HREOC’s Human Rights Education Program is delivered using the World Wide Web and includes a range of interactive web-based learning modules that you can use to find out more about human rights.
You could also talk to your teacher about using these education modules. They're available free of charge on the Info for Teachers page.
Youth
Challenge
Teaching Human Rights and Responsibilities
The Youth Challenge Program includes a website, CD-Rom, videos and teaching strategies and worksheets for use in the classroom. The resources are designed for use by Upper Primary and Secondary School Students (Ages 11 - 17).
The Youth Challenge Program is broken into four distinct units. Click on the links below to access them:
- Youth Challenge Homepage
- Unit 1: Human Rights in the Classroom
- Unit 2: Disability Discrimination - 'But what about Doug's rights?'
- Unit 3: Young People in the Workplace
- Unit 4: Tackling Sexual Harassment in Your Classroom
Bringing
them home
Learning about the National Inquiry into The Separation of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families
The Bringing them home Education Module is designed to engage students and teachers in an exploration of the Bringing them home report.
The Bringing them home Education Module:
- traces the history of the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families in Australia
- charts the personal experiences and long-term effects of this history on the lives of Indigenous people
- explores the laws and practices across the country which allowed for this to happen.
The module comprises two major components:
There is also a collection of information sheets on Reconciliation, Native Title, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice which provide additional information.
Face
the Facts
Questions and Answers about
Refugees, Migrants and Indigenous Peoples
Race and racism are still burning issues in Australian society. Face the Facts was developed to address the need for clear information that addresses prevailing myths about refugees, migrants and Indigenous people. It is a straight talking publication which answers questions such as:
- Who is a refugee?
- Who is an asylum seeker?
- How many refugees come to Australia? and Where do they come from?
- How many people migrate to Australia?
- What is multiculturalism?
- How many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are there?
- What is Aboriginal reconciliation?
- Is native title the same as land rights?
Accessing Face the Facts
- Click here to access the Face the Facts Education Module
- Click here to access the Face the Facts Publication
A
last resort?
The National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
To coincide with the launch of A last resort? - the Report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention, the Commission has released two activities which will assist students in accessing the National Inquiry Report and Summary Guide to the Report
The National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention was announced in November 2001. It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The A last resort? Summary Guide provides an overview of some of the important issues, findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. It is not an exhaustive account of all the information contained in the Inquiry report.
Accessing A last resort?
- Click here to access the A last resort? Education Resources
- Click here to access A last resort? - the Report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Celebrate
Human Rights Day!
To coincide with Human Rights Day on 10th December HREOC has developed a small collection of activities to assist students in learning about and celebrating International Human Rights Day.
The activities included will be useful in assisting students to reflect on the principles that form the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and encourages them to understand and celebrate the rights we exercise everyday as Australians.
Paid
Maternity Leave - Activities on Gender and the
Workplace
The activities included in the Paid Maternity Leave Education Module assist students to develop an understanding of gender and the workforce. It includes a fact sheet, a case study, teaching notes, structured activities and a student interview with the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward.
Follow
the Rabbit-Proof Fence
In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released Bringing them home, a report on the two year National Inquiry into the Separation of Indigenous Children from Their Families. The Report drew together the personal experiences of many Indigenous people around Australia as evidence of the systemic removal of Indigenous children from their families.
In 1996, Doris Pilkington published her award-winning novel Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. The story draws on the experiences of three young Indigenous women (Molly, Gracie and Daisy) who escape a settlement school to return to their families. The account highlights many of the themes and issues raised in Bringing them home.
