Operationalising Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

In conjunction with UTS International Law Cluster, the Australia and New Zealand Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network is delighted to host "Operationalising Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" at UTS Law School on Wednesday 9 November (online) and Friday 11 November 2022 (online and in-person). 

Friday Zoom details

Time: Nov 11, 2022 09:20 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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If you intend to attend the event in-person or online please register on this site. We have limited availability for the in-person event so please register on this site as soon as you can to confirm your place. 

 The workshop has three aims:

• Developing skills within the Australian (and regional) economic, social and cultural rights community to strengthen the realisation of those rights;
• Fostering the ability to take action across multiple fora (in relation to federal, state and territory policy and laws, at the UN, in advocacy and strategic litigation) to operationalise these rights; and
• Fostering a network of scholars and scholarship to underpin such action.

Panels currently planned are:

Day 1: Wednesday 9 November – Online

9.30: Welcome and introductions

10.00 -11.15 Panel 1: Creative avenues for social and economic rights

Diana Camps (Glasgow): Accountability and Agency: Exploring Justice in the UK Social Rights Landscape

Lynsey Blayden (UNSW): Building (or rebuilding) institutional protections for social and economic rights

Rosalind Dixon (UNSW): Defensive Social Rights

11.15: Tea Break/social breakout room

11.30 – 1.20 Panel 2: Operationalising economic, social and cultural rights in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Paul Hunt (New Zealand Human Rights Commission): Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in New Zealand

Genevieve Wilkinson (UTS): Possibilities for the right to health in Australia

Cristy Clark (U of Canberra) and Beth Goldblatt (UTS): Climate Change and Social and Economic Rights: Operationalising the Right to a Healthy Environment in Australia

1.30 – 2.30: Book lunch

Melanie O’Brien (UWA): The Right to Clothing and Genocide – discussing her forthcoming book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge 2022)

The online day will wrap up after lunch, and we will reconvene on Friday 11th November.

Day 2: Friday 11 November – In Person/Hybrid

9.00: Welcome  

9.30 -11.00: Panel 3: Linguistic Discrimination and Economic, Social And Cultural Rights

Discussant: Janny Leung (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Laura Smith Khan (UTS): Access to work and English language proficiency requirements for migration agent registration

Kashif Raza (U of Calgary): Linguistic discrimination against multilingual workforce: A case study of English as a language of economy in Pakistan

Jacqui Mowbray (Sydney Uni): Minority languages in education: addressing linguistic barriers to enjoyment of the right to education

11.00 -11.30: Tea

11.30 - 12.15: Keynote Presentation

Malcolm Langford (Oslo) Constitutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

12.15- 1.15: Lunch

1.15 - 2.05: Panel 4: Indigenous Cultural Rights

Ayla Alves (UNSW): Beyond the Anglosphere in the International Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage 

Evana Wright (UTS): Operationalising Indigenous rights: Lessons from the Pacific

2.05 - 3.15: Panel 5: Avenues for engagement

Lida Ayoubi (AUT): The Right to Access to Information for Persons with Disabilities as a Catalyst for Operationalising their ESCRs in New Zealand

Jessie Hohmann (UTS) – Engaging the Parallel Reporting process under ICESCR

Julia Dehm (La Trobe) – Engaging with UN Special Rapporteurs

3.15 - 3.30: Discussion: The Way Forward for the Network 

3.30: Social Event