Reclaiming my lockdown routine morning walk around Princess Park as a an anxiety free place now post first trip back to Sweden in 2,5 years. The trees look greener, the coffee tastes better - it’s good to be home after going home!

Released today- a report into the effectiveness of Australia's Modern Slavery Act by Shelley Marshall Justine Nolan UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute Freya Dinshaw HumanRightsLawCentre Keren Adams Baptist World Aid Australia Martijn Boersma 🇵🇸 @alittlewave Read it here shorturl.at/yHKNY #paperpromises

Ingredients for effective #HumanRights due diligence: Worker-oriented grievance mechanisms💡 While many companies now have grievance mechanisms, few - only 12% of those assessed by KnowTheChain - can show they are available to & used by #SupplyChain workers below tier 1.

We, our director Shelley Marshall and Surya Deva are excited for the 2022 Asia and Oceania Business and Human Rights Doctoral Symposium that kicks off tomorrow! @JJDeSantolo will give the first keynote on Decolonising Research and Indigenous Methodologies #bizhumanrights

Join us and Aalto University on the 19th of May to hear our expert panel discuss corporate sanctions in Russia through the lens of corporate political responsibility. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A, register below; eventbrite.com.au/e/panel-corpor… #RussiaUkraineConflict

Join us on Thursday this week to hear Andrew Crane Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon present as they present their new paper on the topic CEO activism: a political theoy. Find out more and register here eventbrite.com.au/e/research-web…

The things you can get done when (voluntarily) forced to sit in a room with other people and write. Just what this thesis needed, it’s a steep hill at the end. Oops my five minutes break is up #phdlife Academic Chatter™

Horrible news!

UN Human Rights Office issues assessment of human rights concerns in #China’s #Xinjiang #Uyghur Autonomous Region. Read more: ow.ly/G4y250Kxj0X

The forever writing PhD thesis struggle - first there are no words, which gives you anxiety. Then there are too many words, which gives you anxiety. Finish one chapter. Then it starts all over again #thesiswriting #phdlife PhD Voice - Independently Run

So excited to be heading to @CRIMT2013 Conference in Montreal in a couple of weeks! First international conference for this P(andemic)hD student and I am so excited to present my research and meet people who are working on groundbreaking research on #betterwork

Listening to Patrick Poon🎐 account of the depressing and dangerous reality Hong Kong activists and the democracy movement in China face and how virtually impossible it is to work for human rights from inside China

Courage is contagious - Hearing and seeing from Shahidul Alam about how he as journalist and activist in Bangladesh was arrested and detained in 2018. Highlighting the many a tories of how civil society is under attack around the Asia.

Fatimah Zahrah from ASEAN Youth Forum points out the role of digital and social media and how young activists are deploying humour and pop culture references as key tools to further the spread and vitality of pro-democracy protest around Asia

BHRIGHT researcher Sara Tödt had to deal with a pandemic and miliary coup to put together her new report on Myanmar's struggling local garment industry. Please join her and an expert panel this Wednesday, as we launch 'Stitching Together a Future'. Tix bit.ly/3V3wV6N

Congratulations to BHRIGHT's Sara Tödt, who this week won the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Impact - Higher Degree by Research. To find out more about Sara's research into the many challenges facing Myanmar's garment industry, click here rmit.edu.au/research/centr…

Sara Tödt talks about stitching together a future for #Myanmar garment workers after a tumultuous 2 years of crisis and change. Working with BHRIGHT and CARE International the report outlines what the garment workers need from international stakeholders bit.ly/3HjUBzy

The pandemic had dire impacts for #informalworkers - the subjects (or really the heros) of my Living Wage Book - making the #regulatory solutions I proposed all the more pressing. Travelling around #India, it was very satisfying to finally have an opportunity to share my findings

A late one (I blame the “ finalising PhD I don’t know if I’m actually alive” bubble) but so happy to be published along side some fantastic researchers in the Labour and Industry, peer-reviewed journal special issue in Work Not as Usual!