Seminars
A Human Rights Act for Australia?
On 24 March 2009, PILCH and the Victorian Council of Social Services hosted a workshop for community organisations on the National Human Rights Consultation. The workshop explained the consultation process and identified how individuals can get involved. It examined the current system for the protection and promotion of human rights, and workshopped how a national Human Rights Act might better protect and promote the rights of marginalised or disadvantaged people.
For workshop materials, click here.
Humans and the Environment
On 6 May 2009, the Environmental Defenders Office, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre and PILCH conducted a joint workshop on Human Rights and the Environment. As well as discussing how to be involved in the National Consultation, the workshop examined how human rights are relevant to the environment and climate change.
For workshop materials, click here.
A Human Rights Act for Australia?
On 21 May 2009, PILCH and the Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PCLC) hosted a similar workshop on the National Consultation in Mornington.
For workshop materials, click here.
Homelessness and Human Rights
Between March and May 2009, the Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic (HPLC) conducted workshops with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness
Between March and May 2009, the Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic (HPLC) conducted workshops with people experiencing or at risk of homelesssness about human rights in Australia.
The aims of the HPLC's workshops were:
- to ensure that people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are provided with targeted and accessible information about the National Human Rights Consultation so that they are equipped to engage directly witth the consultation process, including by making written submissions; and
- to collect information and data about the relationship betweeen homelessness and human rights in Australia. The information and data was collated and used in the HPLC's human rights campaigning and to inform its submission in response to the National Human Rights Consultation.