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To celebrate the 61st anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Youth for Human Rights Australia are holding an Art Competition that is open to all year 9 students in Victoria.
MAJOR PRIZE WINNER WILL WIN TRIP FOR TWO TO NEW YORK TO PRESENT THEIR ARTWORK TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The purpose of Youth for Human Rights is
to teach youth and adults, with simple
and understandable communication,
about their basic human rights and the
responsibilities that go with making them
a reality.
(letter to Year 9 Teachers)
Dear teacher,
To ensure these human rights are understood
and carried out by our future generation we
would like you to encourage all your year nine
students to take part in this competition.
WHAT TO DO:
1. Simply watch the Human Rights DVD contained
in this pack with your students and discuss
the issues and topics that arise from their new
understanding of what human rights are.
2. Encourage open discussion on how this affects
or could affect your students or
other people in different cultures around
the world.
3. Then ask the students to choose one human
right that has impacted them the most and
express this in the form of art, (this could also
be a class project). The art can be expressed
in any medium as long as it is easily viewed by
an audience.
4. Once you have decided on whether this is
tackled as a class project or as individual
submissions please let us know in the form of
an email registration and we will forward a
class invitation or individual invitations
as appropriate.
ALL THERE IS LEFT TO DO IS GET CRACKING
ON THE ARTWORK!
Submit the completed artworks to Youth for
Human Rights, (we will communicate the details
as to where to send them in your invitation.)
Submissions will be exhibited at a gallery.
An official opening night will be held with invites
going to all entrants, school representatives, family
and friends. While the art is on display to the
public, an extensive panel of judges will be judging
the art and determining the prize winners.
All these details will be included in
your invite once you have
registered!
The winner of this amazing project
will win:
• A trip for two to New York for the
winning student (and one
companion) to visit the United
Nations. Prize includes airfares,
accommodation and meals.
Other prizes will be awarded for
submissions at the discretion of
our judges.
For more information visit
www.youthforhumanrights.org.au
To enter the competition register via email at artcomp@youthforhumanrights.org.au
Please ensure that you send in the following details so that we can correctly register your entry:
- Name of School
- Content of School (Painting, sculpture, drawing etc...)
- How many Entries
- Sizes of entries
Entries close 1 November, 2009. Together we can all make a difference
Regards,
Joanne Oxenbould
Youth for Human Rights Coordinator
WHERE DO UNIVERSAL RIGHTS BEGIN?
"In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any
maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he
lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works.
Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal
opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning
there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold
them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Widow of the former USA President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Chair of the United Nations Commission that wrote the Universal Declaration in 1948.
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