooper

Director of Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development at the University of Melbourne.

Hugh de Kretser

Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.

Maria O’Sullivan

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University and a Member of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.

Mohamed Nur

Community organiser and resident, North Melbourne public housing.

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Participants

Inala Cooper
Director of Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development at the University of Melbourne.
Hugh de Kretser
Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.
Maria O’Sullivan
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University and a Member of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.
Mohamed Nur
Community organiser and resident, North Melbourne public housing.

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