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Human Rights Australia's(YHRA) focus is to teach
the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights(UDHR) to young
people everywhere so that they know and insist
on their rights and those of others. Realizing
that the Declaration had to be made available
in a form understandable to the young, in March
2002 Youth Human Rights International(YHRI)
released the English-language edition of What
Are Human Rights? This booklet contains
a simplified version of the Declaration written
especially for children. Instantly popular with
teachers, government officials, community and
religious leaders, not to mention the children
themselves, What Are Human Rights? has
already been translated into 21 languages. It
has routinely proven to be very successful in
helping children understand why human rights
are vital.
In 2004, YHRI released UNITED,
a street-savvy, five-minute film that has
won more than a dozen awards for its moving
portrayal of how human rights awareness can
curb violence and intolerance. UNITED, in
turn, inspired the UNITED Human Rights
Handbook and the 30 public service announcements
that articulate the key concepts of every
article of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
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YHRA’s current
and future projects include the following:
- Encouraging educators to start reaching human
rights using the UNITED Human Rights Handbook,
the PSAs, UNITED and What Are Human Rights?
- Encouraging government to incorporate the teaching
of human rights into school curricula
- Broadcasting of the 30 PSAs by TV stations all
over the world.
- Assisting youth and adults to start new human
rights chapters.
- Distributing the booklet.
- Distributing the UNITED human rights music video
to schools, communities, youth organizations and
others.
- Encouraging artists to produce and donate children’s
murals with human rights themes.
- Lectures to schools and youth groups.
- Holding Youth Forums to educate youth on their
human rights.
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