12 March 2014 Dr Sev Ozdowski, President ACHRE, has presented a Citizens for Humanity Certificate to the year 11 and 12 Legal Studies students of Moorebank High School for their commitment to and knowledge of human rights issues. Year 12 students, under the leadership of their HSIE Teacher Ms Mai Ni Pham have just completed …
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NT HRE Grant Acquittal
3 March 2014 In September 2011 NTCHRE has secured the Federal Government AG’s Grant for Human Rights to design pedagogy and facilitate human rights education workshops in remote community schools. The important HRE project undertaken jointly with NT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities has been successfully completed now. In an acquittal letter to ACHRE-NT’s …
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Human Rights Education Paper
3 March 2014 Dr Sev Ozdowski and Associate Professor Nina Burridge of ACHRE has written a paper examining the human rights education system in Australia. The paper is based on a paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Human Rights Education in Taipei, Taiwan in November 2013 will be published in the 5th volume …
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The Citizen for Humanity Certificate Awarded to Sir Joseph Banks High School
17 February 2014 On Monday 17 February Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM, President, ACHRE met with students of Year 11 Legal Studies Students of Sir Joseph Banks High School of Revesby to deliver the human rights lecture and award the Citizen for Humanity Certificate for their excellence in learning about human rights issues in Australia and …
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Submission to the National School Curriculum Review
14 February 2014 The National Council for Human Rights Education (ACHRE) has drafted a submission to the he National School Curriculum Review that was announced by Minister for Education The Hon. Christopher Pyne in January 2014. The Inquiry conducted under the leadership of Dr Kevin Donnelly and Professor Ken Wiltshire. The ACHRE submission is …
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Children given right to bring complaints before UN Committee
12 February 2014 The Australian Council for Human Rights Education (ACHRE) welcomes establishment of a new complaints mechanism under the UN Convention on Rights of Child. On 14 January 2014, Costa Rica became the tenth state to ratify the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, …
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Submission to the Australia China Dialogue
10 February 2014 ACHRE has made a formal submission to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the 15th Australia-China Dialogue that will be held in Beijing, China on 21 February 2014. This dialogue, which was established in 1997, provides an important forum for open and frank discussions on human rights, and for identifying …
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Final program and report from IHRE conference in Taiwan in 2013
6 January 2014 See Conference Report here: IHRE 2013 CONFERENCE REPORT See Conference Program here: IHRE TAIPEI 2013 CONFERENCE PROGRAM – final
UN Security Council Civil Society Consultations
12 December 2013 Report can be viewed here
Celebrating 10 Years Anniversary on Human Rights Day
10 December 2013 The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University has celebrated its 10th Anniversary on 10 December 2013. The centre was established in 2003 with the generous donation by a Japanese philanthroper Dr Haruhisa Handa. Dr Eric Tan AM, then Chancellor of the Curtin University and President of the National Committee for …
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