COVID-19 Seminar Series – COVID-19 and Human Rights

Hosted with the Australian Human Rights Institute; Thursday June 25 – 5.00-6.00pm AEST

Louise Chappell, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, will be speaking about the human rights implications of Australia’s response to COVID-19, and consider how our international obligations in areas including the right to privacy, women’s rights, disability and ageing, are being upheld or undermined during the pandemic.

Elaine Pearson, Australia’s director at Human Rights Watch and advisory committee member at the Australian Human Rights Institute, will be speaking on the human rights impacts of the COVID-19 response, especially in Asia, and how some authoritarian-leaning governments are exploiting the pandemic to tighten their grip on power.