Synopsis

Gillian will speak about the human rights of children established by international treaties and their application to the detention of children in immigration detention and juvenile detention, and the growing numbers of children in ‘out of home’ care, especially indigenous children. She will examine the role of the medical profession in providing credible evidence and assessment of the effect of detention on children.

Speaker

Professor Gillian Triggs is an Australian academic specialising in public international law.  She was President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) from 2012 to 2017. Prof Triggs is a former Dean of the Sydney Law School, where she was the Challis Professor of International Law between 2007 and 2012. Prior to that she was a professor at the Melbourne Law School.

Gillian Triggs was Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner of the HRC from July 2012 to August 2013, and is presently the Acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. Her term as President of the HRC finished in July 2017.