Hannah McGlade CF was born on 6 June 1969 and is an Australian academic, human rights advocate and lawyer.
10 Facts About Hannah McGlade
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Hannah McGlade is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation and is as of May 2022 an associate professor at Curtin University's law school.
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Hannah McGlade was appointed Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2016 and has been a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since 2020.
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Hannah McGlade is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation, an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are located on the southwestern coast of Western Australia.
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At Murdoch University, Hannah McGlade completed a Bachelor of Laws in 1995.
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Hannah McGlade was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996.
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Hannah McGlade was successful, and Lightfoot was charged with breaching the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
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In 2016, Hannah McGlade began campaigning for a stand-alone national action plan to address violence against women, and her advocacy was successful before a number of UN treaty bodies and expert mechanisms.
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Hannah McGlade was later the first CEO of the newly established Aboriginal Family Law Services.
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Hannah McGlade was appointed Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in 2016.