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12 September 2021

Lights, Camera, Activism with Rachel Griffiths AM

In this conversation Kerry O'Brien speaks to one of Australia's most prolific arts professionals Rachel Griffiths AM about her celebrated career.

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3 March 2017

How does volunteering in an orphanage encourage modern slavery?

Last week, the Attorney-General announced an Inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia, a great step forward says Kate van Doore

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29 June 2018

Australian law set to tackle orphanage trafficking in travel company supply chains

Orphanage volunteering is seen as a positive for developing nations. However, child protection advocates have long reported the harm it causes children and the industry that profits from it.

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2 March 2018

Key advocate welcomes new campaign targeting orphanage tourism

Griffith law lecturer Kate van Doore has welcomed the Federal Government's announcement ofa new campaign to prevent Australians from inadvertently contributing to child exploitation.

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10 November 2017

Griffith academic receives prestigious award for fight against child trafficking

Child rights lawyer and Griffith Law School academic Kate van Doore has been recognised at this year’s prestigious Anti-Slavery Australia Freedom Awards after more than a year working to increase awareness around the insidious problem of child trafficking through orphanages in developing countries.

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27 July 2017

Stop orphanage volunteering and reduce child exploitation

Australia must do more to stop child trafficking in developing nations says Kate van Doore, leading international child rights lawyer.

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6 December 2022
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5 May 2020

A timeline of COVID 19 and Human Rights: Derogations in time of public emergency

This is the final of a series of five blogs on COVID 19 and human rights, focusing on the timeline...

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19 November 2019
A General Chart of New Holland published in An Historical Narrative of the Discovery of New Holland and New South Wales, London, Fielding and Stockdale, November 1786.

Griffith historian explores concept of race in new study

A new research study will explain why and how the Enlightenment concept of race hardened into categories of racial hierarchy at the same time as the notion of prehistory also began to take hold in European scientific thought before 1850.

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19 November 2018

‘Stop orphanage tourism’ urges Griffith Law lecturer

Griffith Law School lecturer Kate van Doore has used her keynote speech at the Trust Conference to encourage others to put an end to ‘orphanage tourism’.

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