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Friday 23 December 2022

A look back at 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on some of our highlights from the past year from our team, alumni and colleagues. It’s certainly been a big year, with special milestones and achievements to celebrate.
Thursday 22 December 2022

McCabe Centre hosts plain packaging workshop for Eastern Mediterranean region

The McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer co-hosted a virtual workshop to bring government officials and civil society representatives from the EMRO region together to focus on plain packaging.
Wednesday 21 December 2022

New to the team in 2022

This year saw three new staff members join the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer throughout the year.
Thursday 8 December 2022

McCabe Centre collaborates with Norwegian Cancer Society, WHO, and WHO FCTC Secretariat on law and tobacco control workshop for European Region

From discussing digital marketing to preventing tobacco industry interference, colleagues from the European region came together in October to share ideas and perspectives in a workshop on law and tobacco control.
Thursday 1 December 2022

From Australia to the world: a decade of plain packaging

Ten years ago today, Australia took a bold step and became the first country in the world to implement tobacco plain packaging, paving the way for countries across the world to do the same.
Tuesday 25 October 2022

McCabe Centre completes first ever Mastercourse to provide training for civil society professionals

The McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer has launched its first ever accredited Mastercourse course for people from civil society, ‘Engaging with law and policy for cancer prevention and control’.
Thursday 20 October 2022

World Cancer Congress 2022: McCabe Centre team reunite to bring knowledge and research to colleagues from around the world

This week, members of the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer team were part of important global conversations about cancer prevention, control and policy.
Thursday 13 October 2022

Animated video: making effective public health laws

How does a good idea become a good law?
Friday 30 September 2022
Thursday 18 August 2022
Tuesday 31 May 2022

Animated video: Defending public health laws from legal challenges

One of the most effective tools in protecting people from the effects of tobacco is the law.
Thursday 3 March 2022

How the human rights framework is being used to promote healthier diets in the Pacific region

The Pacific region is showing how the human rights framework can be used to promote healthy diets in the region and at the same time how healthy diets are a human rights issue.
Friday 4 February 2022

Celebrating 10 years of advancing law to fight cancer

A decade after launching as the only centre of its kind in the world, the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer has released its 10-year impact report outlining its contribution to laws that prevent cancer and protect people affected by it.
Wednesday 19 January 2022

Collaborative workshop provides tools to strengthen legal implementation of the WHO FCTC in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The Knowledge Hub for Legal Challenges, hosted by the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer, collaborated with the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Office and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat to stage the workshop, which ran from 30 November to 8 December 2021, focusing on legal and regulatory measures for tobacco control.
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Friday 26 November 2021

Gold Awards for the McCabe Centre’s Online Legal Training Course

The McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer, in partnership with  Cancer Council Victoria’s Learning and Innovation Hub (LIH), have won three Gold Awards at the LEARNX Live! Awards, for their work on a new Online Legal Training Course.
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Monday 4 December 2023
People standing on stairs

Celebrating ten years of the WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges hosted at the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer

Although tobacco still kills eight million people each year, the world has seen significant progress on tobacco control in the past few decades.
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Representatives from eight Knowledge Hubs around the world

Knowledge Hubs gather in Helsinki for sixth meeting

Representatives from eight Knowledge Hubs around the world gathered in Helsinki, Finland in September 2023 to share information and find innovative ways to collaborate as we work together towards a tobacco-free future.
Wednesday 27 September 2023
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With global cancer cases on the rise, it’s more important than ever to acknowledge the significant contributions of unpaid carers, who are mostly women.
Tuesday 26 September 2023
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Women, power, and cancer: A Lancet Commission

This report applies an intersectional feminist approach to investigate, expose, and challenge the current imbalance of power in relation to cancer. The report calls for sex and gender to be included in all cancer-related policies and guidelines, and includes a Comment from The McCabe Centre on the potential for law to be a powerful tool for change.
Wednesday 6 September 2023

Australia's opportunity to catch up on human rights

Despite Australia’s support of human rights at an international level, formal action on a human rights act is lagging behind other countries – but we have a unique opportunity to change this.