HREOC’s Human Rights Education Program is delivered using the World Wide Web and includes a range of interactive web-based learning modules that you can use to find out more about human rights.
You could also talk to your teacher about using these education modules. They're available free of charge on the Info for Teachers page.
Youth
Challenge
Teaching Human Rights and Responsibilities
The Youth Challenge Program includes a website, CD-Rom, videos and teaching strategies and worksheets for use in the classroom. The resources are designed for use by Upper Primary and Secondary School Students (Ages 11 - 17).
The Youth Challenge Program is broken into four distinct units. Click on the links below to access them:
- Youth Challenge Homepage
- Unit 1: Human Rights in the Classroom
- Unit 2: Disability Discrimination - 'But what about Doug's rights?'
- Unit 3: Young People in the Workplace
- Unit 4: Tackling Sexual Harassment in Your Classroom
Bringing
them home
Learning about the National Inquiry into The Separation of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families
The Bringing them home Education Module is designed to engage students and teachers in an exploration of the Bringing them home report.
The Bringing them home Education Module:
- traces the history of the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families in Australia
- charts the personal experiences and long-term effects of this history on the lives of Indigenous people
- explores the laws and practices across the country which allowed for this to happen.
The module comprises two major components:
There is also a collection of information sheets on Reconciliation, Native Title, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice which provide additional information.
Face
the Facts
Questions and Answers about
Refugees, Migrants and Indigenous Peoples
Race and racism are still burning issues in Australian society. Face the Facts was developed to address the need for clear information that addresses prevailing myths about refugees, migrants and Indigenous people. It is a straight talking publication which answers questions such as:
- Who is a refugee?
- Who is an asylum seeker?
- How many refugees come to Australia? and Where do they come from?
- How many people migrate to Australia?
- What is multiculturalism?
- How many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are there?
- What is Aboriginal reconciliation?
- Is native title the same as land rights?
Accessing Face the Facts
- Click here to access the Face the Facts Education Module
- Click here to access the Face the Facts Publication
Celebrate
Human Rights Day!
To coincide with Human Rights Day on 10th December HREOC has developed a small collection of activities to assist students in learning about and celebrating International Human Rights Day.
The activities included will be useful in assisting students to reflect on the principles that form the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and encourages them to understand and celebrate the rights we exercise everyday as Australians.
