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It's your right! - DVD Back to It's your right! homepage (All video clips are in .avi format) Unit 2: Hayat loses her job video clips Scene 1: In the meeting room at work [2.97MB] Click here for transcript Scene 2: In the meeting room, later [7.69MB] Click here for transcript Scene 3: Outside Hayat's house, three days later [7.15MB] Click here for transcript Scene 4: In Hayat's living room,…

Complete an activity sheet where you need to identify a character who came to Australia in 1970 and has a diverse range of experience and interests.

The customer comes first; if the customers are unhappy, they will not return. My business will go broke, and we will lose our jobs. So we have to keep the customers happy.

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.

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.

Provide students with picture cards from the Resource sheet: Human rights images. Ask students to brainstorm which human rights could be associated with the pictures (eg. right to vote, right to education). Make a list of rights on the whiteboard (they may think of others).

2. We all have identities that are significant to us; identities that have an impact on what we think and do. This is true at school, at home and at work.

The DVD/script has focused on the workplace. But human rights situations involving identity and difference' can occur anywhere. There may be situations in your own life at the moment - at school, in a sporting team, at a social club, or with your friends - where you see that identity or difference is dealt with inappropriately.

In order for us to realise the Commission’s vision of a society where human rights are for everyone, everywhere, every day, we have made building understanding and respect for human rights one of our two key policy priorities. We are seeking to lift the level of consciousness within the Australian community of the importance of human rights to the maintenance of our free, democratic,…

Discover an activity that explores human rights violations during war while also highlighting the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

You can complete an activity sheet where you need to find someone who likes Vegemite, has been on a plane, lived in another country and rides a bicycle.

Complete an activity sheet by the Commission that raises awareness of the types of discrimination faced by individuals and groups around Australia.

As a former teacher at the Woomera IRPC, I was able to witness at first hand, the conditions of detention and the resulting outcomes for Asylum Seekers.

The experience of people in rural and remote Australia has always featured prominently in the Commission's work. During the reporting year the Commission undertook two major projects addressing the human rights of children and young people in rural and remote Australia.

This submission provides information relevant to the treatment of children in detention for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's national inquiry into the situation of children in immigration detention.

In late 2001 the Attorney-General's Department organised a Forum on Illegal Sterilisation of Disabled Minors, which brought together officers from a range of government agencies. The Forum identified a number of legal, education and information activities that might be undertaken to ensure illegal sterilisations do not occur. It was proposed that the Forum meet again in 2002 to review progress…