The materials available on HREOC’s website are complimented by links to other peak bodies on state, national and international levels. Both government and non-government organisations are included in this comprehensive list of useful human rights education resources.
Australian Human Rights Resources
- State and Territory Anti-discrimination and Equal Opportunity Agencies
- Government websites
- Other websites
Government websites
- Aboriginal Studies Association – The ASA is
for teachers, students, parents and community - both Aboriginal and other
Australian, tertiary educators, consultants and liaison staff and anyone
who wants to know more or wants to share what they know about Aboriginal
Studies.
http://www.asa.nsw.edu.au - AusAID Global Education website – provides primary
and secondary school educational material
http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/
globaled/jsp/index.jsp - Australian Government Education Portal
http://www.education.gov.au/goved/go - Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women
http://www.osw.dpmc.gov.au - Commonwealth Ombudsman Australia
http://www.comb.gov.au - Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
http://www.eeo.gov.au/Information_Centres/
Student_Centre.asp - National Museum of Australia – resources for
schools
http://www.nma.gov.au/schools/school_resources/ - National Native Title Tribunal – fact sheets
http://www.nntt.gov.au/publications/ - NSW Department Commerce: Office of Industrial Relations
http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/rights/ - Parliamentary Education Office
http://www.peo.gov.au
Information on Workplace Issues
- ACTU Worksite for Schools website
Includes fact sheets about worker's rights.
www.worksite.actu.asn.au/ - Lawstuff website
Provides State-specific information for young people on legal issues including employment and bullying. www.lawstuff.org.au/ - CareerChick website
Provides useful information about employment - including information about equal opportunity. www.careerchick.com.au/ - Workplace.gov.au
Federal Government web portal focusing workplace and employment issues. www.workplace.gov.au/
Other Australian websites
- Aborigines Online: Gooris on the Macleay – features
artwork, stories and interviews with young people and has information
on a wide range of topics including a guide to community services for
young people
http://www.gotm.com.au/index.cfm - The Age Education website
http://www.education.theage.com.au/ - Amnesty International Australia
http://www.amnesty.org.au/ - Amnesty International Australia – ‘Defending
Refugees' Human Rights' has factsheets and asks people to consider the
conditions that refugees leave their country and how they are treated
in Australia
http://www.amnesty.org.au/whats_happening/
refugees - Amnesty International Australia – ‘Stop
Violence Against Women’
http://www.amnesty.org.au/whats_happening/
stop_violence_against_women - The Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention
of Ethnic Conflict
http://wwwlaw.murdoch.edu.au/apchr/ - Australian Human Rights Centre
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/ahric - The Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation website has information on native title, the treaty process, reconciliation,
stolen generations and practical reconciliation
http://www.antar.org.au/ - Borderlands
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/ - Bullying No way! has information on issues including
disability, gender, sexuality, religious diversity and cultural diversity.
http://www.bullyingnoway.com.au/ - Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights
http://www.deakin.edu.au/cchr/ - Discovernet is the learning gateway to Australian
Museums and Galleries. It offers many uniquely Australian stories, exhibitions,
interactive games and research activities that are relevant to all curriculum
areas.
http://www.amol.org.au/discovernet/
teacherzone/index.asp - Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
http://www.erc.org.au - A Just Australia – Australians for Just Refugee
Programs
http://www.justrefugeeprograms.com.au/ - Lawstuff provides State-specific information for young
people on legal issues such as alcohol, car accidents, employment, pregnancy
and bullying. Presented in a fun and accessible way
http://www.lawstuff.org.au/ - The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Website has information on culture, issues and links to resources
http://www.natsiew.nexus.edu.au/lens/topics/ - NSW Commission for Children and Young People –
Student Resources provides an all-in-one guide on its website for students
or those interested in children's issues.
http://www.kids.nsw.gov.au/publications/
studentresources.html - Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
http://www.oxfam.org.au/ - Play by the rules
http://www.playbytherules.net.au/ - Racial Respect
http://www.racialrespect.org.au/home/ - The Racism. No Way! project aims to assist school
communities and education systems to recognise and address racism in the
learning environment. It has classroom activities and a resource library.
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/ - Reconciliation Australia is an independent non-profit
body which provides a national focus for the process of reconciliation
between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the wider Australian
community.
http://www.reconciliationaustralia.org/ - UNESCO Education Network - Australia
http://unesco.edna.edu.au/ - United Nations Association of Australia
http://www.unaa.org.au/ - World Vision Australia
http://www.worldvision.org.au/index.asp
International materials on human rights
United Nations sites
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - available
in many languages
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm - The United Nations Website provides information about
the history of the UN; its agencies and human rights issues; international
treaties; humanitarian programs; peace and security programs; and economic
and social development
http://www.un.org/ - UNICEF – the United Nations Children's Fund
assists children throughout the world.
http://www.unicef.org/- Voices of Youth (Unicef) -Voices of Youth' is a forum for
young people to discuss different issues, such as child labour, education
and poverty.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
- Voices of Youth (Unicef) -Voices of Youth' is a forum for
young people to discuss different issues, such as child labour, education
and poverty.
- The UN CyberSchoolBus website provides lots of information
on human rights for young people including quizzes and games. Includes
teaching units on peace education, poverty and human rights
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus - UN Human Rights Education -co-ordinates the World Program for Human Rights Education www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/programme.htm
- The 1951 Refugee Convention website has information
about the creation of the Convention and current refugee issues
http://www.unhcr.ch/1951convention/ - Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
http://www.un.org/hr/indigenousforum/ - The State of World Population
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm - Women Watch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Other Non-Government Organisations' sites
- Amnesty International – Established in 1961,
Amnesty International is a vocal human rights advocate, particularly on
torture, the death penalty and the imprisonment of people for their political
beliefs
http://www.amnesty.org/ - Amnesty International USA – Human Rights Education
website
http://www.amnestyusa.org/education/ - antiracist.com
This site run by The Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society (CAERS), dedicated to equality and the human rights community world wide
http://www.antiracist.com - ARRC (Asian Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education)
– includes a range of resources including Human Rights Education
Success Stories and the "My Drawing, My Rights" online children's
gallery
http://www.arrc-hre.com/home_frameset.html - The BritKid website provides resources for teachers
on issues relating to race and racism in Britain
http://www.britkid.org/ - CARF – Campaign Against Racism and Fascism –
CARF is Britain's only independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance
against racism
http://www.carf.demon.co.uk/ - Child Rights Information Network
http://www.crin.org/ - The Commonwealth - education resources developed to promote education across the Commonwealth
- E.R.A.C.E – slick looking US site, dedicated
to promoting reconciliation and unity amoung races
http://www.erace.com - ERASE: Expose Racism & Advance School Excellence – the ERASE Initiative is a national program which challenges racism
in public schools and promotes racial justice and academic excellence
for all students
http://www.arc.org/erase/ - Free Documentaries - Human Rights documentaries, streamed on the internet.
- Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the
human rights of people around the world. It deals with global issues including
children's rights, refugees, women's rights and international justice
http://www.hrw.org - iCare: Internet Centre Anti-Racism Europe –
I CARE is a virtual network to support and to be used by those who are
committed to improve universal human rights standards and particularly
non - discrimination principles. I CARE's main role is to provide services
adapted to the needs of NGOs and to European civil society in general
http://www.icare.to - International Labour Organisation
http://www.ilo.org - Islam and Human Rights
http://www.law.emory.edu/IHR/ - Museum of Tolerance – many resources about the
holocaust
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/resources/ - The New Internationalist website has regular updates
on human rights campaigns from around the world.
http://www.newint.org - One World is an umbrella group made up of over 1,500
non-government organisations. It has heaps of easy-to-read information
on human rights, social justice and aid and development issues in all
sorts of different media.
http://www.oneworld.net/ - outProud – the national coalition for gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender youth
http://www.outproud.org/ - Racism Watch Desk – “the Racism Watch Desk
monitors and combats the media's marginalization, misrepresentation and
exclusion of people of color--both in the news and in the newsroom"
http://www.fair.org/racism-desk/ - The Tolerance.org website provides lots of information
for teachers, kids and parents on promoting tolerance, diversity, equity
and human rights
http://www.tolerance.org - The World Bank Group – GenderNet
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/ - World Wise Schools
Teaching resources from US Peace Corps. "seeks to engage US Students in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others"
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/ - Youthinformation.com
http://www.youthinformation.com
