This year, former Socceroo and human rights advocate Craig Foster AM delivered Curtin University’s 10th Annual Human Rights Lecture, urging audiences to consider humanity’s place amid war, inequality, technology and economics.
ACHRE member and Director of Curtin University’s Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE), Associate Professor Yirga Woldeyes said: “As conflict, economic uncertainty and the ethical challenges of AI test human rights, [this year’s] lecture highlighted the need to keep people, dignity and justice at the centre of decision-making”.
The Curtin Annual Human Rights Lecture, established in 2016 and is a key initiative for the Centre for Human Rights Education. The inaugural Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs in 2016, followed by Dr Waleed Aly in 2017, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG in 2018, Behrouz Boochani delivered the lecture from Manus Island in 2019, and Dean Adrien K. Wing presented the lecture from the United States in 2020, with Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AM delivering the lecture from Bundjalong Country in 2021. (See https://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/)