Staff Expertise

• OHCHR Consultancy work, including drafting and teaching training modules for peacekeepers on human rights in peacekeeping operations.
• Teaching the law of peacekeeping operations for the Australian Federal Police, including a human rights component
• Providing seminars to the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre
• Conducting CEDAW training in Fiji
• Co-facilitating with the University of Melbourne’s Koori Centre for Health and Development a workshop on Indigenous Peoples Right to Health
• Collaborating with the Key Centre for Women’s Health on an interactive presentation on women and HIV AIDS
• ILOConsultancy work including conducting training in Mongolia
• Organising a course in India on the Law of Peace Operations

• Research consultancies for the Social Science Research Council, on the rule of law ‘vacuum’ in peacekeeping operations
• Provision of Legal Advice on the David Hicks case
• Involving law students in RILC cases
• Preparation of Parliamentary Submissions on human rights issues
• Conducting pro bono legal work, for example, on refugee and citizenship cases
• Provision of legal advice to NGO’s and advocacy groups, including Women’s Health Vic, Youthlaw, Frontyard
• Links to the Victorian Law Reform Commission, including participating in a advisory group on access to assisted reproductive services
• Working with the Women’s Economic Equality Project based in Canada to develop a General Comment on Women’s Economic and Social Rights
• Participating in the Advisory Council of Jurists to the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
• Acting as Amicus Curiae on international law matters at the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) trial of Slobodan Milosevic
• Documenting best-practice litigation in the area of HIV AIDs with UNAIDS
• Assisting PILCH with the drafting of a communication to the UN Human Rights Committee

• Directorship of Child Wise, an NGO dedicated to ending child exploitation
• Involvement in the Fair Wear campaign, looking at the exploitation of home based workers and the development of a code of practice and ‘no sweat shop’ label 
• Involvement with the PILCH and Liberty Victoria proposal to establish a Human Rights Legal Centre
• Assistance in the establishment of the Women’s Rights Action Network Australia
• Involvement in the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, based in Kuala Lumpur
• Connections to the Women’s Tribune Centre
• Links to the Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions including contributing to a book on socio-economic rights jurisprudence
• Links to the HIV AIDS Legal Network, including producing a report on establishing safe injection facilities in Canada
• Conducting research consultancies for the ILO 
• Representation of the LibertyVictoriaCommittee
• Links to Women into Politics Inc
• Involvement in the Civil Rights Network
• Links to Women’s Electoral Lobby
• Links to the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group
• Vice President Australian Red Cross
• On the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
• Membership of the IHL Advisory committee of the Australian Red Cross Victoria Division
• The Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby and Fertility Access Rights  

• Collaboration with the University of Bristol to organise a conference on workers rights in Spain
• Co-convening the Fulbright Symposium on Peace and Human Rights Education with the International Centre for Conflict Resolution
• Organisation of academic conferences on the Cultures of Human Rights, involving international human rights lawyers and theorists
• Involvement in a conference with the Centre for Innovation and Equity in Early Childhood

• Development of a Health and Human Rights Fellowship with the Centre for International Child Health at the University of Melbourne