Human Rights and Governance
Overview
The Human Rights and Governance research program was officially established in 2008 to reflect the growing and diverse interest and strength of faculty academics broadly in the areas of Human Rights and Governance.
Researchers in this program group are involved in broad ranging research in the fields of human rights and governance, from a national and particularly international perspective. Some of the areas of investigation by this group include:
- International human rights including:
- Gender Rights
- Socio-economic rights - including labour rights
- Environmental rights
- Indigenous rights and protection from cultural genocide
- Human trafficking
- Refugees
- Duties of care
- Domestic and international mechanisms for protecting human rights
- The effect of new technologies in human rights, especially identification technologies
- National governance
- National Integrity Systems
- Constitutional Law
- Administrative Law
- International values underpinning governance and the institutions for realizing those values
- Global Integrity Systems
- The rule of law in a globalising world
- Sovereignty and intervention
- Peacekeeping and conflict
- Failed states.
One of the key ingredients for this program is its ability to collaborate and integrate with the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL) and affiliated Institute with the Law and Justice Research Centre. IEGL incorporates crossdisciplinary theorising and empirical work that brings together the normative sciences of ethics and law with the social sciences of international relations, political science, economics, sociology and criminology. This program will draw on, and contribute to, earlier IEGL work on the way in which international and national governance mechanisms have been challenged in a world of increasing globalisation and more powerful and diverse non state actors.
