Mental Health & Wellbeing

Recognising the potential and importance of the Built Environment as a strategic sector to building better solutions with multi-disciplinary teams for the Mental Health & Wellbeing of all communities and related intersectional issues. This is especially so during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.#mentalhealth #wellbeing #sustainabledevelopment #covidhttps://lnkd.in/gZpCmiDm Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) can be a ‘way’ to steer mental …
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INTERNATIONAL WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2021

 – THE POWER OF INCLUSION SUSTAINABLE & ADEQUATE HOUSING: A QUESTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND POLICY REFORM By Jeswynn Yogaratnam The theme this year on ‘INCLUSION’ can be extended to the built environment sector on sustainable homes for refugee and asylum seeker communities. “The World Refugee Day 2021 theme is inclusion, which emphasizes the advantages to both refugees and …
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EMPOWER ME

The past months have seen a renewed focus on how we, as a community, address sexual violence and harassment. recent public scrutiny of institutional responses to sexual violence has drawn close public attention on the issues, and more people have lent their voices to the call for prevention efforts to be strengthened. Sexuality education, proactive …
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Consulate General of Timor Leste

March 29, 2021 “The Invitation to meet with Mr. Luciano Valentim da Conceicao, Consul General of Timor-Leste in Sydney to discuss collaboration on human rights projects was delightful”, says ACHRE committee member Lynda Blanchard. The Consul General spoke of the prospect of a documentary about a significant and untold story of human rights and social …
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Investigating Diversity, Human Rights & Civil Society in Japan & Australia

March 1-14, 2021. The Australian Council for Human Rights Education (ACHRE) has been a collaborative partner in the project Investigating Diversity, Human Rights and Civil Society in Japan and Australia for the past eight years following pilot funding from the Australia-Japan Foundation. Our international partner is Chuo University Japan and students travel to Sydney on …
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INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE DAY 2021 – THE POWER OF INCLUSION

SUSTAINABLE & ADEQUATE HOUSING: A QUESTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND POLICY REFORM The theme this year on ‘INCLUSION’ can be extended to the built environment sector on sustainable homes for refugee and asylum seeker communities. “The World Refugee Day 2021 theme is inclusion, which emphasizes the advantages to both refugees and their host countries of integrating refugee populations into national health, …
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June to September 2021. Ban School Online Education Seminars

Ban School is a series of participatory online sessions for those in Australia and the Pacific who want to dive deeper into the movement for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It will consist of 5 three-weekly 90-minute evening sessions over zoom with a variety of speakers and facilitators. Each session will include …
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