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School Action Group Activism

Student activists have always been at the frontlines of human rights movements: from standing in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square to petitioning governments to abolish the death penalty. Students are there.

Join the social justice movement and get your school involved in defending human rights! Register as an Amnesty International Australia School Action Group now!

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School Action Pack

Your School Action Pack is here! This pack offers ideas for actions and activities on some of the most important human rights issues going on in the world today. From calling on Viet Nam to abolish the death penalty, to making a stand against poverty, you'll find loads of activities to help your School Action Group to defend human rights!

Either download the whole School Action Pack here or check out each of the modules below.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 60!

On December 10, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns sixty. And Amnesty International wants to party! So let’s celebrate the UDHR's birth and make sure everyone can be part of its future.

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Death Penalty: The Ultimate Punishment

Death is not a sentence. It's a full stop.

If you've done something wrong, you don't give up your human rights. Human rights protect everybody, universally. Otherwise, they are useless. And every person has the right to life. No exceptions. Yet every day, men, women and even children, face execution. Whatever they’ve done, whether they are guilty or innocent, they will be killed.

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Poverty: Stand Up and Take Action!

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a child will be dead from extreme poverty because their basic human rights were not met. In an hour that is 1,200 dead children.

In an hour, an Australian parking metre makes more money than 2.74 billion people make in an entire day. Poverty is a violation of human rights. And it kills.

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Stop Violence Against Women: It’s in Our Hands

Statistics have revealed that in Australia, one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. One in three. Look around. It affects someone you know.

Violence against women affects all of us, women and men, alike. So, it takes the efforts of all to work against it. Hear the cries, open your eyes and speak out. Silence is fatal.

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