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Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education

Locality: Bentley, Western Australia

Phone: Australia 9266 1678

Address: Kent Street 6102 Bentley, WA, Australia

Website: http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/

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25.01.2022 An important message from refugee friends in Indonesia about how we can help grow their refugee-led education. Please consider supporting this incredibly important, one-of-a-kind initiative!

25.01.2022 For those in Perth - this Friday is the 30th Annual Silent Domestic Violence Memorial March.

25.01.2022 Each year on 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness around the globe that suicide can be prevented. Listening, care and learning are key to this. "I'm glad you exist." Everyone has a role to play in preventing suicide. We can all make a difference in the lives of those who might be struggling by having regular, meaningful conversations about life's ups and downs. People don't need to be a clinician, GP, or nurse to check in... with someone they are worried about just a good friend and a great listener. https://rosesintheocean.com.au/wspd-2020/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxcw68q3Vf0 See more

25.01.2022 "Australia is a beautiful country with great artists and writers but it is also a country where brutality and suffering are interwoven into the sociocultural fabric, ingrained in the soul of the nation. People like me represent a part of its unofficial history, a history that is full of trauma and violence." - Behrouz Boochani

25.01.2022 Gender Diverse Rights are Human Rights "Gender diverse young people exist, and their genders are not able to be suppressed, converted or reprogrammed"

24.01.2022 HRXHR Human Rights x Human Responsibility - Week 22 Social Security... This week we invite you to shift into the final phase of the campaign focusing on human responsibilities. The world is faced with a moment of reckoning that is redefining the way the states and business owners operate. Unemployment has risen, many casual workers, including temporary visa holders, asylum seekers on bridging visas and students, are laid off. Employers are no longer financially buoyant to support them. More people are relying on social security more than ever, and while governments worldwide have rallied, long term security feels like a fragile prospect. While this is particularly true for countries already struggling pre-Covid to meet the basic social security responsibilities for all people, it is happening increasingly in the first world. For many who rely on social security for their ongoing wellbeing, the situation is particularly devastating. Homelessness, and the lack of ability to afford food and medication is rising and mental health issues are increasing. The United Nations has described this situation as a shadow pandemic'. In these unprecedented times, we seek to lean into the premise at the core of the Human Rights x Human Responsibilities project: that human rights and human responsibilities are inextricably inter-related, not only for governments, but for every citizen in the world. If I have rights, I have a responsibility to ensure that you also have rights. To read more, click the full article below: Read more at this weeks blog: https://www.hrxhr.org/blog/article22 Go to the Contribute section (https://www.hrxhr.org/contribute) and join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrxhr/?source_id=1905799886299383) to have your say.

24.01.2022 Remembering and honouring our dear friend and colleague Anna Winther. We remember her wonderful sense of humour, incredible eye for style and detail, intelligence, and fierce passion for making this world a better place.

23.01.2022 Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography as a critical, creative methodology. The book centres around the traditional practice of wayfinding as a Pacific indigenous way of being and knowing, and this volume manifests traditional knowledges, genealogies, and intercultural activist voices through critical autoethnography. https://www.routledge.com/.../Iosefo.../p/book/9780367343798

23.01.2022 In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers find strength in their voices and what is important to them. 'maar bidi' is a journey into what it is to be young, a person of colour and a minority in divergent and conflicting worlds. Congratulations to the writers Angelica, Serena-May, Savannah, Connie, Mabel, Danny, Nancy, Jarrad and Brianne.

23.01.2022 Come and study with us! Be Inspired. Become or expand your abilities to be a social justice and equality change-maker in the world. Consider enrolling in our Master of Human Rights, with fabulous face to face classes in Perth, or online. https://study.curtin.edu.au//course-pg-master-of-human-ri/ This course is suited to human rights workers, those who want to work in the human rights field, professionals who wish to apply human rights principles to their practice, development workers, non-government organisation workers, activists, teachers, mediation and conflict workers, and community workers.

22.01.2022 "Multiple belongings are nurtured by cultural encounters but they are not only the preserve of people who travel. It is an attitude, a way of thinking, rather than the number of stamps on your passport. It is about thinking of yourself, and your fellow human beings, in more fluid terms than solid categories. A human being, every human being, is boundless and contains multitudes."

22.01.2022 HRXHR Human Rights x Human Responsibility - Week 20 The right to public assembly... Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and that no one may be compelled to belong to an association. This week HRXHR invited Marziya Mohammedali, a talented photographer, poet, educator, designer and artist, based in Boorloo (Perth) to share a selection of their favourite images of protests they have captured and documented. Fo to the blog link to read Marziyas commentary and see the selection of photos. Marziyas work focuses on narratives of dissent, identity, migration and transition. They have documented several protest movements across a wide range of issues, exploring the spaces that are not always covered in protest art, and sharing the stories found there. More of their work can be found at facebook.com/kikeidotnet Respond to the questions. In the language of your choice, in the media that you choose. Words, art, photos, video. - How can you amplify absent or unheard voices? - What does protest mean to you? Wed love you to share a protest photo with us. - Do you feel safe to peacefully gather? - Are there times in which you or your community has not felt safe to assemble? Go to the Contribute section (https://www.hrxhr.org/contribute) and join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrxhr/?source_id=1905799886299383) to have your say.

21.01.2022 I am Mardin. I am a refugee; someone who is asking for protection. Just imagine you risked your life striving to cross the all-encompassing ocean in a boat; to journey here with all the multifarious difficulties that it involves. To arrive in Australian territory. However, you are not a normal human being. They incarcerate you. Why?

19.01.2022 An important vigil this Friday.

19.01.2022 Misty is a non-binary first-generation Australian of Anglo-Indian ethnicity. Duc is a Vietnamese-Australian who, as a toddler, arrived in Australia with her family under a refugee program. Both of us have lived experience of mental health problems. Therefore, as activists with multiple intersecting identities, we aim to interrogate white privilege, class discrimination, ableism and male privilege, to progress our work for all community members. http://archermagazine.com.au//bi-visibility-in-western-a/

18.01.2022 Creating a podcast as part of a series on issues impacting LGBTIQ+ identified individuals and communities. The human rights and social justice project is led by Dr Deb Hunn, Dr Bri McKenzie and Dr Madison Magladry. Pictured below in this podcast on queering human rights, intersectionality, power, identity, lived experience and higher education (left to right) Dr Madison Magladry (interviewer), Dr Joni Lariat (early career researcher), Marziya Mohammedali (PhD researcher and activist) and Professor Baden Offord (Director, CHRE).

18.01.2022 We are dismayed to see that the contentious higher education Bill has been passed by the government. It will mean the cost of humanities degrees will soar. We reprise this article by the Director of the CHRE, Professor Baden Offord, who warns that diminishing the humanities, arts, communication and social sciences will be at our peril. "The humanities inculcate the very essence of doing human rights and social justice work through fostering dialogue for being, by helping us t...o realise that the other is always inside. These are not mere add-ons or afterthoughts to have sit or remain in the margins of a civilised society. They are central concerns, crucial to our survival as a species, as individuals, as a society. Where do we learn how to challenge authority and question the status quo? To understand the socio-cultural and political landscape with its intricacies and grapple with issues such as race, disability, sexuality, age, class and gender? To find ways of living on this planet sustainably by asking difficult and hard questions about what is needed for humanity’s co-existence and co-survival? To end poverty and economic degradation for all people through principles of equity and access? Such things are learned through philosophy, history, literature, religion, art, music, media, cultural studies and languagewe ignore them at our own peril." See more

17.01.2022 Trans rights are human rights. "The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 2020 survey found that one in five trans and intersex people had been physically or sexually attacked in the previous five years -- double the rate for other LGBTQ groups."

17.01.2022 INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his spiritual son and the Dalai Lama his science guru. A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohms profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the universe and our place within it are truly far-reaching. Why was this revolutionary thinker shunned by mainstream scientists of his day? Watch free until 30 September.

17.01.2022 We’re happy to support this upcoming event on International Human Rights Day.

16.01.2022 Each week this year we present #chrelights, a dedicated post to someone we respect and admire, who makes a difference by doing more, by saying more, by their actions, practice and words. This week we feature Jasmyn Yavu-Kama, a Noongar Whadjuk Ballardong Yorga and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Team Member of the Nutha Way Program (formerly Lore / Law Program). Based in and around the goldfields in Western Australia, Nutha Way aims to support a reduction in... the high rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth contact with the WA justice system in the long-term through culturally robust strategies which provide capacity building for young people. Have a listen to Jasmyn and Nick van Hattem, President of the Law Society of WA, speak with radio presenter Jodi Hoffman about the Nutha Way Program and the reason for the programs name change on Noongar Radio (5 August 2020, interview starts at 29.37 minutes). Some snippets from the interview: we all have the same vision basically, we want to create these preventative measures so that were not having a revolving door with the justice system with our youth. we both have that aim of sharing our peoples stories, and their opinions and their views and being with Millennium Kids were going out with kids on country, were going out with the police and were recording and documenting these positive relationships forming #chrelights #socialjustice #humanrights #allbeings

15.01.2022 Connecting. Caring. Listening.

15.01.2022 Make no mistake, this move to remove mobile phones is about silencing us. But hear our voices loud and clear! We will not stop fighting the policies that affect us! #ShameAlanTudge #RefugeeVoices #RefugeeLedChange

15.01.2022 "They are not passive human beings, the themes they express are forms of defiance. They are not merely playing their guitars, their music is essentially a political act. For them, music is the language with which they can fight for their human rights human rights that have been violated. Music is the language with which they can determine their personhood in the face of a system that aims to control them. Their works are ways of asserting their identity and existence; they are expressing their independence and individuality. Through this form of musical resistance they are able to survive."

15.01.2022 DESIGN JUSTICE Sasha Costanza-Chock's book (MIT Press: 2020), Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, is now freely available online at http://design-justice.pubpub.org! An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.... Sasha asks, you like it, please do: - buy a copy from an indy bookstore - write a review somewhere online - add to syllabi

14.01.2022 The Truth about Thanksgiving.

14.01.2022 HRXHR Human Rights x Human Responsibility - Week 23 Worker's rights... This week HRXHR collaborated with a collection of union leaders in Western Australia. Heres what they had to say, and the resources they shared with us: It is hard to imagine a working person in Australia who has not been impacted by COVID19. Economic contraction triggered by the pandemic has seen Australia enter its first recession in almost 30 years. Unemployment has risen to 2.2 points to 7.5% and workers share of income is at a 61-year low, with a record 2.5% drop in total wages. Health and care workers have found themselves on the frontline of the battle against the virus. Organisations have had to dramatically adapt their ways of working to ensure the safety of their employees and the broader public. In some industries, businesses have had to permanently or temporarily close, resulting in job losses for those who work within them and exposing the vulnerability of people in casual and contract employment. This week we are shining a light on organisations and campaigns that are ensuring the safety and upholding the rights of working people through the COVID pandemic. To read more, click the full article below: Read more at this weeks blog: https://www.hrxhr.org/blog/article23 Go to the Contribute section (https://www.hrxhr.org/contribute) and join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrxhr/?source_id=1905799886299383) to have your say.

12.01.2022 Nanaia Mahuta has been appointed Aotearoa/NZ's Foreign Minister.

12.01.2022 The stories of people seeking asylum are supposed to end. But in Australia, people who arrive by boat are seldom able to finish their story. Right now there are 30,000 people living in Australia who are being denied their right to permanent protection. 30,000 people whose stories you haven’t yet heard. Temporary is a new eight-part narrative podcast from the UNSW Centre for Ideas and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and co-produced with Guardian Australia.

12.01.2022 "Let's be real, I'd love not to have to mark a day specifically recognising the contributions of people living with disability. It should be done every day of the year. But that's also naive. Society simply isn't at a point where we should just let the day go by without making a statement. My personal experience and reporting on the public hearings of the disability royal commission have taught me that while significant progress has been made in recognising and valuing people... living with disability, it's still not good enough. Many in my community live below the poverty line. We experience violence, discrimination and struggles with mental health and unemployment on a widespread scale. And our Indigenous brothers and sisters face double the disadvantage. My reporting role feels very much part of the change." See more

12.01.2022 Australian story https://m.youtube.com/watch

11.01.2022 The Uluru Statement from the Heart Update event took place on 24 August, 2020, as part of the 2020 Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival. The session was hosted by Noongar Elder and Danjoo Koorliny leader, Professor Colleen Hayward. She was joined by Professor Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman and constitutional law expert, who was one of the principle designers of the constitutional dialogues that delivered the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and the firs...t to read it in public at a ceremony after the convention. They were also joined by local Noongar representatives, Sally-Anne Gamble and Ezra Jacobs-Smith, and Professor Fiona Stanley AC, with live artwork by Jade Dolman and Shenali Perera. This session is one of many events happening throughout August and September (Djilba), as part of the 2020 Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival. The Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Project is an initiative designed and led by Noongar leaders to help us all walk together as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people towards 2029 (200 years of colonisation in Perth) and beyond, be it in Western Australia, Australia or globally. The leaders of Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together are Dr Noel Nannup OAM, Dr Richard Walley OAM, Professor Emeritus Colleen Hayward AM and Carol Innes, working in partnership and collaboration with numerous other Elders, leaders and organisations. The Danjoo Koorliny Social Impact Festival is an annual event that brings us together to see what has shifted in the last year and ensure it sets our focus for the year(s) ahead. More details can be found here: https://www.danjookoorlinysocialimpactfestival.com/

11.01.2022 Transforming discourse: Media, Aboriginal aspirations and agreement-making Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/transforming-discourse-medi

10.01.2022 "It is not so easy to anticipate what is ahead of us. If students don't get a strong education in theoretical basics they will not be as prepared to adapt to the future when it turns out to be different from what today's politicians imagine it will be."

10.01.2022 "The man, who fled civil war violence and has never met his son, extraordinarily distressed by treatment and fears being detained indefinitely."

09.01.2022 "The 18th annual Taiwan LGBT Pride parade took place in the streets of Taipei yesterday afternoon, showcasing the diversity of Taiwanese society and urging the public to understand, accept and respect people with different identities and sexual desires. As the parade reached adulthood and turned 18 this year, the theme was to support and help others fulfill their cherished dreams (), a Chinese proverb which can also be understood as adulthood beauty. The Taiwan Rainbow Civil Action Association, which organized the event, said it hopes that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning and asexual communities would not only become more visible in society, but would be understood and respected by more people."

09.01.2022 "Moving Mountains - The Intersection of Faith and Activism" DISRUPTED FESTIVAL 2020 - 7th November Does a better world include religion? What contribution are people of faith making on the big issues of climate change, economic justice, decolonisation and inclusive communities? This interfaith panel brings together people who are passionate about their faith and are actively working for a better world for everyone. In defiance of the typical image of religious people as staid and conservative, this panel will discuss how faith drives people to work for justice and peace, sometimes at great personal cost. Tickets for this event: https://disrupted.slwa.wa.gov.au/events20/moving-mountains

09.01.2022 Everyone should be afforded an equal opportunity to access the services and support they need, such as education, housing and healthcare. One Nation NSW’s Religion Bill threatens this. That’s why we’re joining with civil society organisations in endorsing this statement, calling for laws that protect all of us, equally. www.protectusall.com.au

09.01.2022 The Australian government could further demonstrate genuine contrition by offering resettlement pathways to Australia for the victims’ families. This would provide more security and protection, opportunities of education and employment for these people than money in Afghanistan could ever guarantee.

08.01.2022 Australian Story tonight.

08.01.2022 In 1966, two hundred Gurindji, Mudburra and Warlpiri people took a stand against their oppressors and won. The defiant act of protest is known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, a strike led by Vincent Lingiari that was a catalyst for the passing of Aboriginal Land Rights legislation in Australia. Its a story all of us should know, but few of us are taught. Thats why filmmaker Ben McFadyen (These Wild Eyes) worked with The Gurindji Aboriginal Incorporation to produce NGUMPIN KARTIYA Untold Stories of the Gurindji people and the Wave Hill Walk-Off. Ngumpin Katiya translates to Whitefella Blackfella, which is a well-known Warumpi Band song, and an important theme for the Gurindji people and the annual Freedom Day Festival, which is also documented in the film.

07.01.2022 "New Zealand’s first African MP has reduced politicians to tears telling the story of his journey of hope from a war-torn Eritrea to a Sudanese refugee camp and eventually into government as a Labour MP. I’m an Eritrean. I’m a former refugee. I’m a Muslim. I’m a trade unionist and a living-wage advocate. But most importantly I stand here before you today as a Kiwi bursting with pride, Ibrahim Omer said in his maiden speech following October’s election."

07.01.2022 This talk starts approx. 5 mins in.

06.01.2022 This wonderful piece of writing appeared in The West Australian on Saturday 11 October 1952. I am not aware of the authors identity. Trigger Warning: does con...tain some archaic language and generalisations which may be deemed offensive due to the era in which it was written. Not Slaves - Not Citizens Shock and sorrow turned to bitterness and despair as the imported beasts of the early settler scattered the game and ate the berries and seeds of our Aboriginal foremothers and forefathers, and the white people invaded their sacred places, paraded their cherished and sacred things before women and wondered why they ran away with their hands covering their eyes, voided their lives of all that was traditional, and beautiful* and made their songs and ceremonial dances empty and meaningless*. Spiritual misery* and physical starvation stalked where formerly there was happiness and, at least, enough for all. And then came Christianity, and with it rum and tobacco and sometimes bullets and poisoned flour. If you poison us, do we not die? You did poison our forefathers, and they did die. Yes, we know it was because they stole the flour of the early settlers, but what would you, my masters? It mattered not that whole families ate the baited flour and died in agony so long as the culprit thief was caught and "punished." They hungered for meat and helped themselves to the cattle and sheep of the early settlers and for this they were sometimes shot just to "teach them a lesson" or, in more merciful moments, brought in chains before the white man's courts and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on the infamous Rottnest Island where hundreds, unable to bear the physical and spiritual divorce from their kith and kin and from the beloved "country" of their Dreamtime ancestors, died miserable and lonely deaths. But you; dear readers, are not the "early settlers," and we are not our forefathers. Some of your men lay with some of our women and as a result, here are we. I wonder how many social butterflies there are who could look at one of us and-say, with the sage: "There but for the Grace of God, go I?" We are the blood relations of many of your readers, let that not be forgotten, and it is not of our choosing that we are. Few people have been as much maligned as we and with less reason. We do not want special dispensation from your laws, nor do we want special laws passed on our behalf. We do not want discrimination of any kind, favourable or otherwise, so long as consistency is observed in matters affecting our interests and welfare. We do want to be treated like other human beings, to be given the opportunity to rear and educate our children in proper homes and in good schools. At present we are being given a good education, but that is beginning in the middle. It is not our fault that we are forced to live as so many of us are living in squalid huts and humpies on native reserves. That is your fault. You took our land away from our forefathers, all of it, and all you gave them in return was the "right" to live on unwatered, unlighted, barren or swampy reserves always situated well outside the boundaries of your cities and towns. You did not teach our men to build houses and yet you criticised them for not doing so, on land which was not theirs. You placed the reserves on or near sanitary and rubbish dumps, with no proper provision for cleaning our bodies and our clothes and then complained, publicly, that we were smelly and shabby. You taught your children to snub and shun ours at school and in the street, to call us "blackies" and "n*****s" and forebade them to play with us or associate with us out of school. You did these things and then added insult to injury by insisting that we be removed from the streets at sundown and sent back to the dark, dank reserves and then criticised our young people if they "got into trouble." It may be significant that we are not sent out of town during the daylight hours when the shops are open and we have money to spend; the shopkeepers wouldn't like that, would they? We do not seek revenge, but we do seek "a fair go," which all Australians demand and do not hesitate to turn their country upside down to get. We have soap and use it; some of us also now have education, and we intend to use that, too, if it will help our people to get what is rightfully theirs. Later, with your consent and assistance, we will tell you more about the rotten legislation that purports to be drawn up for our welfare but which in fact and in effect treats us as no other legislation anywhere in the world today treats any dependant coloured minority. You may exclude South Africa; there the whites are in the minority "hinc iliac lachrymae" [here passes tears]. And our legislation here in Western Australia is becoming worse, not better. Do you know that there is a proposal to introduce amending legislation in the current session of the State Parliament which, if it succeeds, will have the effect of taking away from thousands of our people a protection in the Courts they have enjoyed for 50 years and which is merely parallel to a similar protection afforded whites charged with an offence? And do you know that it is designed merely to make it easier for the police to get convictions against "natives" who will, if it is passed, convict themselves out of their own mouths whether guilty or otherwise? If not, you should, because the Police Union's resolution was published in The West Australian and it has been announced by a Minister of the Crown that the Evidence Act is to be amended for the purpose mentioned. Is this supposed to be symptomatic of Government policy or are we to understand that some members of Cabinet regard it as being a step towards "assimilation"? We know the politician often "moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform," and that his path is often as devious and tortuous as the workings of his mind, but if assimilation means removing all measures which assist and protect us while maintaining a solid front against giving us citizenship rights, then away with assimilation we say. Which also reminds me. Are you aware that the amendment to the Citizenship Act passed last year has made it more difficult than ever before for us to get citizenship rights, even when we are prepared to have our characters stripped bare in public by making application for them? Formerly we were required to satisfy only a magistrate of our worthiness, but now it is a "board" consisting of a magistrate and, in most cases, a member of the local authority in the district in which we reside. We have already told you what local authorities think of us. We hope to have something more to say on this subject later, but meantime the question I want to ask is: "Do our guardians in the Government regard this as progress and is it supposed to help us towards social and economic assimilation into the white community?" If so, we will want someone to help us and the need will be an urgent one not only on our behalf but also in the interests of our children and your children and their children's children, for posterity will surely suffer. And above all remember that we are "hurt by the same weapons" that hurt you and yours and that when you prick us, we bleed. Notes: where the asterisks are place show generalisations that have been considered (and are) offensive and for this I apologise.

05.01.2022 Please see below for the Migrant Blood-borne Virus and Sexual Health Survey (MiBSS) which aims to understand how overseas-born people living in Australia think and act in relation to sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses. Feel free to share within your networks! MiBSS is an ARC funded Curtin University project in partnership with Ethnic Communities Council of WA; ECCQ - Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland; Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health; Relationships Australia South Australia. CHRE academics Baden Offord and Lisa Hartley are investigators. Find out more - https://www.mibss.org/

05.01.2022 This gives a good insight into the current entanglement of African Studies in General and Ethiopia Studies in particular with colonial knowledge by CHRE teacher and researcher Dr Yirga Woldeyes.

04.01.2022 The Perth Global Shapers and OxfamUWA are hosting an interactive panel discussion to discuss the long-term economic impact climate change will have on Australias economy, our well-being, and the costs of transitioning towards renewables and the tangible actions we could take to reduce our carbon footprint and help shape policy. The event will be live-streamed on FB on the 10th of September, 5 pm - 6.30 pm (Perth time)

04.01.2022 CHRE's Director, Baden Offord, presented a keynote on "The Relevance of the Humanities and Arts in Uncertain Times" at the Barcelona Conference on Education on 19 September, hosted by the University of Barcelona and International Academic Forum (Japan). The video starts approx. 9 mins in with an introduction by Dr Maarten Rennes, University of Barcelona. The talk by Baden is related to his short essay that appeared in Arena earlier this year: https://arena.org.au/towards-inanition-diminishing-the-hum/

04.01.2022 The Centre for Human Rights Education is pleased to announce that the 2020 Annual Human Rights Lecture on "Race, Gender, and Black Lives Don’t Matter in the Age of COVID," will be delivered by lawyer and humanitarian, Dean and Distinguished Bessie Dutton Murray Professor, Adrien K. Wing from the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Wing's talk will be live streamed from the United States on FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER Livestream (online) start times: WA: 9.30am... NT: 11.00am QLD: 11.30am SA: 12.00pm NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS: 12.30pm Please register to participate on the link below.

03.01.2022 Know My Name Virtual Conference 10-13 November Delivered virtually over four afternoons and two evenings, the Know My Name Conference celebrates all women as artists, activists, researchers, intellectuals and mentors now and into the future. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse voices, the event will bring together leading and emerging Australian and international voices from arts and academia to share ideas, insights and creative practice. Ticket Details: https://nga.gov.au/knowmyname/conference.cfm

03.01.2022 HRXHR Human Rights x Human Responsibility - Week 21 The right to democracy... For this week HRXHR partnered with Rights x Tech, a forum for technologists and activists focussed on justice and human rights. Sabrina Hersi Issa, Human Rights Technologist and Rights x Tech Director writes: We are all due sanctuary and we are all due peace but we are living through an era where the continuing chaos of crises are ripping these rights out from our grasps. It is the ultimate form of kleptocracy when stewards of governments around the world undermine democracy by perpetuating and expanding the cascading traumas of a global pandemic. The instability is destabilizing, and as bad actors exploit these precarious conditions to grab power, our right to participate in democracy and our right to safety and belonging hang in the balance. Read more at this weeks blog: https://www.hrxhr.org/blog/article21 Go to the Contribute section (https://www.hrxhr.org/contribute) and join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrxhr/?source_id=1905799886299383) to have your say.

02.01.2022 Statement in Support of Mr Julian Assange 31 August 2020 The Centre for Human Rights Education calls for the release of Mr Julian Assange in accordance with national and international law and human rights. We call for an end to the ongoing extradition proceedings and for Mr Assange to be granted his long overdue freedom. ... There are grave concerns for the health of Julian Assange, who is currently held as a remand prisoner in Her Majestys Prison Belmarsh in London. His hearing begins on 7th September. Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has outlined evidence of extensive violations of legal protocol and duty towards Mr Assange. Concerns include that Mr Assange has showed all those symptoms typical of prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma. In Mr Melzers estimation, extradition to the USA would not culminate in a fair trial or bring an end to the torture, but likely make it worse and permanent. Amnesty International considers that Mr Assange will not face a fair trial in the USA saying: Amnesty International strongly opposes any possibility of Julian Assange being extradited or sent in any other manner to the USA. There, he faces a real risk of serious human rights violations including possible detention conditions that would amount to torture and other ill-treatment (such as prolonged solitary confinement). and; Prosecuting Julian Assange on these charges could have a chilling effect on the right to freedom of expression, leading journalists to self-censor from fear of prosecution. The Commissioner of Human Rights for the Council of Europe, a 47 nation organisation, has also opposed Assanges Extradition saying: In view of both the press freedom implications and the serious concerns over the treatment Julian Assange would be subjected to in the United States, my assessment as Commissioner for Human Rights is that he should not be extradited. The CHRE urges the Australian Government contact the British and US authorities and demand that the extradition be dropped due to the past, present and future violations of Mr Assanges human rights and right to a fair trial.

02.01.2022 OPEN LETTER TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: BLACK HISTORY MATTERS TOO 6 October 2020 It is over three decades since Edward Said’s book Orientalism took as its epigraph the stark dictum, They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented. In the intervening years, Said’s work has transformed many disciplines in the humanities, but Ethiopian Studies remains dominated by an orientalist approach. At Princeton University, this manifests in scholarship where the ancient texts of Ethiopia are represented and reinterpreted by a scholar who cannot read them in their original language.

01.01.2022 The Community Arts Network (CAN) invites you to a Day of Demonstration! This is happening on Friday, 6 November at ECU Joondalup. It will be a day long immersive experience with artists and change makers demonstrating how arts and creativity is transforming lives and building stronger, more connected communities. Held in person at Edith Cowan University Joondalup and can also be live streamed from anywhere in the world. In the Change Makers sessions, you will learn about the ...political resistance behind Noongar place names, sustainable practice for artists, and championing human rights with a framework for change through the arts. The Creative Hub invites you to watch and make as community artists share their stories and process in interactive workshops including Noongar dollmaking, protest sign making, calligraphy and accessibility in visual arts... plus much, much more. Please follow the website link below for further information and registration.

01.01.2022 This weekend we remember Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech, delivered 57 years ago. And this weekend too, the Sri Lankan, Australian family from [& loved by] the Queensland town of Biloela; mother, father and two young daughters - have been in detention for one full year on Christmas Island.

01.01.2022 Happy Wear It Purple Day!

01.01.2022 HRXHR Human Rights x Human Responsibility - Week 19 Freedom of expression... This week HRXHR worked with the Edmund Rice Centre to shine a light on Article 19, which states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. With the expertise of Channel 10s Marc Cavallaro and a number of our wonderful volunteers and interns, HRXHR invited children to produce their own advertisements expressing what Freedom of Expression means to them. Go to this weeks blog post below to view the adverts. If you want to participate this week, respond to the questions. In the language of your choice, in the media that you choose. Words, art, photos, video. This week were asking: - Do you feel like you are able to express your opinions? - When have you felt like you have not had this right? - How does technology allow us to express our opinions? - When does technology not allow us to express our opinions? Go to the Contribute section (https://www.hrxhr.org/contribute) and join the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrxhr/?source_id=1905799886299383) to have your say.

01.01.2022 Dr Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes invited Emeritus Professor Simon Forrest to give a guest lecture in the Human Rights History across Cultures and Religions class on Monday. Professor Forrest taught on indigenous ways of knowing and becoming in Australia. Part of the class was held at Curtins Yarning Circle where Professor Forrest and students reflected on their connection to land and history.