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Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Training

The Castan Centre provides extensive human rights training for Australian government departments and overseas public officials. We have run courses for officers in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as well as Australian Aid Program courses for participants from Indonesia, Iraq, Vietnam and Burma/Myanmar. Involvement in these courses reflects the Centre’s commitment to helping improve human rights in our region.

Training programs in which the Castan Centre has been involved include:

  • Human Rights Training for the Judicial College of Victoria

    In 2007 the Castan Centre will conduct human rights training courses for the Judicial College of Victoria.  The presentations will introduce personnel to the Charter and will include discussions of sections on interpretation of statutory provisions and declarations of incompatibility.  These courses will highlight some general characteristics of human rights, as well as human rights law sources which underpin the Charter. They will also focus on the historical background to the Charter, as well as the Victorian Government's "whole of government" approach. 

  • Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission

    As part of a human rights training program the Castan Centre will undertake three projects for the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission between 30 October 2006 and 30 June 2007.  The three projects will cover i) Applied Human Rights Training to help Commission staff to identify issues regarding Charter rights; ii) Development of Human Rights Training Resources; and iii) Legal Training to Commission personnel.

  • The Rehabilitation Assistance Facility: Iraq (RAFI)

    This 2004 project was an AusAID funded program managed by SAGRIC International.  The Castan Centre, in partnership with Monash International, ran human rights courses as part of RAFI.

  • Indonesia Australia Specialist Training Project III (IASTPIII) Program

    The 2006 human rights workshops under this program were again delivered at Monash University Law Chambers from February through to May attended by 20 Indonesian participants.

    Human rights workshops were delivered at the Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne for 11 weeks from 4 October to 17 December 2004, for 19 Indonesian participants.

  • Indonesia Australia Specialist Training Project II (IASTPII) Program

    In 2002  eight weeks of human rights training workshops were delivered to 18 Indonesian government officials. In addition to a number of external experts engaged specifically for these workshops, many lecturers from within the Monash Law School were involved in the delivery of the workshops and seminars. 
      
    From April to July 2001 a thirteen week program of human rights workshops was delivered to 13 Indonesian government officials.  The program comprised lectures and seminars on the general theme of the nature, form and protection of human rights, as well as on-site agency visits.

  • Human Rights Training Workshops for Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

    The Castan Centre successfully tendered in 2005 to deliver further human rights training workshops for Officers in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the period 2006-2008.

    Human rights training workshops were delivered by the Castan Centre to Officers in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. These workshops were delivered by Professor Sarah Joseph and Dr Julie Debeljak.

  • Human Rights Workshops for Burmese Government Officials

    The Castan Centre completed a sixth series of human rights workshops in October/November 2002 for government officials in Burma under the auspices of AusAID . Sarah Joseph and Kate Eastman conducted the workshops in Yangon.