IHHR will host the next International  Intensive Course on Health, Development and Human Rights at UNSW, Kensington SYDNEY Australia.

 

Human Rights Day 2007 marked the start of a year-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More information on the 60th Anniversary Campaign here.

 

'The National Indigenous Health Equality Summit which was held in Canberra on 18-20 March 2008 resulted in a statement of intent between the government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples being signed by both the Australian PM Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson." More information:

 

Successful Completion of the Inaugural UNSW Intensive Course on Health, Development and Human Rights, July 16th-20th 2007.  Following the successful completion of the inaugural Intensive Course on Health, Development and Human Rights  in July 2007, the IHHR is planning to host the next intensive course again from 8 –12 December 2008. Further course details will be available on this website, in the Education & Training section, towards the end of 2007. Subscribing to IHHR News (by emailing us ihhr@unsw.edu.au ) our periodic email newsletter we will also provide you with future course updates.

 

The University of New South Wales in conjunction with the World Health Organization and UNAIDS hosted a satellite session titled "Access to care in the context of HIV Vaccine and other prevention trials" at the 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention on 22 July 2007, Sydney, Australia. The transcript and video of the proceedings can be found here:

 

The Faculty of the Built Environment is currently running an interdisciplinary elective course in which students are generating concepts for a school and associated residential accommodation for Ugandan children orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. The course is offered under FBEOutThere!, a unit that consolidates the faculty's community engagement activities. A great challenge is that the students will not be visiting the site. Their knowledge of the place, the people, the situation, the constraints and opportunities must be learned through the insights of others. These resource people are part of the "community of practice" throughout the session. As part of this process, Prof. Daniel Tarantola of the IHHR has been providing a comprehensive introduction to the social, political and environmental issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. For more information visit: http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/outreach/

 

March 2007:The University of New South Wales' Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) will be hosting Australia's first intensive short course on Health, Development and Human Rights from 16-20 July 2007. The course is created and taught by the multi-faculty IHHR, which derives its members from the Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Social Sciences and Law and includes pre-eminent international speakers. The course will establish the key concepts and frameworks of the three domains of health, development and human rights, before exploring the reciprocal links between the three fields. The final sessions of the course will explore the applications of these concepts and methods to particular areas of relevance to the participants. Both UNSW students and professional participants are welcomed to apply and enrol in the course.

 

Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of the IHHR attended the Seventh Meeting of the Reference Group on HIV and human rights which examined the major challenges posed by the epidemic, such as those involved in provider-initiated testing and counselling, criminalization of drug users, sex workers and men having sex with men, male circumcision and violence against women and children. For more information, visit:  http://www.unaids.org/en/Issues/Impact_HIV/20070216_Ref_group_HIV_HR.asp

 

Interviews with five of the participants, including Daniel Tarantola and Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia, and supporter of the IHHR, can be found here:

 

 

 

"Conflict, Tsunami Reconstruction and Human Development in Sri Lanka: Lessons to be Learnt"

 

The UNSW Faculty of Law is pleased to present the Ingram Lecture, to be given by Dr Deepika Udagama, Head of the Department of Law at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Diplomacy Training Program 

National Centre in HIV Social Research 

 

 

 

This year, in collaboration with the Initiative for Health and Human Rights, the Journal will be publishing a special issue devoted to the topic of health and human rights. Scholarly articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, and will be subjected to a peer review process. The Journal uses the Harvard referencing system. In order to allow the timely publication of this issue, we would ask that you submit articles by August 15, 2007. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call the editors of the Journal on 02 9385 3637 or send an email to ajhr@unsw.edu.au.