michael kirby: don't forget the justice bit

The City of Sydney Library will host a special Law Week screening of Daryl Dellora's documentary, Michael Kirby: Don't Forget the Justice Bit, on Thursday, 20 May 2010 in the Customs House Library. Time: 5.30 for 6.30. Bookings are essential. Free event for library members, $15 for non-members.

Human rights: sites of vulnerability for refugees and migrants

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 4pm - 6pm

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, UTS City Campus
Level 3, Mary Ann House, 645 Harris Street, Sydney

Refugee woman and girls face risks of rape and sexual violence not only during the height of armed conflict but at every stage of the refugee journey. Women at girls are routinely raped by border guards as they try to cross international borders and in detention and urban settings in countries of asylum. Sadly for many women at risk these dangers and human rights abuses continue in so called sites of safety including in refugee camps and in countries of resettlement. Since February 2002 Linda has undertaken research with refugee women in camps and urban areas in East and North Africa, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in order to better understand the extent and impact of this problem and to work with refugee women and UNHCR staff to find solutions. She will discuss the the multiple sites in which refugee women and girls experience rape and sexual violence and the compounding impacts of multiple experiences of abuse including social exclusion, babies of rape. She will also explore the way in which shame, stigma, social exclusion, xenophobia, racial and cultural stereotyping can intersect to increase women and girls risks of further incidents of rape and sexual violence.

For more information, or to register, download a flyer.

privacy forum

Program

9:30am: Launch with general public audience
Opening welcome: Mary Macken, NSW Law Society President
Opening remarks: John McAteer, The Principal Privacy Officer, NSW Privacy Office

10:00am: Identity theft, scams & rip-offs - how to avoid loss from fraud
Speaker: Federal Police Inspector Damien Stewart

10:30am: A perspective from students point of view on unauthorized use of private data

Speaker: Tim Robinson, Sydney University Archivist

11:00am: Departmental Update on Electronic Health Records
Speaker: (A speaker from the Canberra’s Health Department)

12.00 noon: Using Facebook - Tips & Traps
Speaker: Geoff Holland, UTS Lecturer

1.00pm: Free coffee and biscotti at the Theatrette Bar

2.00pm: A summary of current privacy legal rights (for Italian audience)
Speaker: an Inner West Law Society Solicitor

3.00pm: The 2011 Amendment of the 1988 laws on credit rating. The new look expanded credit risk databases (for a legal audience)
Speaker: Olga Ganopolsky, Head of Legal & Compliance, Veda Advantage

4.00pm: The 2009 LRC Draft Bill creating a statutory tort for damages for invasion of privacy. Recent Australian privacy case decisions
Speakers: Nicholas Newton of 13 Wentworth Selborne Chambers with Michael Rivette of Blackstone Chambers