The Social Media Ban: Human Rights and Practical Perspectives (ANZSIL IHRL Interest Group Webinar)

The ANZSIL International Human Rights Law Interest Group is pleased to present this webinar on Australia's Social Media Ban.

What does Australia’s social media ban mean in practice, and what does it mean for children’s and young people’s human rights? This webinar brings together Noam Peleg (UNSW) and Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch) to examine the social media ban from both practical and human rights perspectives. The panelists will discuss how the ban operates, its ongoing practical implications for young people, and the broader human rights questions raised by banning children's social media use.

                                  Noam Peleg is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Justice at the  University of New South Wales. Noam works in international children’s rights law, human rights law, childhood studies, and family law. His latest research has focused on questions of identity formation and development of children, children and social media, and more broadly, paternalism and human rights. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights and he is the Journal’s Book Review Editor. Noam was a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and Leiden Law School, and held a visiting research position at the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town.

Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer and author. She speaks regularly about law, technology, and human rights. In print, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, and Sydney Morning Herald, among others. She is the founder and the chair of Digital Rights Watch, which advocates for freedom, fairness and fundamental rights in the digital age. Lizzie also sits on the board of Blueprint for Free Speech and was involved in gambling reform for many years. At the National Justice Project, she worked with lawyers, journalists and activists to establish a Copwatch program, for which she was a recipient of the Davis Projects for Peace Prize. In June 2019, Lizzie O’Shea was named a Human Rights Hero by Access Now.