Human rights and gender justice

This two-year research project is led by Dr Michael Salter and is funded by Westpac as part of their Safer Children, Safer Communities grant scheme.

This report from the Australian Human Rights Institute tracks Australian university responses to campus sexual violence and has highlighted the need for more transparent data reporting.

In 2024 the Australian Human Rights Institute and the Gender Violence Research Network at UNSW will seek to further explore the relationship issues commonly arising between HDR candidates and their supervisors, and how these issues are managed.

This pilot study involved a literature review and 47 anonymous interviews with professional and academic staff responsible for graduate research management across all faculties at UNSW and The University of Melbourne.

This project will contribute to feminist legal scholarship by demonstrating the operation and value of ‘gender judging’ in international criminal law where this concept has received little attention.

This research project focuses on the understanding, promotion and development of policies for sex and gender sensitive research across the medical research pipeline.

This initiative will address the lack of systematic evidence on what drives the effectiveness of the recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

This project seeks to assess the performance of UN member states in responding to human rights and health inequities faced by their women and girls, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries in the Asia Pacific region.

This research sought to address the systematic and persistent political under-representation of women in all branches of Vietnam's political system.

Building on research undertaken by the National Union of Students, this project focused on the development of effective and appropriate institutional responses to sexual assault and harassment in Australian universities, with a focus on the needs of women, LGBTQI students and international students.

The research investigated how technology and related policies around data privacy can be used to enhance the safety of individuals affected by domestic and family violence.