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Colorful circular artwork inspired by Aboriginal designs, featuring intricate patterns, animals, and human figures on a black background with geometric motifs. The outer edge is orange, with blue and multicolored details inside.
Education

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)
Cover of RightsApp, featuring a blue hand-shaped graphic with a crowd of protestors inside it. Text reads: WHAT IF YOU HAD ONE REFERENCE GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW? Logos for LexisNexis and Australian Human Rights Commission.
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RightsApp

Developed by the Australian Human Rights Commission and LexisNexis®, RightsApp is the world’s first mobile application that allows users to quickly and easily search international human rights conventions and declarations by topic and right.
A male athlete in a wheelchair plays basketball in a gym. The cover text reads: Disability Rights: Inclusion and Sport. A unit of work for the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Years 7 and 8.
Education

RightsEd: Disability Rights: Inclusion and Sport

Introduction Almost 4 million Australians live with disabilities. If we add families, friends and colleagues, the number of people affected by disability is larger still. These lessons fit within the Years 7-8 Health and Physical Education curriculum. They are based on the Australian Human Rights...
Education

Being Me: Knowing You - resource (2010)

Being Me: Knowing You: an innovative human rights curriculum resource A partnership project with Community Languages Australia On 3 July 2010, the Being Me: Knowing You human rights curriculum resource was launched at the Victorian State Community Language Schools Conference. Being Me: Knowing You...
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RightsED - Young people in the workplace

Young people in the workplace Download complete resource in PDF or Word 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...
Education

RightsED: Child Rights

Child rights Subjects: Civics and Citizenship, Society and Environment Level: Year 5 and up (10 years and up) Time needed: 1 - 4 lessons All people – no matter their age, sex, colour, religion or where they live – have the same basic needs to live a healthy life. These needs include food, shelter...
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Voices of Australia - RightsED

back to download resources Voices of Australia Download complete resource in PDF or Word This education resource is designed to complement the publication Voices of Australia: 30 years since the Racial Discrimination Act. The stories in the Voices of Australia publication remind us that Australia is...
Cover of a publication titled Human Rights Commission: Human Rights, a Handbook, published by the Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1983. The design features bold black and white sections.
Education

1981-86 Human Rights Commission education resources

Education resources linked from this page were produced by the former Human Rights Commission established under the Human Rights Commission Act 1981. This Commission ceased to exist in 1986 pursuant to a sunset clause in its legislation and was replaced by the current Commission. Resources linked...
Education

Commemorate Human Rights Day - rightsED

Resource: Commemorate Human Rights Day Download complete resource in PDF (740 KB) Download complete resource in Word (340 KB) Resource information Subjects: Civics and Citizenship, Society and Environment (all), Design and Technology, English, Legal Studies, International Studies Level: Year 9 and...
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Human rights education in the national school Curriculum

Human rights education in the national school Curriculum: Position Paper of the Australian Human Rights Commission 2 June 2011 Download in Word [366KB] Download in PDF [199KB] Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Background to the national school curriculum 2.1 Who is writing the Curriculum? 2.2 What...
A diverse group of people holding hands in a circle, showing unity and support. The hands vary in skin tones, symbolizing multicultural togetherness against a neutral background.
Education

Understanding human rights - rightsED

Resource: Understanding human rights Human rights are basic to humanity. They apply to all people everywhere. An understanding of human rights is an important part of our individual status as human beings and of our collective status as members of the global community of humankind. To understand how...