Your first School Action Pack of the year is here! Read about some of the most pressing human rights issues in Australia and the world. Show you care and make a difference by taking part in the suggested actions. You could even win a prize! Either download the whole pack or check out each of the modules below:

Australia is the only liberal democracy without formal human rights protection. All those rights we think we have and take for granted (like the right to peaceful assembly) simply don't exist in law. We need a Human Rights Act. Now!

“For [Australians], symbolism is important but, unless the great symbolism of reconciliation is accompanied by an even greater substance, it is little more than a clanging gong. It is not sentiment that makes history; it is our actions that make history.” Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, 13 February 2008

Violence against women or girls is a form of power and control. It stems from gender discrimination and the belief that men are entitled to control women and exercise power over them. It might not be overt. It might not always take the form of physical violence. It is the name calling, the control of finances, the threats. It is anything that stops a woman from living her life in freedom, safety and dignity.

Asylum is a human right. Remote detention for asylum seekers is not the answer. It's time for a real solution.

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

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.

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're useless.

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.

Poverty is a violation of human rights. And it kills.

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. Hear the cries, open your eyes and speak out. Silence is fatal.