The Melbourne Newsroom

A leading advocate for Delhi’s poor will describe the eradication for Commonwealth Games activities of the city’s worst slums – places of abject squalor which millions of people are forced to call home, in the 2010 Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture at the University of Melbourne today.

Cities Alliance head and former United Nations settlements expert William Cobbett will share his perspective on the challenges of urbanization in the next Melbourne School of Design Dean’s Lecture for 2010.