Protecting Human Rights in Australia – a community education kit

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has produced a kit on human rights in Australia to contribute to community education and consultation.

The kit was launched at the State Library of NSW on 4 June 2004 by Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, Law Faculty, Australian National University and Chair of the ACT Bill of Rights Consultative Committee.

PIAC's Kit aims to provide community education about human rights that affect everyone in Australia through a series of fact sheets.

Each fact sheet deals with a particular issue and illustrates the international human rights standards and how human rights protection in Australia could be improved.

The Kit contains fact sheets on

• Background to human rights protection in Australia
• Age discrimination
• Civil and political rights
• Disability rights
• Education rights
• Environment and human rights
• Health rights
• Housing rights
• Indigenous rights
• Race and religious discrimination
• Refugee and asylum seeker rights
• Sexuality rights
• Social security rights
• Women's rights
• Workers' rights

These fact sheets can be used separately to provide basic information about a particular area of life or specific human rights issues facing particular groups in the community.

They can also be used together as a set and will provide a valuable resource for community education.

Follow this link to access the fact sheets (opens in a new browser window)
Note: the fact sheets are listed under their specific headings in the section on Fair Trade and Human Rights.

For further information

Contact	:	Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
Address	:	Level 9, 299 Elizabeth Street Sydney 2000
Phone	:	61 2 8898 6500
Fax	:	61 2 8898 6555
Email	:	piac@piac.asn.au

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