27 October 2000
"Human Rights,
Human Values"
Youth Challenge 2000
Date:
Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 October 2000
Venue: Monday - Subiaco Theatre Centre, 180 Hamersley Road, Subiaco; Tuesday
- Atrium Hotel, 65 Ormsby Terrace, Mandurah
On Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 October, more than 230 students will take part in Youth Challenge 2000. On Monday, up to 140 students from schools in and around the metropolitan area will take part in a Challenge at the Subiaco Theatre Centre and on Tuesday, 90 students will converge on Mandurah for a second Challenge.
Each daylong seminar will encourage students to examine the links between human rights and responsibilities and to discover how democratic processes can solve human rights infringements. Students will join local community representatives to identify discrimination in a working environment and grapple with solutions which best satisfy human rights principles and the law.
The Challenges will be opened by the executive director of the federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Diana Temby and the West Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner June Williams.
Ms Williams said: "Youth Challenge 2000 brings together students from a broad cross section of WA schools to focus on real life issues, such as sex and race discrimination, and the respective rights and responsibilities of employers and employees."
"The WA Youth Challenge will pay particular attention to sex and race discrimination in the workplace as well as sexual harassment, all common grounds for complaints to anti-discrimination bodies. The seminar will be presented in an entertaining, interactive and provocative way that encourages students to think for themselves about issues likely to confront them."
Ms Temby said: "The Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to confront and stimulate debate on issues that many people deal with in everyday working life. Although this generation has grown up with anti-discrimination law, it should not be assumed they will automatically abide by it or that they have a deep understanding of the rights and responsibilities of individuals."
"I hope this course will give them a good grounding in human rights and equal opportunity to take into the workplace with them."
Youth Challenge 2000 is a human rights education program sponsored by the Federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the WA Equal Opportunity Commission.
To interview:
Diana Temby, contact Janine MacDonald on (02) 9284 9880
June Williams, contact her office on (08) 9216 3955
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and Equal Opportunity Commission. Last updated 2 December 2001.
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