Monash Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Monash Law School’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law the preeminent human rights centre in the Asia Pacific. The Centre is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation committed to the protection and promotion of human rights throughout the world. The Centre uses research and public education to generate innovative theoretical and practical approaches to understanding and implementing the growing body of international and domestic human rights law.

The Castan Centre’s mission is to bring together the work of national and international human rights scholars, practitioners and advocates from a wide range of disciplines including politics, health, business, economics, international relations, development, cultural studies, social welfare and information technology, as well as law.

The centre does this through teaching, scholarly publications, public education, which includes seminars, conferences, scholarships and internships, applied research, consultancies and advocacy.

The Centre’s human rights law mandate includes civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as collective rights; sectoral rights; international humanitarian law; and international, comparative and domestic human rights theory, policy and practice in both public and private domains.

The centre is named after Ron Castan AM QC (1939-1999), who was a passionate advocate for the recognition and protection of human rights and a distinguished member of the Victorian Bar.

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