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Isma was introduced to the Network by a former member, Father Lindsay Fawlkner, now living in Alice Springs who told us at the consultation there on 5 June 2003:

These notes summarise a discussion with eight young Christians of Arabic speaking background led by Michael Mawal, Arabic Youth Worker at Australian Lebanese Welfare.

This consultation was held in collaboration with the Office for Multicultural Interests, the Ethnic Communities Council Women's Sub-Committee, the Al-Hidayah Islamic School, the Somali community, Dar Al Shifah, the Muslim Women's Support Centre and the Australian Islamic College.

The meeting was organised by Mr Jasmit Singh and attended by Dr Bill Jonas, Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner, Meredith Wilkie (notes) and Susanna Iuliano from HREOC. The meeting was attended by eight invited participants from Western Australia's Sikh community.

Dr Bill Jonas, Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner, opened the meeting with a brief presentation. Meredith Wilkie (notes) and Susanna Iuliano also attended from HREOC.

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Human rights are our entitlements to have our dignity and worth as human beings recognised. We all have them, we all want them recognised in our friends and families, and we all have responsibilities to recognise them in others.

Joint community and police projects, which aimed to build trust, respect, inclusion and participation, were eligible to receive funding of up to $10,000.

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On 5 December 2008 the Australian Human Rights Commission invited a group of young Muslim women to interview the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick for a future community radio segment that the young women will develop themselves. The young women are participating in  the 'Young Muslim Women’sShort Animation Film Project' co-ordinated by Paula Abood who is the Community Cultural Development consultant for the Bankstown Area Multicultural Network Inc (BAMN).

In a modern workforce where men and women work side by side it is important that employers protect their employees from unwanted behaviour that is not only harmful to the employee involved but also unprofessional and unproductive for the workplace. Sexual harassment is one form of unwanted behaviour that attempts to exclude individuals from the workplace by focusing on the sex of the person involved. Sexual harassment can happen in many different situations but overwhelmingly the complaints we receive involve the workplace.

The information available in relation to each of the 152 complaints varied. As such, it was not always possible to determine each finding in relation to all of the complaints. For each of the findings below, the number of complaints for which the particular information was available is noted in brackets.

Sexual harassment has been unlawful across Australia for almost twenty years with 2004 marking the twentieth anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (Sex Discrimination Act). [2] Over that period, community awareness of the existence of sexual harassment, particularly in the area of employment, has grown considerably.

Sexual harassment is an unwelcome sexual advance, unwelcome request for sexual favours or other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature which makes a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated, where a reasonable person would anticipate that reaction in the circumstances. [11] The Sex Discrimination Act defines the nature and circumstances in which sexual harassment is unlawful. [12]

The majority of reported sexual harassment was targeted at women, involved multiple forms of harassing behaviour and occurred on more than one occasion. In over one in five cases, the harassment continued for more than 12 months. Verbal harassment was often a precursor to physical forms of harassment.

We work to find practical and long-term solutions to the human rights issues facing people in Australia, as well as to build greater understanding and respect for human rights in our community.