Radio Interview: Impact of Recent Expert Panel Report on Asylum Seekers
L-R: Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny, Professor Mary Crock and Dr Caroline Fleay at the Centre for Human Rights Education Director of the CHRE, Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny, will be a guest...
View ArticlePaper: Nauru – Repeating the Past
As the first asylum seekers are sent to Nauru from Australia, the voices and experiences of those who were held on Nauru under the Howard Government must be heard. ‘Repeating Despair on Nauru: The...
View ArticleEvent – Nauru Mark II: The politics of seeking asylum in Australia
Nauru Mark II: The politics of seeking asylum in Australia The Centre for Human Rights Education invites you to a panel discussion with Dr Savitri Taylor, Andrew Bartlett, and Dr Caroline Fleay....
View ArticleAfter the event – Nauru Mark II: The politics of seeking asylum in Australia
The event ‘Nauru Mark II: The politics of seeking asylum in Australia’ that was run by the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University on Tuesday 9 October 2012 was a successful evening...
View ArticleCentre staff visit Indonesia
Dr Lucy Fiske and Dr Caroline Fleay from the Centre for Human Rights Education visited Indonesia in October 2012, where they attended the 2nd South East Asian Human Rights Network International...
View ArticleCHRE staff members’ trips to Melbourne and Canberra
It has been a busy time for CHRE staff members during the beginning of the non-teaching break! On November 12-13th, Dr Lisa Hartley, Dr Caroline Fleay and Dr Lucy Fiske from the Centre for Human Rights...
View ArticleAward: The Centre receives the Curtin Faculty of Humanities 2012 Pro-Vice...
Mary Anne Kenny and Lisa Hartley received the award on behalf of the Centre The Centre for Human Rights Education received the Faculty of Humanities 2012 Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Award for research and...
View ArticleReport: Released but not yet free
Dr Lisa Hartley and Dr Caroline Fleay have released a research report titled Released but not yet free: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Community after Long‐Term Detention. The report explores the...
View ArticleStruggling for Asylum – RTR FM interview series
Last week Dr Caroline Fleay was interviewed by RTR FM’s Morning Magazine show as part of their Struggling for Asylum discussion throughout the week. RTR FM interviewed the Refugee Council’s CEO, Greens...
View ArticleExperiences of ‘no advantage’: Asylum seekers living in the community
On the 25th of September 2013, Dr Lisa Hartley from the Centre for Human Rights Education spoke to attendees at the “Settling in Western Australia: Government, Service Provider, Community and...
View ArticleUpdate on the Centre’s activities for 2013
It has been a busy 6 months for the staff at the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) so we thought it was time for an update of our work. On top of our postgraduate teaching and our 10 year...
View ArticleLetter concerning family visa processing being stopped for refugees who...
In December 2013, the Minister for Immigration issued Direction 62 which means that any family visa application already submitted to the Department of Immigration by a person who arrived by boat and...
View ArticlePolicy as Punishment: Asylum Seekers in the Community without the Right to Work
Curtin University researchers from the Centre for Human Rights Education have just released the findings of the first academic study into the experiences of asylum seekers living in the community in...
View ArticleMotion to Oppose Offshore Processing – Australian Labor Party Caucus
On May 27 2014, the Australian Labor Party caucus will vote on a motion, moved by MP Melissa Parke and seconded by Anna Burke, to oppose offshore processing of asylum seekers on humanitarian grounds....
View ArticleCHRE submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission. as part of the...
CHRE Staff Mary Anne Kenny, Caroline Fleay and Lisa Hartley have provided a submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’ s ‘National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014’...
View ArticleArticle: Lessons in others’ kindness
The Centre for Human Rights Education’s Caroline Fleay visited Tehran in late April to participate in a South Asia forum on Afghan refugees in the region. Other participants at the forum were...
View ArticleCHRE staff members visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Caroline Fleay and Dr Lisa Hartley attended the Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 15-17 October 2014. They both...
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