Andrea Tokaji on Mind Medicine with Charles Kovess - 27 August 2022

On today's show we discuss what are the key human rights that Governments are trashing in Australia and elsewhere. Also, how can we protect our human rights better and what impact does it have on mental health when our freedoms are attacked.

GUEST OVERVIEW: As a trained international human rights lawyer with a Juris Doctor from the University of Canberra and a Masters of International Human Rights Legal Advocacy from the Australian National University, Andrea was admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of the ACT in 2013. Andrea worked as a lawyer for the Commonwealth and ACT Attorney-Generals in Canberra writing legislation and policy, She has worked with the United Nations International Organisation for Migration, and was the Founder and CEO of the anti-slavery Human Rights lobbying advocacy education organisation: Fighting for Justice Foundation internationally for over six years in the Austral-Asia region. Andrea has worked as a Human Rights legal advocate and educator into Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, worked on Anti-Slavery Projects into America and has had the opportunity to speak in Geneva.