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Earlier this month, Travis Bazzana made history as the first Australian selected number one in the Major League Baseball (MLB) draft.

The Centre for Law and Social Justice builds collaborative partnerships with government agencies and NGO's in Samoa

For those in the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride month is a chance to be out, loud and proud. But in the United States, there's been an uneasy quiet hanging over this June.

For almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of being pregnant. A pregnant woman sentenced to death would receive a stay of execution until the baby was born.

Australia is a human rights outlier among liberal democracies, with no national charter of human rights. Its human rights protections are piecemeal and split across a patchwork of laws, authorities and jurisdictions.

As part of our advocacy work, the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) made two submissions to the Inquiry (submissions 185 and 185.1).

The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the effort to bring justice to the victims of international crimes in Israel and Palestine.

Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession.

On 10 May 2024, representatives of the Centre for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) and Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) briefed Senator Penny Allman-Payne on the Right to Education Report.

The goal of the roundtable was to translate recent research findings about family inclusion into policy and practice throughout New South Wales. The Roundtable highlighted the work and leadership of organisations that have had a long-term commitment to promoting family inclusion, in particular, Family Inclusion Strategies in the Hunter Inc. (FISH) and Grandm

NEWCASTLE-based researchers, parents, government, and child protection workers have come together in what's believed to be a national first to find solutions to a broken system.

The Centre for Law and Social Justice in association with Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and the Human Rights for New South Wales Alliance launched the School Students' Statement on the Right to a Healthy Environment. The Statement was launched by Trisha Doyle MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, Heritage, Climate Change, and Energy.