Global calls argue that drug law reform should be guided by human rights – but what are ‘human rights’? Do they serve the best interests of all humans? And who is – and isn’t – considered ‘human’? A new paper from Professor Kate Seear and Sean Mulcahy: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are thrilled to be leading the biennial CDP Journal conference against in 2025! The call for papers is now open; please see below for details, and please encourage your friends and colleagues to apply:

Our latest article explores the absence of a right to health in the Victorian and Australian Capital Territory human rights charters. Read a summary here: genderlawanddrugs.org/2024/10/29/the…

Join us for the launch and workshop of our human rights and drug policy research report. This marks the culmination of a four-year research project undertaken to learn more about the relationship between human rights and drug policy. Register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/human-rights…

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Now up at #TacklingStigma2024 is our own Emily Lenton who is presenting a segment of our work from a much larger project on a ‘universal’ approach to stigma-free healthcare, conducted with colleagues incl. Professor Kate Seear Carla Treloar @elenajcama Adrian Farrugia Burnet Institute

We are delighted to be at #TacklingStigma2024 this week. Our program lead Professor Kate Seear will present later today on the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson and its wide ranging significance for the future of stigma-free policy, practice and law.

Vital work from Professor Kate Seear examining the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson, posing important questions around whether drug criminalisation is cruel, inhuman and degrading and thus incompatible with human rights law #TacklingStigma2024 @GLADLaTrobe

The initial report of the independent review of the General Insurance Code of Practice has recommended changes to the Code drawing from our research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C. genderlawanddrugs.org/2024/11/28/rev…

The call for papers for our 2025 Contemporary Drug Problems Conference in Manchester, England, is now open. Abstracts can be submitted anytime up until the 15th of January 2025. Please spread the word through your networks; we hope to see you there! latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/events/…

It’s great to be in Adelaide with the folks from AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 and the various DUOs from the states and territories at their health and human rights summit. Among other things we are hearing about the work of International Network of People who Use Drugs on human rights and what a rights-based approach should look like.

Our latest article from Sean Mulcahy and Professor Kate Seear explores legal archival gaps and using the fragments and remnants that remain to speculate on the performance of parliamentary human rights scrutiny genderlawanddrugs.org/2024/12/23/wor…

Listen to Sean Mulcahy interview Canadian law and humanities scholar-practitioners Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde genderlawanddrugs.org/2025/01/07/tal…

Recently, GLaD Researcher Dr Sean Mulcahy was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in Law at the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex, working with Dr Maria Federica Moscati on a dance, performance, and law project. genderlawanddrugs.org/2025/01/07/are…

In December, GLaD researchers Prof Professor Kate Seear and Dr Sean Mulcahy attended the lawlithum Association of Australasia conference at the University of Hong Kong. Read a report on their visit. genderlawanddrugs.org/2025/01/13/gla…

Delighted that my latest article with Prof Professor Kate Seear is out in the James Cook University Law It explores implications of the right to health services for people who use drugs in Queensland and legislation governing the use of drugs, and is free to read classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JC…