Human Rights Education in the School Curriculum Published
The all important report Human Rights Education in the School Curriculum has been published.The report was produced by Dr Nina Burridge, Executive Member of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education and Co-Director of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at  the University of Technology, Sydney, and her team.

The reports documents the first national Australian investigation on the place of human rights education in our schools across Australia and concludes that “Australia has still not achieved a systematic and integrated approach to human rights education. Whole school approaches to human rights remain the exception, and the implementation of human rights education initiatives is largely dependent on the interest and goodwill of individual teachers.”  /…/  “In absence of an effective integration of human rights education into the new national curriculum, Australian schools are likely to continue to find it difficult to prioritise human rights issues to the extent necessary to have a sustained impact on student learning”.

This important report needs to be brought into attention to our politicians and in particular Education Ministers both on Federal and State level.

HRE-Report

AHRC reports on the new LGBTI protections from discrimination

Kingswood Public School – feedback

2013-06-17 Human Rights Under Labor opinion piece – final as published

2nd National Settlement Conference Creating Our Future, Adelaide
It was a pleasure to participate in the above conference.
Conference program cover and my short address Education Is The Rock On Which Community Capacity Is Builtare provided below.

2012-06-27 CREATING OUR FUTURE CONFERENCE PROGRAM ADELAIDE

2012-06-27 Speech for CREATING OUR FUTURE CONF 2012 Adelaide

Keynote to the NATIONAL MEDIATION CONFERENCE 2012 “Emerging dynamics in mediation – new thinking, new practices and new relationships”

Sev participated in the above conference and delivered a keynote; see:

• Conference Program Cover: 2  012-09-11 National Mediation Conference Program
• Keynote address “Australia – emergence of a modern nation built on diversity and ‘fair go’”. (in printed form);   2012-11.01 – FAIR GO – Published
• link to the talk as delivered (audio) : http://www.leadr.com.au/podcasts/sev-ozdowski-nmc12.mp3

Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC, Governor of Queensland, launched a book entitled: Activating Human Rights and Peace – Theories, Practices and Contexts that was edited by Professor Goh Bee Chen, Associate Professor Baden Offord and Mr Rob Garbutt and published by Ashgate Publishing in England at Queensland Government House in Brisbane on 24^th October 2012.

The book is a collection of papers presented at The Activating Human Rights and Peace International Conference in Byron Bay, 1-4 July 2008.  My conference keynote address “Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics” was published as Chapter 9 in the book (pp. 119-141).

FREE CHINA: The Courage to Believe tells the powerful stories of two individuals who stood up to the Chinese communist government for their beliefs. For taking their stance, they were imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese government.

Since its completion earlier this year, FREE CHINA: The Courage to Believe has won major awards at film festivals. After seeing this film, Margaret Chew Barringer, founder of www.AmericanINSIGHT.org, commented: “I hope this film changes our world.”

It is a remarkably moving film. See attached for screening details.

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