Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS).<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Tuesday 4 October 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 5:30 \u2013 8:00pm<\/p>\n Venue:<\/strong> Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne<\/p>\n Cost:<\/strong> $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students<\/p>\n Register: <\/strong>HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria Sullivan, can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Registrations are now open for the Monash Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation lecture series.<\/p>\n Interested undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff are all welcome to attend the lectures.<\/p>\n Further information on topics, speakers and registration can be found\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Filipinos overwhelmingly voted Rodrigo R. Duterte as president of the Philippines in May 2016 after he made a campaign promise to eliminate crime and illegal drugs in the first months of his administration.<\/p>\n Even before he took office on June 30, 2016, the Philippine National Police launched Duterte\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs\u201d that saw hundreds of suspected criminals and alleged drug dealers gunned down in police operations.<\/p>\n Running parallel with these operations are summary killings perpetrated by unidentified gunmen. By the end of July — barely a month in office \u2013 more than 500 were killed by the police and these unknown perpetrators<\/p>\n Join Human Rights Watch<\/strong> Philippines Researcher, Carlos Conde<\/strong>, as he discusses the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines<\/a>, and why the Philippines government should publicly denounce unlawful killings and reiterate support for the rule of law.<\/p>\n Full event details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Friday 16 September 2016<\/p>\n2. Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Lecture Series<\/h2>\n
3. Public lecture: Philippines’ ‘War on drugs’<\/h2>\n