In this submission, the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law comments on Victorian laws relating to creating, sharing, sending or posting of sexually explicit messages or images via the internet, mobile phones or other electronic devices by people, especially young people – known as sexting.

This address by journalist and author Tony Maniaty, took place at the Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne on 15 October 2009. Tony Maniaty covered the conflict in East Timor in 1975, was European Correspondent for SBS's Dateline, Executive Producer of ABC's The 7.30 Report, and Senior Advisor, Policy and Program Development, for ABC News and...

Justice Thomas Buergenthal, International Court of Justice and former child prisoner, presented this 2009 Castan Centre Annual Lecture in association with Holding Redlich and the Melbourne Writers Festival. Justice Thomas Buergenthal, formerly of the UN Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, is currently a judge at the International Court of Justice...

This submission discusses the most appropriate way to protect human rights in Australia. Should such protection rely essentially on Australian Parliaments, or should protection be supplemented by judicial involvement in human rights protection under a federal Bill of Rights?

In 1993 the Security Council of the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in so doing gave birth to a new system of international justice. It was followed by the Rwanda Tribunal, mixed tribunals for East Timor, Sierra Leone and Lebanon and, most important of all, the permanent International...