Accountability in Crisis

On 11-12 October 2023, the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney will host its biennial conference, Accountability in crisis: the rise of impunity as a challenge to human rights.

It will bring together academics, journalists, politicians, activists, and business leaders to explore how a global pandemic, climate change, armed conflict and economic instability have triggered a parallel erosion of human rights and declining trust in democratic institutions. The conference will also consider how government, business, media and civil society operate to both undermine and bolster accountability.

The Hon. Mark Dreyfus KC, MP, Attorney-General of Australia, will provide a closing keynote for the conference, delivering the Hal Wootten Annual Lecture 2023, in partnership with UNSW Law & Justice.

The conference will also include an academic workshop. A call for papers for publication in a special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights can be found here.