International Law and the Regulation of Protest

Azadeh Dastyari is Professor of Human Rights Law and the Director of the Centre for Western Sydney, Australia, where she oversees a wide range of high-impact, equity-focused initiatives. Before joining the Centre, Azadeh was the Director of Research and Policy at the Whitlam Institute.Maria O’Sullivan is Associate Professor at the Deakin Law School in Melbourne, Australia, specialising in refugee law and human rights law. Her work has been cited by the High Court of Australia, the Court of Justice of the European Union and in a number of government inquiries.

• 1. Introduction: Defining and Contextualising the Right to Protest under International Human Rights Law Part 1: Conceptual Background to the Right to Protest 2. The Right to Protest under International Human Rights Law 3. Realising an Effective Right to Protest: Impediments and Opportunities Part 2: Case Studies 4. Petitioners, Protestors or Protectors? A Short History of Indigenous People and Protest 5. The Securitisation of Environmental and Climate Protest: Property Damage and Ecotage as Disarmament 6. Gender and Protest: What do ‘Nasty Women’ Want? Human Rights, Then and Now! 7. The Regulation of Protests by Non-Citizens: Migrants, Refugeehood and Citizenship 8. Social Media in the Life Cycle of Protest: Case Studies from Latin America Part 3: Conclusions 9. Conclusion: Defending Protest as a Human Right in a Changing World