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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
Contents Introduction Focus Teaching and Learning Activities Learning Outcomes Australian Curriculum Links – Geography Disability Rights: Accessibility and Liveability Lessons Lesson 1: What makes a community liveable for diverse groups of people? Lesson 2: Assessing the liveability of your local...
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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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Understanding human rights - rightsED
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.
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RightsED: Child Rights - Index
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, education, healthcare and freedom from persecution and discrimination.
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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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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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