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Bringing Them Home - interactive resource (2017)
Bringing them Home was the name given to the final report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now called the Australian Human Rights Commission)
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Disability rights: Facilitating the empowerment of people with disability
This unit of competency has been designed to provide learners with the skills and knowledge required to facilitate the empowerment of people with disability, through the delivery of services driven by a person-centred, rights-based approach. Download the Trainer's Manual here, the Learner Guide and...
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An Introduction to Human Rights and Responsibilities (2016)
This resource has been designed to be used with an interactive whiteboard but can also be used on any internet enabled device, including a computer or tablet hooked up to a data projector.
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RightsEd: Disability Rights: Accessibility and Liveability
The Disability Rights: Accessibility and Liveability resource explores urban planning, community inclusion, and strategies to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Human Rights Examples for the Australian Curriculum
Human Rights Examples for the Australian Curriculum (English, History, Geography, Science and Maths – Foundation to Year 10)
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Face the Facts - Gender Equality 2014
In recent decades, women in Australia have made significant strides towards achieving equality with men. At universities, in workplaces, in boardrooms and in government, a growing number of women have taken on leadership roles, forging pathways for other women and girls to follow.
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RightsED: Bringing them home (2010)
In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now the Australian Human Rights Commission) released its report Bringing them home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Following this, the Commission received...
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Being Me: Knowing You resource (2010)
Being Me: Knowing You is designed for 11-15 year olds enrolled in community language schools.
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1981-86 Human Rights Commission education resources
Resources linked here have been added to this site for historical and archival purposes and should not be assumed to represent the views of the current Commission.
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Understanding human rights - rightsED
The Understanding Human Rights resource includes activities that are designed to help students clarify human rights concepts and provide an opportunity to explore the effect of human rights in their own lives.
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Voices of Australia - RightsED
This education resource is designed to complement the publication Voices of Australia: 30 years since the Racial Discrimination Act. The publication is available at: www.humanrights.gov.au/racial_discrimination/voices.
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RightsED - Young people in the workplace
Young people in the workplace contains a series of activities and resources to help students explore the issues around workplace discrimination. The activities help students to draw comparisons between the dramatised workplace issues and their personal experiences by looking at how concepts of...
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Commemorate Human Rights Day - rightsED
December 10 is the anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations (UN) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR sets out a certain set of rights that are the basic and minimum set of human rights for all citizens.
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