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RMIT’s Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRIGHT) is proud to launch a new research theme that will investigate how workers’ lives and human rights are being impacted by changing business practices, globalisation, advancing technologies and climate change.

Presenting the blog by Justin Jos that won second place in our annual Business and Human Rights Blog Competition.

The RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre, led by Associate Professor Shelley Marshall, published two reports that assess Australian university efforts to combat modern slavery and labour abuses.

BHRIGHT conducts an annual Business and Human Rights Blog Competition – open to all university students around Australia.

Hosted by the RMIT Centre for Business and Human Rights and the Macquarie Law School, this virtual Symposium will nurture the next generation of business and human rights scholars.

Myanmar has been on the centre stage of world politics with the recent coup seeing the military reclaim power on 1 February.

This event brings together three experts in the field to develop policy recommendations capable of addressing this unsustainable situation. Recommendations arising from the panel will be sent to PM Scott Morrison prior to the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference.

The forum Addresses the global inequity of trials, intellectual property and distribution.

In this important event, politicians from the main Australian political parties will outline their policies and reform programs for how Traditional Owners give consent for use of their lands and waters.

We invite you to join Professor Julie Cogin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, College of Business, RMIT University and the RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre for the launch of the report, "First Peoples and Land Justice Issues in Australia" on 17th March 2021 at 10.30am.

Informing the business and human agenda of the next decade: 3, 4, 9th February 2021, 2 - 6pm AEST, Online

Imagine wanting to have a baby, but not being able to conceive naturally. Imagine spending significant personal savings—and time—coordinating with lawyers and ‘baby brokers’ in order to have your own baby born through surrogacy.

As many of us gingerly return to our workplaces, we are relying on cleaners to keep us safe.

As the global recession caused by COVID-19 deepens, the risk that banks are funding activities associated with modern slavery and land grabbing increases. Australia’s big banks are shielding homeowners from COVID’s economic impact. But they need to do more to protect the vulnerable outside Australia as well, where they have big business.

As the world focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 United Nations conference to progress international efforts to mitigate climate change under the Paris Agreement has been deferred until 2021.

An estimated 1 million garment workers have already lost their wages in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the pandemic. The cost of the Covid-19 on apparel workers is likely to be greater than the world has ever witnessed.

The Australian Government has announced its intention to roll out an app which alerts you to possible contact with anyone who has (a) installed the same app and (b) been diagnosed COVID-19.