Curtin University, through the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) is proud to present the 2019 Annual Human Rights Lecture, delivered by journalist, writer, filmmaker and refugee advocateBehrouz Boochani.

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About the lecture

The Curtin Annual Human Rights Lecture, established in 2016, is a key initiative of the CHRE. In 2019, Behrouz Boochani will deliver a presentation by a combination of video and live link from Manus Island where he has been forced to remain since seeking asylum in Australia in 2013.

In his forthcoming lecture Mr Boochani will focus on the refugee experience through the lens of human rights and politics. In his words: “I will explore the role of art and literature as an important language to challenge Australia’s inhumane detention systems and refugee policies and share my experience as a person who has been fighting against what I see as dehumanisation.”

The inaugural Human Rights Lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, Former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2016, and by Dr Waleed Aly, media commentator and academic in 2017, and last year the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered the lecture.

About Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He was born in western Iran and has been held on Manus Island since 2013. Boochani is the co-director, along with Iranian film maker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, of the documentary Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, has published numerous articles in leading media internationally about the plight of refugees held by the Australian Government on Manus Island, and has won several international literary, film and human rights awards.

His memoir, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019. The book was tapped out on a mobile phone in a series of single messages over time and translated from Persian into English by Omid Tofighian.